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On December 4 President Obama signed into law the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. While it deals with funding transportation, the new law also contains a pernicious scheme to raise revenue. It requires the I...

A slew of new online startups is providing small businesses quick loans -- and quietly charging 40%, 60%, 80% and higher APRs in the process.

While much of the talk about Facebook has been around its social network and messaging services, there’s another growing segment that the company is eager to talk about: Facebook at Work. The company has always stuck t...

In part one of our interview with Steve Trotter, the daredevil discussed his sponsorship quest for a third barrel ride over Niagara Falls. If he goes over again, he will become the oldest to do so (he is 54). Here, Trott...

Yahoo Mail has expanded its server-side IMAP support to now include Gmail and Google Apps accounts. In doing so, you’re now able to further consolidate your emails under one umbrella inbox and service. The company hope...

Atlassian, the company behind enterprise software offerings like HipChat, JIRA, and Bitbucket, closed at $27.78 on the Nasdaq after making its debut this morning at $27.67. Yesterday Atlassian sold 22 million shares at $...

Adobe now has 6.16 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company said in its latest (Q4 2015) earnings report, exceeding the roughly 6 million subscriber goal it set for the year. This is a bit surprising. We di...

A new study out today says a surprising proportion of programmatic mobile ad impressions — 34 percent to be exact — is at risk of being fraudulent. Programmatic mobile ads are those served from an exchange to a netwo...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar as Tune’s John Koetsier, Rivet’s Stephanie Carls, and Greg Jarboe, author of YouTube and Video Marketing, duke it out on the best video investment between rivals Facebook and...

Expectations matter most. Your customers, stakeholders, and investors hold you to your future deliverables and how those are measured against your promises. Marisa Myers is performing a reveres spin with Yahoo! in an eff...

SAN FRANCISCO (By Heather Somerville and Dan Levine, Reuters) — State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as indepen...

I have previously written about The Role of a Startup CEO, during the company's early stage of development.  But, if your company hits is stride and starts to materially grow revenues, I thought it was important to talk...

VB INSIGHT: It's the "3-foot device": most peoples' smartphones are never more than three feet away from them. It's the most intimate and individual piece of personal mobile technology most people own. And if you want to...

By Sola Akinola

It seems like other audio boxes that have crossed my path allow for multiroom, multiunit support. So why doesn’t Chromecast Audio? Oh. Wait. It does now! Google announced today that it is releasing a new update for the...

Sometimes, it’s hard to see just how big an impact a new technology will have.

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Why does Magic Leap need another $827M? Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is reportedly raising $...

Google today announced a new program called Smart Goals that’s designed to help businesses optimize their AdWords campaigns to attract site visitors who might actually purchase something. The program uses machine learn...

Google today announced the geographical expansion of its Project Sunroof project for checking how much power your home could collect using a solar array. Starting this week, people in metro areas in Arizona, California, ...

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is reportedly raising $827 million in a third round of funding, according to Forbes. If it succeeds, that will be a strong signal of investor confidence in the fledgling technology, w...

Gradle, the startup behind the Gradle open source build automation software, is announcing today that it has taken on $4.2 million in funding. This is essentially the coming-out party for the startup, which has 35 employ...

After speaking with top brands and platforms (KPCB, Twitter, YouTube, Forrester, Vimeo) in the online video space, here's what your video strategy should like in 2016.