Online advertising agencies could be about to market hedge funds if a rule proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) receives public endorsement. As widely forecast, SEC Commissioners have voted to seek public consultation on removing nearly 90 years of restrictions on hedge fund
The canny social media manager with his finger on the market’s pulse may be interested to hear that Facebook Inc. is poised to buy Threadsy Inc., the startup software provider behind the celebrated social analytics tool Swaylo. The move paves the way for Facebook to
A recent report from BI Intelligence has analyzed precisely what location based services such as Foursquare are actually all about — and if they can be a genuine business. The report from BI Intelligence has taken a look at just how leaders in the space
Perhaps the largest and busiest startup in the whole of New York is Foursquare. Founded three years ago back in 2009 by Naveen Selvadurai and Dennis Crowley, the location check-in mobile app has so far earned around $70 million, in part thanks to smart mobile
A landmark ruling by a US court has seen electronics giant Apple hailed as victors in its ‘patent war’ with Samsung. The net result of the judgment means more than $12 billion has been wiped from the value of the latter’s shares, as world markets