Author: WTN News

Facebook is waging war against fake Likes, and the results have been profitable. According to Facebook site integrity engineer Matt Jones, the social network has obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers. Spammers tempt unknowing businesses with schemes to boost their Facebook audience by...

SoLoMo Technology — a Madison company that describes itself as “Google analytics for the physical world” — won a pitch competition at the Majestic Theatre on Monday night and a $100,000 check from AOL cofounder Steve Case and his Rise of the Rest Road Tour. “It...

Consumers get all the attention in digital. It is easy to demonstrate digital’s business impact by showing off a mobile app, digital marketing campaign or sharing economy start-up. Digital looks simple in these situations and also for consumers only. Nothing could be further from the...

News broke last night that CareFusion CFN +22.92% Corp., maker of patient safety-focused medical devices like smart infusion pumps and automated medication administration cabinets, was being acquired by medical equipment manufacturer BD (formerly Becton Dickinson & Co.) for $12.2 billion....

IT is experiencing a historic period of "profound change," according to the preliminary results of "35th Annual SIM IT Trends Study," which were announced by The Society for Information Management during a media roundtable earlier this week. The report's high-level results include how the role...

Rackspace will now sell and support Google for Work applications to business customers, just as it already resells and supports hosted Exchange and Sharepoint for business customers. Google, which is pushing its apps into business accounts many of which run Microsoft Office. Rackspace will bill the...

In a world being eaten alive by software, you need to hire more developers. A lot more. Perhaps more importantly, according to former Netflix cloud chief and current Battery Ventures Technology fellow Adrian Cockroft, you need to help to make them productive. Which mostly means you...

Investors loved HP CEO Meg Whitman’s decision to split Silicon Valley icon HP into two different companies. In trading on the stock market, HP’s share price rose 6 percent on Monday after the company made the announcement. But analysts say that, whatever blip comes from short-term...