The search for alpha continues. For asset managers and hedge funds, its all about generating alpha-faster, better, smarter. Alternative data for use by asset managers is one of the most rapidly ...

U.S. Bank is using mobile geolocation to address a commonly experienced inefficiency with the advent of online fraud protection: banks blocking non-fraudulent transactions due to assumptions about ...

Twenty-eight percent of U.S. adults use location-based applications such as Facebook, Groupon and Google Maps on their mobile devices, and that number is expected to grow significantly. But a new ...

Urban life is all about locations, and mass transit is the connecting thread between them. Last year, Bay Area Rapid Transit partnered with mobile geolocation service Foursquare to allow straphangers ...

With mobile payments growth progressing slowly thanks to ongoing security concerns and a lack of consumer enthusiasm, MasterCard and PayPal’s Venmo are taking a different route to the top by focusing ...

Microsoft will use geo-positioning startup Navizon to power geolocation for mobile users. Navizon said today in a statement that it had signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to allow the tech ...

Geoloqi, a scrappy software development startup in Portland, Oregon, claims to be re-inventing the way companies build location-aware applications. Here's the story behind the company and geolocation ...

Russia’s search giant Yandex, which is increasingly rolling into new areas as a way to continue expanding its business, has made a small acquisition — to the tune of “several million euros” — focused ...