Audi, BMW, and Daimler have formed a consortium and collectively spent $3.2 billion to acquire HERE, Nokia's mapping division. The transaction, subject to regulatory approval, should close in the first … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Trying to get a leg-up on other social-media management platforms, Falcon Social has partnered with DataSift -- a data collection company with close ties to Madison Avenue. Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley

According to a music trade report, Apple has shared early subscriber numbers with music executives, and the service may be off to a fast start -- under its free trial … Read the full story by Steve Smith

SpotXchange, a supply-side platform (SSP) for programmatic video, and demand-side platform (DSP) AudienceScience on Monday announced a partnership that will open mobile video ad inventory up to a wider base … Read the full story by Ben Frederick

Raising $8 million, WizRocket plans to grow its prescriptive engagement platform, allowing developers to build one mobile app that supports brands and users. Read the full story by Ben Frederick

The reason, says Kirk Parsons, senior director and technology, media and telecom practice leader at J.D. Power, is because the equipment installment plans themselves tend to be more complex (and … Read the full story by Aaron Baar

The Plaintiff, filing for class action status, contends that the company and three of its leaders inflated the value of MDC stock with multiple "false and misleading statements" about the … Read the full story by Steve McClellan

Content quality and quicker page load times continue to gain significance in ranking signals on google.com, but a slew of factors contribute to why some Web site pages rank higher … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Intelligent automation will become the next tool for online advertising through a revival of recurrent neural networks, which will use an internal memory to process sequences of data. Here's how. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan