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Campbell Soup said that bad weather weakened sales of its trademark soup and raised costs of key ingredients such as carrots, driving its shares down 6%.

TransUnion Corp. is testing visual analytics software that lets banks, lenders and other corporate customers analyze their business performance by drawing on data from about 200 million consumers. The new product comes after a technology overhaul that moved TransUnion to open source and Agile development, and cut tech spending as a percent of corporate revenue.

The Bank of Japan’s policies haven’t delivered much economic stimulus yet—except at a Tokyo data-collection startup that is trying to help investors divine the central bank’s next moves.

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Google will soon ban payday-loan ads, but the venture-capital arm of its parent has been investing in payday lender LendUp since before the startup launched in 2012.

Nasdaq Inc., in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, warned that the agency risks a lawsuit if it approves IEX Group Inc.’s bid to become a stock exchange.

General Motors will expand its new car-sharing service to additional urban markets, the latest foray by the auto giant into alternative transportation options in cities where car ownership could be losing favor.

A venture-capital firm launched last year by Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin and a partner has closed its first fund, raising $143.6 million, according to a regulatory filing Thursday.

Showpad NV has raised $50 million to expand its content software beyond sales and marketing teams.

Company led by Elizabeth Holmes has told regulators that all Edison results from 2014 and 2015 were canceled. Theranos has issued tens of thousands of corrected blood-test reports to patients and doctors.

International investigators are examining funds sent to a former senior Goldman Sachs banker from a lawyer with ties to a scandal-embroiled Malaysian investment fund.

Innovation today, "is not as much about the technology, it's about changing the business model," says Michael Nilles, chief digital officer for Schindler Group and chief executive for Schindler Digital Business. "You have to have this protected incubator space at the beginning. Otherwise, normal operational challenges will not allow you to innovate at such a fast pace."

If one’s coworkers are all on the same platform, any alternative will have less utility—even if its features are better. Jeremy Philips on three new books that examine the means by which digital companies try to keep their platform adversaries at bay.

Millennial issues have become a source of income for a host of self-anointed experts who say they can interpret young workers’ whims and aspirations.

Companies no longer race to keep up with one another, so much as they race to keep up with the customer. We think that is one of the ideas behind the new partnership between Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE, in which SAP's HANA database and business applications will run on top of Microsoft's Azure cloud