FiscalNote, a data vendor that provides predictive analytics on legislative and regulatory actions, has acquired geopolitical risk signal provider Predata. The transaction is the latest in a series of acquisitions from FiscalNote, which has comple...

News Corp has agreed to buy three commodity pricing data businesses from IHS Markit, the sale of which were seen as an important regulatory prerequisite to complete a USD 44bn merger between IHS and S&P Global. In a joint statement, IHS and S&...

The following article was contributed by You Yunting, attorney-at-law, and Gao Tianyi, paralegal, at DeBund Law Offices. Data buyers often focus on several potential legal concerns in web-scraped data, particularly relating to the Computer Fraud a...

PanAgora Asset Management has developed a new way to measure and scale sustainable investing using an unsupervised machine learning model, according to a recently released academic paper from the group. The research, which allows investors to algo...

Confidence levels among hedge fund managers are at their highest levels in recent years amid strong industry performance and capital inflows, according to a new report from the Alternative Investment Management Association. Among the 300 hedge fun...

Apple unveiled new privacy features at its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, highlighting several changes it will make this fall to limit data collection within its operating system. Chief among the changes is a new service — called...