In a twist on the software-hosting model, companies that make development tools are searching for new profits by offering Web-based tools for rent to software developers. The concept of ASPs ...

Editor's note: This story will be updated. (The Center Square) - California professors and civil rights leaders urge California lawmakers to reconsider banning the use of algorithmic rent-pricing ...

“RENTmaximizer effectively outsources the management of rental pricing from a landlord to Yardi itself, which then implements higher prices collectively across a group of landlords,” the lawsuit ...

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a ...

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the software company RealPage. The company is accused of using information illegally to help landlords set unfair rent prices. The Department of ...

Across the nation, the use of rent-setting software is under fire — and in California, the fight is heating up. Three cities in the state are taking steps to ban or restrict these tools, which critics ...

Lawmakers have called on the Department of Justice to investigate RealPage, a real estate software company that’s been accused of helping to drive up rental prices throughout the US. Lawmakers have ...

Broadband users will be able to rent software over the Internet in a new deal announced by BTopenworld on Thursday. The service -- dubbed Software to Go -- is, according to BT, the first of its kind ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached proposed settlements with a software vendor and seven rent-to-own stores after the agency accused them of installing spyware on rented computers that ...

John Montz is happiest when his world is in total disrepair. The 47-year-old "building operating-system specialist" at Western Wyoming Community College is a fixer by trade--and by nature. He lovingly ...