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While everyone is busy debating holiday season sales figures from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the company on Thursday came out with sales number for its App Store in 2014. CNBC's Josh Lipton reported on the numbers from Apple and also elaborated how Google Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ...

Any company doing business in mainland China faces challenges. Such challenges include, according to the Global Association of Risk Professionals: relationship building, the role of respect, widespread tax evasion, weak internal controls and use of third-party agents. Here are four major...

U.S. stocks ended Wednesday's trading session little changed after Fed officials expressed an ongoing concern that inflation may remain at low levels for some time despite efforts to boost the economy, according to October's FOMC minutes. “The information reviewed for the October...

How much can labels really make from streaming music? Pandora: Up To $0.00137 Per Play In June 2013, Cracker vocalist David Lowery claimed that he was paid $16.89 for a song that was played more than 1.15 million times on Pandora (NYSE: P). Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren responded to...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has made it clear it wants to be involved in every aspect of consumers’ lives. From PCs, tablets, smartphones and even smart homes, the company has already made its software and Android OS a major force. However, one area the company has yet to conquer...

If reports from DigiTimes, IB Times, and CNET are accurate, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) tablet and smartphone lineup for 2014 will begin with launch of an 8-inch Nexus tablet in April, followed by release of a Nexus 6 smartphone and the long-delayed Nexus 10 2 tablet. According to DigiTimes, Google...

Some techies might expect the major news stories to disappear in the days leading up to Christmas. That might happen, but it hasn't happened yet. This week proved to very fruitful, with rumors (and leaks!) surrounding the China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) iPhone deal. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) got the...

Japanese revenue for Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) software store have caught up to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) online outlet. According to App Annie (via VentureBeat), Japanese consumers now spend more on apps than their American counterparts. Google Leads Japan But iOS App Revenue Dominates Globally The...

No one dives deeper into Black Friday than Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retail giant is currently hosting a massive Black Friday Deals Week, a period when the company promises to add new deals as frequently as every 10 minutes. There are so many ways to save that one consumer is unlikely to...

In developing and evolving Fetchnotes, a note-taking app for Android and iOS, the team began to realize that it was time for a change. "We attracted over 80,000 people, but we noticed two things," Alex Schiff, Fetchnotes' co-founder and CEO, told Benzinga. "One was that it was really hard to get...

There were a number of notable headlines from Apple, (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and other industry players this week, but there weren't any really big announcements. As a result, consumers and investors alike turned their attention to the days ahead, such as the October 22 iPad event,...

When it comes to app revenue, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play continues to trail the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store. This, despite the fact Google Play increased its take a full 10 percent in the six-month period from April to September. During that period, Apple dropped from 75 to 65 percent...