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eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is up more than six percent after the popular auction site announced its fourth quarter results. The company reported a Q4 EPS of $0.81 versus the Street estimate of $0.63. Earnings per share were up 47 percent from the year-ago period. Revenue arrived at $4.5 billion versus...

Are virtual wallets and mobile payment solutions the way of the future? In June, Gartner estimated that mobile payment transaction values would reach $235.4 billion in 2013. By 2017, Gartner expects the value to swell to $721 billion. This is exciting, but there are some things that consumers...

How could one improve on a mobile app that lets customers use their smartphone to pay for merchandise while standing in line at a store? How about one that lets you pre-pay in the cloud, avoiding the line all together? According to TechCrunch, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reportedly just acquired...

This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the outlook for 2014. Also, the prospects for eBay, YPF, Innophos Holdings and more. Cover Story "An Upbeat View of 2014" by Vito J. Racanelli. After the crazy ride of the past six years, Wall Street analysts see things settling down to normal...

Despite a positive note by a leading analyst at Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), major markets suffered a post-turkey Thanksgiving hangover as major indices closed in the red. Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley's lead strategist predicted the S&P will hit 2014… in 2014, an approximate 11.5 percent gain...

UPDATE: After observing "unexpected readings with the first stage liquid oxygen system," SpaceX decided to postpone the launch and investigate. On its official website, the company said that its launch vehicle and satellite are in great shape and that SpaceX looks forward to its next launch...

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...

Advanced analytics provider RapidMiner has received $5 million in a Series A round led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Open Ocean Capital. Formerly known as Rapid-I, the company made the decision to officially change its title to RapidMiner after releasing a successful product with the same name...

According to Yahoo! Finance, after Cowen & Co. upgraded Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) from “market perform” to “outperform” September 20, raising its PT from $29 to $53, the company moved past its awkward phase into corporate adulthood. On Tuesday, Citigroup's Mark May upgraded the stock from "...

Surprise, surprise -- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just dominated another week of massive headlines. Between the iOS 7 Gold Master and one analyst's proclamation that the iPhone 5S would be produce the firm's biggest product launch, Apple news has been a hot commodity this week. Sony (NYSE: SNE) made...

According to AllThingsD, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) wants to get into the online payment business, but before you have grand visions of a Pacquiao - Mayweather prized fight, understand that this isn’t that kind of story -- at least that's what Facebook says. Here’s the story. If you spend any time...

Using smartphones to buy stuff is a growing phenomenon, according to Business Insider, based on its new BI Intelligence report. As a result, the whole notion of digital wallets is becoming reality sooner than many thought. Related: Apple's New Patent Might Suggest Mobile Payment Focus The...

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) fell in after-market trading as the company reported worse than expected second quarter results. Also, guidance for the third quarter was below analyst forecasts and shares fell sharply. Second Quarter Highlights For the second quarter of 2013, eBay reported earnings...

PayPal announced on Thursday that it was “launching” PayPal Galactic in partnership with the SETI Institute and astronaut, Buzz Aldrin. You know this has happened to you before. You’re flying around in space and you get halfway around the moon and you run out of antimatter. (If you’re not a...

There are a few stocks that are publicly traded that have recently gotten the proverbial "Elon Musk bump" as the now-iconic entrepreneur and visionary stakes his claim in financial markets. However, recent jitters over the long-term sustainability of the new technologies his many companies...