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Social media giants are trying to engage their users in new ways and offering e-commerce shopping options within the platforms has become a common approach in recent months. Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is the latest to expand its shopping offerings, announcing Shopping Lists. The service allows Pinners...

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is expanding its footprint in the creator community with Tuesday's launch of a video-first feature called "Idea Pins". The image platform is challenging other social media platforms by allowing creators to record and edit creative videos with up to 20 pages of...

Pandemic or no pandemic, e-commerce is a megatrend as physical retail is ceding ground to its digital counterpart. Although our minds go directly to companies like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), there are all kinds of companies who are riding this trend. Here are three companies that are doing a...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS) had a very successful year. Records were beaten during the pandemic-embodied 2020, with a solid perspective ahead for the upcoming period. Unlike Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), which could potentially feel a damaging impact of Apple Inc...

In February, financial markets experienced a historic liquidation that paralleled the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Alongside the introduction of global lockdowns, brokerage account openings rose rapidly as sheltered market participants searched for ways to maintain engagement with...

The shares of Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS) tumbled in Thursday's trade as The Information reported that social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) had launched a competing app. What Happened Facebook's "New Product Experimentation" team developed the app called "Hobbi...

Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS), the not-quite social network, is a fast-growing and nearly profitable platform for online image searches. And its stock price is up 44% since its successful IPO debut in April IPO. And we've seen such success stories quite rarely throughout this year that by no...

WeWork yesterday announced that it was filing to withdraw its IPO after major issues with valuation and governance were revealed to the public. With this move, they lose out on $6B in loans they would've received if they'd raised at least $3B in an IPO this year. Its valuation has been...

This weekend's Barron's cover story offers reasons why investors should not panic about the trade war. Another featured article suggests five cheap stocks to ride out the trade war. Also, the prospects for a retailer, a video game maker and a social media play. This weekend's Barron...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included auto and entertainment giants with strong prospects. Bearish calls included leaders in aerospace and semiconductors and a recent IPO. The escalation of the trade war with China overhung...

One of the most anticipated IPOs of the last few years, shares of Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS) debuted on Wall Street Thursday morning. After an expected initial range for the shares of $15 to $17, the offering for 75 million shares priced at $19 per share. The issue opened at $23.75, up about 25...

The basket of social media stocks will expand Thursday as Pinterest, Inc. joins the ranks of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and others. The IPO Pinterest will issue 75 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "PINS," according to the firm’s...

For a more comprehensive IPO calendar, check out the offering in Benzinga Cloud. The IPO dates below are expected but not confirmed. Brainsway Ltd (BWAY) will issue 2.5 million shares at $11.94 Wednesday on the Nasdaq. The offering represents about 23.1 percent of outstanding shares and is expected...

Ridesharing giant Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) is going public this week at an estimated valuation of at least $20 billion. This is just weeks before the anticipated IPO of larger competitor Uber, which is valued at around $120 billion. Palantir ($41 billion valuation), Airbnb ($31 billion valuation) and...