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Federal regulators have approved a new stock exchange aimed at high-growth companies that seeks to focus on long-term strategies rather than short-term benchmarks. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, last week. It's aimed mostly at...

Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN), which is used to putting bricks-and-mortar enterprises out of business, opened an actual physical store in New York City and likely will continue to build a retail presence in other locations, a group of Pacific Crest analysts led by Brent Bracelin said Friday. The...

Following on the heels of Japan, China and South Korea, Italy may become the first Western country to provide women paid menstrual leave. The proposal, currently debated in Italy’s parliament, would set up for a classic trade-off. Women subject to painful periods could profit from three days...

Remember back in the day when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) just sold computers and not tablets, music players or smartphones? Today it may seem that Apple is neglecting its customer base who wants to dish out good money for a laptop or desktop, at least according to Quartz. Quartz noted Apple hasn't...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) founder and chairman, Jack Ma, is eyeing a majority stake in a Hong Kong newspaper, the South China Morning Post. Ma, along with Alibaba, has a history of media acquisitions, including eBusiness Review, Huxiu, China Business Network, and more. Ma...

Speaking to Quartz, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that Bitcoin "has some serious problems." Bitcoin's value peaked at $1,147.25 on December 4 and crashed to a low of $177.28 just a few months later. Bernanke suggested that Bitcoin has yet to establish itself as a...

The rapid decline of the newspaper business over the past couple of decades was a major hit to the media world, but there are new and powerful forms of media that have gained an immense amount of traction on the digital frontier. Websites like Buzzfeed and Gawker are embracing wit, snark and...

Quartz recently polled 811 smartphone users living in the U.S. asking their intentions to buy Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) upcoming Apple Watch product. The survey results may be discouraging to Apple investors who expect the product will be met with tremendous demand. According to Quartz,...

Caesarstone (NASDAQ: CSTE) CEO Yos Shiran laid out his business and its opportunities in an exclusive interview with Benzinga. The United States has been a massive growth driver for Caesarstone. From 2011 to 2013, the U.S. jumped from making up 23 percent to 34.6 percent of the sales mix....

Quartz writer, John McDuling’s recent tweet of a Piper Jaffray chart lends credence to the notion that Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) wants to be more mainstream. At least more competitive. Many people assume organic providers like Whole Foods are more expensive compared to conventional...

Box, the online cloud-storage company, has quietly filed for an initial public offering, according to a report from Quartz and confirmed by Forbes. Box, one of the main competitors to the extremely popular cloud-storage service Dropbox, took a page out of Twitter's playbook by opting to secretly...

If you’re in the camp of Quartz writer Christopher Mims who wrote that 2013 was a lost year for tech, Wall Street Journal columnist Farhad Manjoo has two words for you: “grow up.” If one of the basic rules of journalism is to strike up anger from time to time, words like that may just...