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U.S. stocks were little moved with the news-flow light, as would be expected prior to a long-weekend. In fact, Thursday's trading session proved to be the second lowest volume day of 2014. The S&P 500 closed above 1,900 and came within striking distance of matching its intraday all time...

U.S. stocks recovered and posted strong gains as concerns over a military conflict involving Russia and Ukraine dissipated overnight. The Dow posted a triple digit point gain, recording its best day of the year. The S&P 500 surged to new all time highs of 1,876.23 while the Nasdaq hit new...

Bitcoin automated teller machine maker, Robocoin, plans to install its first Bitcoin ATMs in the United States this month, Reuters reported. Kiosks will be installed in Seattle, and Austin, Texas. They are similar to regular ATMs, except they can scan government-issued pieces of identification to...

According to new reports from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, it seems like we should expect Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8.1 Update 1 a little bit later than initially anticipated. While most were expecting to see the update in March, it looks like Windows 8.1 Update 1 won't be released until...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) acquisition of Nest could have played a role in the tech giant's decision to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Goodbye, Motorola. Hello, Nest. Romain Dillet of TechCrunch wrote that Google's newly-acquired unit will be asked to utilize its knowledge and...

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...

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors and traders focused on the positives. Data showed that the economy expanded in the fourth quarter as consumer spending gained traction. "Today the market is focused on the good news, or the developed world," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at...

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will sell the Apple (NASDQ: AAPL) iPhone 5C for $27 on Friday. But the deal will only be offered to those who sign a two-year contract with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) or AT&T (NYSE: T) and does not apply to other carriers. According to the LA Times, this is the lowest price...

Following Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) recent IPO, the company is ready to prove to shareholders its valuation is justified based on its potential future advertising revenues. According to TechCrunch, Twitter is set to introduce retargeted ads based on browser cookies. As users browse the web, they...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is already working on another e-reader. According to TechCrunch (via The Verge), Amazon will release the next-generation Kindle Paperwhite early next spring. The new e-reader will come with a display resolution of 300 ppi, topping the nearest competitor (the Kobo Aura HD,...

After launching balloons 12 miles above the Earth's atmosphere, many thought that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) could -- or would -- do anything. That mindset also led to mass speculation that the company's mysterious barges, currently located off San Francisco and Portland, Maine, would serve as...

If early, non-official metrics are true, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just scored another big product win. According to early data from Fiksu, the new iPad Air is already responsible for 0.88 percent of the millions of people using the apps of Fiksu’s clients. That’s about four times higher than the 0....

There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful or just down right comical. 1. Walt Mossberg The Wall Street Journal columnist, Walt Mossberg ( @waltmossberg ), tweeted...

In May of 2013, little-known startup Matcha.tv shut down without explanation. Aside from a statement noting that the service was gone and that its users' personal information had been deleted, Matcha did not reveal anything about the company's future. In most circumstances, consumers would have...