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After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, Apple is finally ready to unveil the fifth iPhone. Or so AllThingsD's sources believe, claiming that the iPhone 5 will be the star of the media event, which will be helmed by the company's new CEO, Tim Cook. Unfortunately, no other juicy tidbits are...

Have you “Read” a new book? “Listened” to a new song? “Watched” a new film? If so, you won't have to type the word any longer. Facebook will soon give users the chance to click on “Read,” “Watched” and “Listened” buttons to show that they have experienced the same item as their friends. That's...

With more than 3.3 trillion virtual currency credits distributed, Sometrics is quite an impressive company. Its partners include Playdom, Bigpoint, GamersFirst, Atlus Online, IMVU, and PopCap Games, the latter of which was acquired by Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) this summer. Now it seems that...

As fear returns (or perhaps never left is more apropos) to the equity markets, the indexes are dropping sharply today, with the Dow and S&P 500 down sharply, and the NASDAQ off more than 1%. Despite this, the cigarette names are performing relatively well, in comparison to the broader equity...

Michael Arrington, founding editor of TechCrunch, has officially left the website following a public dispute with AOL (NYSE: AOL), the website's owner of nearly a year. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced Monday that Michael Arrington has “decided to move on from TechCrunch and AOL to his newly formed...

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has acquired mobile and social ad targeting startup OneRiot. No terms were disclosed. OneRiot creates audience profiles by capturing data from social services such as Twitter. Advertisers are then able to target their selected audience on mobile devices.

While other daily deals fall, Groupon continues to grow. Despite SEC questions and an IPO roadshow cancellation, Groupon is still going strong. In August, the company grew its revenue by 13% – an impressive number considering the challenge of competing in the daily deals space. Groupon also added...

It's no longer speculation or a nearly confirmed report – this time, it's the real deal. Michael Arrington is out. AOL (NYSE: AOL) has just released a statement on the matter: “The TechCrunch acquisition has been a success for AOL and for our shareholders, and we are very excited about its future...

NOT from the people that brought you AOL Time Warner. But it might as well be: AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) could be joining together as one in an effort to…do what, exactly? TechCrunch has the scoop. Apparently, AOL is ran by a bunch of, well, yahoos, as the company has decided to...

Is this the future cloud computing will bring? It could be. It's not enough that I have to hear my cloud-loving colleague complain about the problems with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Docs (ironic, eh?) – oh no, I also have to read all the horror stories of what happens when companies and individuals...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stated that the social networking site now has 100 million active users, which he defines as users who log into to the site at least once per month. Fifty million of these active users log into the site every day. Yet only 60 percent of active users tweet at least once per...

Facebook launched the latest iteration (version 3.5) of its iOS app Wednesday only to encounter criticism from social networking's second most popular site – Twitter. Facebook's new status and photo update interface is not as new as expected by the social networking community. The interface...

Before answering, you might want to hear from someone that uses the service. Namely, Benzinga. We use RingCentral, and on the day we announced that Benzinga had received a $1.5 million investment from the founders of Groupon, the service went down. RingCentral attempted to make things right by...

The once-popular streaming video service is on its way to three new territories, many of which are bound to love and embrace the service today, and hate the service tomorrow when it loses content and becomes more expensive. That's just what happened to Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) in America when the...

Who knew that a multi-billion-dollar corporation could be so deceptive and sneaky? Benzinga's own John Thorpe did, suggesting earlier this year that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) chose to acquire Skype in order to spy on us. Now TechCrunch is reporting that the Windows maker is being sued for...