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Retirement planning does not have to be a long, arduous event that happens once a year, nor should it be that way. There are a few simple things that you can do today to ensure your retirement goals are attainable. 1. Evaluate And Compare Evaluate your current lifestyle and compare that to...

Autumn officially arrived at 10:29 p.m. ET September 22. Just ahead of that, the 2014 holiday shopping season began. For those who missed the signs, here are six sure indicators, along with the retailers that introduced them, offering proof positive that the holidays have arrived. 1....

These are the apps that everyone should download before their next big vacation. 1. My Disney Experience Up until now, Disney World (NYSE: DIS) might have been the one place where consumers didn't need a smartphone. It is, after all, the happiest place on Earth. Why would anyone want to...

TweetDeck, Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) real-time tracking, organizing and engagement tool, might have been hacked. Users were originally told to log out of TweetDeck and log back in to "fully apply the fix" that Twitter believed it had implemented. Minutes later, TweetDeck published another tweet,...

Over 100 individuals were arrested on Wednesday during a protest at the McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) corporate headquarters in the run-up to the company's annual share holder meeting on Thursday. The protesters, who are said to have arrived on 32 buses, are seeking higher wages from the fast food...

PlayStation 3 users rejoiced earlier this month as they were finally able to watch their favorite HBO shows on the gaming console. Sony is the parent of the HBO Go app, which allows members to instantly stream shows and movies on certain devices, depending on their cable provider. But one big...

General Motors (NYSE: GM) CEO Mary Barra is leading an internal review of whether the company delayed a recall of 1.6 million vehicles. In a letter to employees Tuesday, Barra said she would take an “unvarnished” look at how the process was handled. She said she is leading a group of senior...

Walt Disney World has raised ticket prices to $99 for a single-day pass to its Magic Kingdom, USA Today has reported. This comes only eight months after the theme park's last admission price increase. In June 2013, daily admission rose $6 to $95 for a single ticket. Admission for Disney's (...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has made the news a lot this year, but this time the company made headlines for somewhat of an embarrassing reason. Preliminary reports emerged Wednesday night that a large aircraft had made an emergency landing at a small airport in the Midwest. Once all the facts were...

For investors looking to profit from the real estate rebound in the United States, stocks that gain from growth in the sector are far preferable to actually owning the physical property. While a recent article in USA Today reported the number of people renting single family homes in the United...

The nation is facing a potential government shutdown for the first time since 1995. If the House and Senate cannot agree on a spending bill by midnight Monday, a shutdown seems likely. Here are some basic questions (and answers) related to a government shutdown: When would the shutdown begin...

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. Bloomberg News Bloomberg News ( @BloombergNews ) tweeted out the great irony of our...

In a move meant to improve safety – not to mention bookings and share prices – Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) announced Wednesday that it would spend more than $300 million to enhance emergency procedures on its fleet of 24 cruise ships. According to a PRNewswire press release, Carnival will “...