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The Consumer Electronics Show is about to begin. Are you ready? Numerous announcements are expected to be made, but it's the future world technology (such as flexible displays or glasses-free 3D televisions) that consumers are really excited about. Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) are...

The National Security Agency is coming under fire again after it was revealed that the agency may have secretly broken into data centers from both Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). According to the Washington Post, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has provided documents...

Is the Washington, D.C.-based World Bank hampering American wind and solar power companies, when it comes to competition with their Chinese competitors? According to an extensive report in The Washington Post, that may be the case. The World Bank was founded towards the end of World War II,...

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. deltahedge deltahedge (@minefornothing) tweeted sarcastically about the building permits...

This weekend in Barron's online: a roundtable discussion of the changing landscape of master limited partnerships, and the prospects for the Washington Post, BNP Paribas, HD Supply, Isis Pharmaceuticals and Redbox. Cover Story "MLP Boom or Bust?" by Dimitra DeFotis. Master limited partnerships (...

Ever since Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) chief executive and tech billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million on Monday, questions have arisen in the media industry as to whether other top national newspapers would follow the same fate—newspapers such as the distinguished The New...

On Saturday, the Obama Administration did what most people familiar with the case believed it wouldn’t: It reversed the ruling of the ITC to ban the sale and import of older model Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones and iPads in the United States. On June 4 of this year, the International Trade...

It's official. With its shares eclipsing the $900 mark, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is trading in the nosebleeds. Out of curiosity, Benzinga decided to look where other publicly traded companies in the S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) were trading at. This only includes the S&P 500 -- otherwise companies...

Is NBC’s Brian Williams being replaced by @someguyontwitter? Voice of America reports that, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults first hear about a news story on a social networking site. For young people, the number is almost 25 percent. While...

Gannett (NYSE: GCI) was down Monday along with The New York Times (NYSE: NYT), Lee (NYSE: LEE), McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), Journal Communications (NYSE: JRN), and Media General (NYSE: MEG). As media companies have scrambled to reinvent themselves, their customers have discovered cable television...

Marketwatch suggests that media stocks Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) and the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) are among the likely takeover candidates in the new year. Whether someone wants their spectrum, another company already effectively controls them, or they have...

Recent earnings disappointments from tech giants like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), as well as industrials such as Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and DuPont (NYSE: DD), have taken their toll. The S&P 500 is down about three percent in the past three weeks....

The last week of October could prove to be significant for the markets. Notably, the final jobs report prior the U.S. Presidential election will be released at the end of the week, and the smaller employment reports (ADP, Challenger, etc.) will lead up to Friday's big release at 8:30 ET. A strongly...

Communications and entertainment provider Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has received federal approval on a deal with four cable companies. The authorization was revealed Friday, despite the fact that the deal could potentially reduce consumer choices and increase prices for internet, phone and television...