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A new year and a new slate of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) headlines. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant is ready to bring Apple Pay to more locations -- including those outside of the United States. Apple could also dominate the wearable tech space even if only a small fraction of...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a big fan of annual upgrades, but its set-top box hasn't received a hardware update for more than two years. Analysts told Benzinga why Apple might be waiting. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), on the other hand, showed now hesitation in upgrading its search feature. South...

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are among the companies that joined the new Streaming Video Alliance last month. The Alliance was created with the goal of producing an open architecture, new standards and best practices that could ultimately improve the...

The final week of November is often one of the slowest of the year, but there were a few noteworthy stories ahead of Thanksgiving. For starters, BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) offered big money for iPhone trade-ins. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was rumored to be close to another M&A deal --...

BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) shares rose mysteriously on Friday, presumably on renewed anticipation of a possible buyout. Contrary to reports that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will close Beats Music, the iPhone maker might have a plan to save the ailing service. Analysts responded to Europe...

Investors barely reacted to the news that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will replace Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) as the default search engine in Firefox. Google previously paid Firefox upward of $300 million to secure its place as Firefox's default search engine. Google will...

Bob Lang loves Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA). He's long on calls and short on put spreads. “I’m all over the place on [Alibaba],” he said. Lang is a private trader in equity options markets at his company, Aztec Capital LLC, an options mentor at Explosive...

U.S. stocks surged on Friday, lifting the Dow and S&P 500 to new all-time high record closes. Investors were treated to news of a surprise stimulus expansion from the Bank of Japan. The Japanese central bank increased its yearly target for monetary expansion to 80-trillion yen ($724 billion...

U.S. stocks rose on Thursday after government data showed the U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter, better than the 3.0 percent expected. Investors brushed off a poor reading on the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits, which rose last week in favor of GDP data; this...

U.S. stocks reversed early morning gains following a fatal shooting of a Canadian soldier in the nation's capital and a subsequent gunfight inside Canada's Parliament. Declining oil prices was also cited as a factor for the poor performance in equities on Wednesday following the release...

Investors are eager to hear from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) this week. Analysts agree that the company's cash — specifically, the way it will be used — is the key topic. "I think that's the biggest question on everybody's mind," B. Riley & Co. analyst Sameet Sinha told Benzinga...