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Leslie Bocskor is one of the legal cannabis industry's high-profile personalities. Based in Las Vegas, he is founder of Electrum Partners, a group that develops expansion strategies for the marijuana market. He's also founding chairman of the Nevada Cannabis Industry Association. How did...

Brazil isn't the only big name getting kicked around in the soccer world. On Tuesday,  Nike (NYSE: NKE) said it will no longer sponsor kits (soccer uniforms) for Manchester United (NYSE: MANU), effective after the 2014-2015 season. Nike has been a sponsor of the English Premier League...

Engility (NYSE: EGL) has been on a contract winning spree. The government services company has been awarded four contracts over the past month worth $106 million. In an  interview with Benzinga, CEO Tony Smeraglinolo discussed what these contracts mean for Engility and what to expect for...

Numerous developers are supporting the free-to-play format, but are microtransactions the best way to profit? When targeting teens and adults, microtransactions seem to be very profitable. But it is a whole other story when looking at six-year-old kids, who may not comprehend the concept....

Despite the number of people remaining bearish, Dennis Gartman says it's still a bull market out there. Gartman has been writing his daily financial trading commentary, “The Gartman Letter,” every day for the past thirty years -- with the single exception of his parent's 50th wedding anniversary....

The Federal Reserve’s FOMC minutes are scheduled to be released at 2:00 p,m. EDT on Wednesday. Like any statement from the Federal Reserve, this release will have the potential to move markets. Most investors are expecting no substantial change in the minutes, but everyone will be...

For all the talk about marijuana as a business, it's still a business geared towards people enjoying themselves. And the MaryJane Group (OTC: MJMJ) considers itself the cannabis industry's leading hospitality firm. The company provides Colorado-based businesses with marketing,...

Unlike equity markets, currencies are open all the time. That means Forex traders mostly get to set their own hours, if they even sleep at all. Forex trader Lydia Idem Finkley is a night owl, so she doesn't like to go to bed early -- but that doesn't stop her from getting to sleep...

PMDTechnologies has a brilliant idea that could make Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and other virtual reality developers a ton of money. Current VR systems are limited by their couch potato restrictions; that is, users are not able to leave the confines of a chair. They can move their head around and...

Day trading is a business. At least that's how freelance writer and consulting analyst Ann Logue wants people to see it. Logue is the author of ‘Day Trading For Dummies,' and she was recently a guest on Benzinga's #PreMarket Prep to discuss the newest edition of her book. “(Day trading) is a...

Stocks under $10 are like the red-headed stepchildren of Wall Street, and that's exactly why David Peltier invests in them. “The real reason we're involved in these companies is because they're underfollowed by the rest of Wall Street,” Peltier told Benzinga. Peltier manages a portfolio for...

The hepatitis C industry has been on fire since Merck (NYSE: MRK) paid a 230 percent premium for pharmaceutical company Idenix (NASDAQ: IDIX). Benzinga spoke to Enanta (NASDAQ: ENTA) CEO Jay Luly about possibilities for his firm, which has one of the most expansive hepatitis C pipelines of all...

Steve Berg is CFO of O.pen Vape, one of the largest brands in the legal cannabis industry. Its pen-like vaporizers, that allow cannabis users to discreetly smoke marijuana and hash oil, have been catching on due to its marketing campaign – mostly via social networking. In part one of our...

One of the companies drawing a lot of attention at at this week's Weedstock Cannabis Investor Conference in Denver is O.pen Vape. Described as one of the largest brands in the legal cannabis industry, O.pen Vape manufactures pen-like devices that vaporize hash or marijuana oil and allows the...

The previous governor of Michigan should have placed Detroit in bankruptcy years ago, according to Reuters financial blogger Cate Long. “It was a really bad move to let it fester as long as it did,” she told Benzinga. Long writes about retail fixed income markets, including...