Events

The total eclipse was a trucking nightmare. Just as the industry warned, interstates in and around the 70-mile, coast-to-coast swath of totality were snarled with sungazers mingling, and in some cases colliding with, freight haulers from Oregon to South Carolina. From Sea To Shadowed Sea Tens of...

New ideas seem to become booming businesses overnight, if the mobile and cloud revolutions in tech are any indication. However, it might be time to ask what’s next. The world has seen innovations that optimize the way people, goods and information travel, like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s...

Benzinga announced last week that DocuSign chairman Keith Krach, former Prosper president Ron Suber and Ripple executive chairman Chris Larsen will join a speaker's roster that already included "Shark Tank" host Kevin O'Leary at the Benzinga FinTech Summit on September 28th in San...

The United States concluded first-round negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico Sunday, having laid groundwork to modernize the 23-year-old treaty. President Donald Trump has been critical of the existing deal and has threatened to exit altogether if the U.S....

Look down before you look up at the solar eclipse. You may be standing on railroad tracks. Federal authorities report that a car or human gets hit by a train every three hours in the United States. Monday’s cosmic lightshow is expected to draw Americans to the 70-mile wide swatch of the...

Natural gas stocks and ETNs like United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG) and VelocityShares 3x Long Natural Gas ETN (NYSE: UGAZ) may see an uncommon catalyst this week — a solar eclipse. On Monday, the moon, sun and Earth will be in perfect alignment for some of the continental United...

Robots were responsible for killing billions of people and enslaving the surviving human race in the "Terminator" franchise. In 2017, the threat of this happening is more real than what many had jokingly brushed off as science fiction.  Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk...

The founders of 116 robotics and artificial intelligence companies have issued an open letter calling for an international ban on “killer robots,” warning that weaponized AI poses a genuine threat to the human race. The letter was signed by experts from 26 countries, including Tesla Inc...

Loop Capital Markets hosted its "Loop Around" Silicon Valley — Summer 2017 Semiconductor Bus Tour last Tuesday and Wednesday. Over the two-day event, investors had the opportunity to meet with executives from 12 semiconductor companies, namely: Cavium Inc (NASDAQ: CAVM) Cypress...

Tensions between the United States and North Korea remain elevated, and in theory, war could break out between North Korea, the United States and its allies — including South Korea. If war were to break out in the Korean peninsula, QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) may be the most vulnerable...

Startup Angels and Techstars Mobility are hosting a workshop in Detroit Oct. 4-5 that’s intended to give both an insider’s view of startup investing and the startup climate in the Motor City. Startup Angels, a Washington D.C.-based company designed to empower angel investors, is pairing...

Integr8, a Nov. 9 conference in Detroit organized by Automation Alley, will focus on the technologies that are driving what’s being called the fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s the first cross-discipline global conference to be held in the U.S. on Industry 4.0, according to Automation...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is an event for those interested in finance, entrepreneurship, capital markets, deal-making, networking and accelerating their business. It's a chance to interact with and learn from founders, C-Suite institutional executives, leaders of the biggest and hottest...

Shares of Applied Optoelectronics Inc (NASDAQ: AAOI) fell more than 3 percent Wednesday morning after analysts at BWS Financial released a cautious research report. Applied Optoelectronics held an investor conference call and detailed its manufacturing efficiencies, but BWS Financial's Hamed...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has begun issuing refunds and unlisting what the company feared were bogus eyewear meant to safely glimpse the Aug. 21 eclipse, and some sellers said the online giant was being overly cautious. Confusion and concern began last week, when the American Astronomical...