Fusion

It’s been a hot year for the marijuana industry. Eight states expanded legalization measures on Election Day, bringing the total number of states where marijuana is legal for either medicinal or recreational purposes to 29. Coinciding with that is the big rally in marijuana stocks, which one...

Back in June, a few Michigan police officers showed up at the lab of Michigan State University professor Anil Jain, requesting the biometric identifiers specialist to help them replicate the finger of a dead man. While bedazzling at first, the requisition made sense. The rationale was the following...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) should acquire Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) in the view of a columnist for the website and cable TV news service called Fusion. Twitter shares were hammered last week on a disappointing earnings report and are off about 25 percent in the past month. The San Francisco-...

The rapid decline of the newspaper business over the past couple of decades was a major hit to the media world, but there are new and powerful forms of media that have gained an immense amount of traction on the digital frontier. Websites like Buzzfeed and Gawker are embracing wit, snark and...

“Flash Boys” author Michael Lewis is one of Felix Salmon’s favorite writers. “He is the best writer of nonfiction financial journalism in the world,” he said. “There’s really no doubt about that.” Salmon is a senior editor at Fusion, former...

A recent University of Michigan study concluded that a majority of Americans had a positive opinion about self-driving vehicles. Most people who have read about automated vehicles have likely read about Google Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) highly publicized attempts to build an autonomous car....

The ways in which people watch television content have already started to evolve. Thanks to a new agreement between Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and satellite provider Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) that evolution could speed up. Last week Dish signed a contract for Internet streaming rights for ESPN,...

Ford (NYSE: F) President and CEO Alan Mulally talked about aluminum and public transportation, addressed rumors about his future and answered an all-important question posed by Benzinga regarding his favorite car, during a company-sponsored event Tuesday at the North American International Auto...

December 2013 sales reports for Ford (NYSE: F), Chrysler, and General Motors (NYSE: GM) were released on Friday, with more (international) auto companies expected to release sales reports later this afternoon. For the month, Ford reported 1.8 percent increase in total vehicle sales, Chrysler a 6...

It’s called TV Conversation Targeting and it’s Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) latest and greatest new way to let advertisers target people who have tweeted about a certain show according to a company blog post Thursday. Only in this case, the targeting can occur even if the advertiser in question hasn’...