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The Company That Wants To Be The Yelp For Marijuana
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 3:09pm | 509It’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...
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The Wicked Present: Cops Using Dead Man's Fingers To Access Phone Via 3D Printing Technology
Sunday, July 24, 2016 - 2:55pm | 444Back 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...
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Disney Reportedly Will Ditch Fusion: Just How Big Is The Website?
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 2:32pm | 267Rumor has it that Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) is apparently in talks with broadcaster Univision to abandon its stake in Fusion, as the venture struggles. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Disney could make its exit as early as the end of this year. Disney partnered with...
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Felix Salmon: Facebook Should Buy Twitter
Monday, May 4, 2015 - 3:53pm | 334Facebook 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-...
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15 Women Championing The Media Revolution
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 11:45am | 2182The 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...
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Why Felix Salmon Doesn't Like 'Flash Boys'
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 9:52am | 421“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...
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What Felix Salmon Thinks About The Future Of The Financial Media
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 9:25am | 450Former Reuters journalist Felix Salmon says he doesn’t like to make predictions about the future of the financial media. Not too long ago, Salmon left Reuters to work as a Senior Editor for the television and digital network Fusion. He recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to...
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Ford Motor's Sales Growth Slowed In October
Monday, November 3, 2014 - 11:35am | 271Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) on Monday announced U.S. sales metrics for the month of October. Ford sold 188,654 vehicles in October, a decrease of 2 percent from a year ago. The company said in a press release the sales declines were “expected” due to a plant changeover for the...
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Where GM, Ford Motor Company And Google Inc Are With The Automated Car
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 2:42pm | 901A 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....
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Dish Deal With Disney Could Be A Game Changer
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 9:56am | 557The 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,...
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Ford's Alan Mulally Talks Aluminum, His Future & His Favorite Ride
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 7:27am | 609Ford (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...
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U.S. Auto Companies Release Sales Data; Growth Reported by Ford and Chrysler; GM Suffers Decline
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 3:27pm | 486December 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...
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Twitter Launches TV Conversation Targeting to Snatch Up Even More Advertising Dollars
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 1:21pm | 621It’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’...
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Does Ford Suffer from a Case of Honda or Hyundai Envy?
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 10:06am | 879Think Ford First, says the automaker. So why are new Ford cars making us think of Honda and Hyundai instead? It all started with the redesigned Ford (NYSE: F) Escape, which looks painfully similar to the Honda (NYSE: HMC) CR-V. After writing about the similarities last fall, many readers chimed in...