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December usually means a holiday push for retail sales — but that may not hold true for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and sales of its latest iPhones.  Model Sales This year, Apple has produced perhaps its most diverse line of iPhones in terms of size, capability and price. The...

As beer continues to cede market share to alcoholic alternatives and hard sodas fall out of favor, brewers are jumping in on a rising trend. The industry is shaking its line-up with hard seltzer, a beverage seen to be as disruptive to beer as LaCroix has been to soda. Sparkling Water’s...

People seem to really like using Riskalyze. The software platform that enables financial advisors to more accurately create portfolios based on their clients' risk profiles was named the winner of the first-ever LikeFolio Customer Love Award at the 2018 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards. The award...

Social media stocks have been pounded in the past two weeks on fears that privacy concerns and data regulation could eat into social media ad revenue. The hashtag #DeleteFacebook has been trending off and on since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, and investors are rightfully concerned the wave...

A new generation? Pepsi (NYSE: PEP) stole the show with its 2018 Super Bowl commercials as its brands Doritos, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew each delighted viewers and generated massive amounts of positive chatter. The company’s brands captured three of the top four spots in LikeFolio consumer buzz...

“But the Yeezys jumped over the Jumpman” Those were the words of Kanye West in 2012 as he rapped about his shoe brand surpassing Nike Inc's (NYSE: NKE) Jordan Brand shoe sales. Five years later, it actually happened. Matt Powell, a NPD Sports Industry analyst, tweeted that this is...

We’ve known for a long time that brands partnering with celebrities can often lead to an increase in product sales. One of the best examples of this has occurred over the past two years, as Oprah Winfrey shed pounds in exchange for millions of dollars of gains in Weight Watchers’ stock...

Back in January, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz took a political stand against the anti-immigration policies of Donald Trump by announcing that Starbucks would hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years in the 75 counties in which it operates around the world. While the...

Social media data indicates Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) had a rough fourth quarter. That's according to Andy Swan, the co-founder of LikeFolio, a company that tracks social media analytics among brands and stocks. Swan was a guest on Friday's edition of Benzinga's PreMarket...

Investors who were glued to their TV sets to watch Tom Brady's epic comeback in the 2017 Super Bowl are now shifting their attention and asking the more pertinent question: Which companies outperformed during commercial breaks? The TD Ameritrade Ad Challenge used Social Sentiment data, a resource...