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Who will be the next Apple? What company with what disruptive idea will turn the world of technology upside down? In this series, Benzinga interviewed CEOs of several technology startups that are making waves today in hopes of making a difference tomorrow. One of the problems with defining a...

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) latest movie “The Interview” is said to be the reason for the recent hacking attack against the company, but a new threat of violence claiming to be from the same group has many worried about the movie's December 25 premier. The threat asked that the...

China’s factory sector disappointed on Tuesday, declining for the first time in seven months. The nation’s HSBC/Markit manufacturing purchasing managers’ index dropped below the 50 mark, which separates expansion and contraction to 49.5 in December. Most had expected the figure...

Brent crude oil fell to a five-year low below $66 on Monday as the global supply glut continued to grow. The commodity has been volatile since OPEC decided against a supply cut, and most firms have cut their forecasts for crude prices next year, saying we may see oil below $70 for an extended...

Any company doing business in mainland China faces challenges. Such challenges include, according to the Global Association of Risk Professionals: relationship building, the role of respect, widespread tax evasion, weak internal controls and use of third-party agents. Here are four major...

On Wednesday, a Federal probe into the role big banks played in a forex manipulation scheme resulted in huge fines for UBS AG (NYSE: UBS), HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC), the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE: RBS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C). The...

On Monday, Chinese officials detailed their plans to open the nation’s stock markets to international investors, giving Asian stocks a lift and investors a new pool of companies to examine. On November 17, investors will have the opportunity to invest in $2 trillion worth of companies via...

On Friday, the Bank of Japan surprised investors by announcing a new round of stimulus in an effort to kickstart the nation’s flagging growth and combat weak inflation. After a hefty sales tax increase in April, the nation’s economy has struggled to get back on track, and the...

After both New York and New Jersey issued mandatory isolation procedures for anyone traveling into the U.S. that has been in contact with Ebola patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, together with the Obama administration, has released its own, less stringent recommendation....

News broke over the weekend that Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) and CVS Corporation (NYSE: CVS) had disabled Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple Pay mobile wallet payment system in their stores. The story behind the story told of a mobile payment battle involving Apple, a number of...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has developed a vaccine to fight Ebola and will begin testing the drug on humans in January. If the vaccine is deemed safe by health authorities, the company could make 250,000 doses available by May. The vaccine will be the world’s first and is...

Data out on Tuesday showed that the Chinese economy grew just 7.3 percent in the third quarter, a sizable drop from the nation’s second quarter growth of 7.5 percent. The figure beat expectations, but still marks China’s slowest quarter of growth since the financial crisis and is...