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Actor Ashton Kutcher made a name for himself starring in shows like “That ‘70s Show,” “Punk’d” and “Two and a Half Men” along with movies like “Dude, Where’s My Car?” and “Just Married.” While still a major force in...

Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck has 105 million reasons why the app is much more than a social networking platform. The figure represents the number of businesses Foursquare recognizes in 170 countries, Glueck told New York Post reporter Carleton English at the 2018 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards on...

Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck famously predicted a major slump in Chipotle’s (NYSE: CMG) 2016 first-quarter comps that sent the stock tumbling. Glueck’s prediction was based on the company’s analysis of foot traffic data collected by Foursquare’s family of apps. Now, Foursquare...

Social media’s war for your mind-share has largely settled into a stalemate between the Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)/Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)/Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) triumvirate. There’s only so much time people can spend on social media, and besides, we’ve always been at war with...

Tourism to London is expected to tumble by 30 percent during the next few months after the deaths of seven people at London Bridge, a falloff comparable to the drop in visitors when a similar terror attack rocked Paris in 2015. London’s City A.M. says the Tourism Industry Emergency Response...

The slow death of conventional research. That was the theme of the big data panel discussion at the 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards. "Market research is moving away from panel research and into social intelligence," said Chris Camillo, CEO and founder of TickerTags. He noted there are...

Foursquare, the check-in app launched in early 2009, may not strike you as a big data app. When its CEO, Dennis Crowley, stepped down from his role to become executive chairman in January 2016, the outlook for the company may have seemed grim. What was a social media app going to do if no one...

Foursquare predicted that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iPhone 6s sales will surpass previous records on launch day. Foursquare noted its foot traffic data is among the world's "largest database of information" and suggested Apple will sell 13-15 million iPhones over the...

Net neutrality, the principle that all Internet data should be treated equally and that access to that data should be free and unfettered, is the theme behind Wednesday’s Internet Slowdown Day. Many large websites, net neutrality advocates all, have banded together to demonstrate what...

Well-known Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is also a very successful technology investor. Thought at first to be merely a “dabbler,” Kutcher finally convinced Wall Street that he was serious. Since Kutcher’s involvement in a company or project inspires others to join...

Saying Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was too rooted in hardware at the expense of data and the cloud, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures predicted Monday that the company wouldn’t even be in the top three tech companies by 2020, according to TechCrunch. Wilson spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt...