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This story is part of a new series of features on the subject of success, Benzinga Inspire. Success is subjective, but there are a few simple tricks that can help boost intelligence and accelerate your progress on whatever path you have chosen to pursue.  What To Know: According to a...

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...

After a four-year hiatus to co-found and lead Jelly Industries, Inc., another member of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR)’s co-founding team is coming home. “There’s something about the personality of a company that comes from the folks who start it,” Biz Stone wrote in a Tuesday...

Shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) were trading lower by around 10 percent ahead of Thursday's market open after the company's fourth-quarter earnings report wasn't well received by investors. Twitter did report an earnings beat, but revenue of $717 million fell short of the $740 million Wall...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is finding it hard to find supporters in Silicon Valley. In fact, the list of supporters is quite short but does contain one notable name: billionaire investor Peter Thiel. In an open letter to Trump, a group of inventors, entrepreneurs,...

After the Financial Crisis, it’s understandable that many people harbor resentment for the financial community. But Medium’s Mike Yu recently defended financial markets. “Finance serves as society’s allocator of capital and risk, over parties and states of the world,”...

It's not the first time Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)'s Elon Musk has opened up about media coverage, the way he handles his public image or his interactions with others. However, this time, the criticism landed splat on journalists and a "super rude" customer. Must be a slow news day if denying...

This article was first published on Medium and is written by Filipe Castro Matos (@filipecmatos). It was republished with permission. On April 2, I put myself to a new challenge. It was one of the biggest life hacks I’ve ever done. The challenge was simple: waking up 21 consecutive...