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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk sent Signal downloads soaring as he advocated for the messaging app last week. The app was installed 7.5 million times on Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android app stores between Jan. 6 and Jan. 10,...

Another case of mistaken identity has sent a penny stock soaring over the last several trading sessions. What Happened: Signal Advance (OTC: SIGL) saw a bump in its share price Monday as traders and algorithms are confusing the company with an app. Signal, a private messaging service, has seen...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said Monday that he is a benefactor to the messaging app Signal.  What Happened: The entrepreneur said on Twitter early Monday that he had donated to Signal a year ago and he will “donate more.” The free and open-source messaging app saw a...

Investors mistakenly ran up a stock 1100% during the last two days of the week's trading, after getting ahead of themselves when they saw a tweet from Elon Musk. What Happened: The Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) founder and CEO on Thursday tweeted a message of support for the encrypted...

Quant hedge funds have significant power over the market—they control nearly a third of the daily liquid volume traded. When stocks make strange moves, such as when O’Reilly Auto Parts shares started to move when Bill O’Reilly was in the headlines, traders often blame the unusual...

After attending day one of the developer conference SIGNAL in San Francisco held this week, JMP Securities is reiterating its Market Outperform rating on API provider Twilio, Inc (NYSE: TWLO). “The good news is that we believe Twilio is doing the right things to win in this category,”...

WikiLeaks is at it again, exposing the skeletons in the CIA's closet. This time around, the Julian Assange-run organization, which credits itself for publishing secret, sensitive information on matters such as war, spying and corruption, had a rich haul of information in the form of documents,...

The latest consumer survey from Signal shows just how dominant of a position Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has established in the U.S. holiday shopping market. But it also provides some reasons for hope for competing retailers. Incredibly, 42 percent of the more than 1,500 consumers surveyed...

A new analysis shows that there are both signals and noises in asset markets, Stuart Reid wrote on Turing Finance. Reid "developed a 'meta test' for market randomness tests based on greedy lossless compression algorithms which indicate that such tests are highly sensitive to any noise." He also...