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A see-saw first couple of weeks continued for Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT) Monday after the stock dipped 3.5 percent to once again fall back below its $72 IPO price. The stock was trading down another 3.67 percent Tuesday afternoon.  While the dust settles on Lyft’s share price, traders are...

Investor and StockTwits co-founder Howard Lindzon has coined a term that he says determines which brands will stand the test of the time: "fashology." Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the global pioneer of the category, as it makes consumer technology devices the fashionable status symbol of...

Benzinga is hosting a StockTwits Detroit meetup at its headquarters with a focus on pre-market trading from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27. Guests are welcome to enjoy pizza and refreshments with fellow stock market enthusiasts. The event is free and attendees can RSVP here. At 6:30 p.m., a panel...

A few months ago, they were given warning. Now, social media sites have been given an ultimatum — change their terms of service, or pay a fine. The European Commission had pressured Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) in a...

StockTwits, the popular social media platform that brings together investors, traders and entrepreneurs to share investment ideas, named a new CEO Wednesday. Ian Rosen, co-founder of Even Financial and a former general manager at MarketWatch, will replace StockTwits' founder Howard Lindzon as CEO....

Howard Lindzon hosted a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Thursday. Lindzon is a Canadian analyst and angel investor who started managing his own hedge fund in 1998. He launched Wallstrip in 2006, which was later acquired by CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS). He founded StockTwits in 2008 and has...

Many exchange-traded funds know about the social media ETF, a fund that holds companies such as Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). With Tuesday's debut of the Sprott Buzz Social Media Insights ETF (NYSE: BUZ), there is now an ETF targeting companies receiving bullish...

Typically, a stock that has declined as much as GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO)’s stock has will inspire a swing in value-driven or contrarian bullish sentiment in the market. However, as GoPro’s stock dips into the single digits, down more than 80 percent in the past year, the latest data...

ETFs offer investors the ability to invest in a particular theme while maintaining the protection of diversification. However, when one company expands its business so much that it has its claws in every aspect of a particular market, it can become almost like an ETF unto its own. That may be...

Political intelligence website GovBrain uses an automated process to analyze political "events," then ties them to a ticker symbol as a way of determining how government decisions affect the financial markets. The name, GovBrain, which founder Dr. Brent M. Eastwood admitted seemed to...

This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Alright, this is pretty profound. Internet parity. What the? In other words: the day when every adult on the planet has access to the Internet. Someone will have to make that day a Holiday. Right now, we're not very close -- some...