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Following a The Wall Street Journal report that General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) subsidiary, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., would unmask a new business jet Tuesday, speculation about the aircraft has kept Wall Street analysts busy. The jet's anticipated appearance was unusual...

Carl Icahn has been very open about what he wants from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- including an Ultra HD television set. More than anything, Icahn wants a buyback. Is this good for Apple and its investors, or would it be better if Icahn and other activist investors backed off? "I think...

Parkmobile, an online parking service, first entered U.S. markets in 2008. More than 30 states have adopted the service, allowing consumers to pay for parking at more than 600 locations. "Parkmobile was the first provider of pay-by-phone parking," Cherie Fuzzell, CEO of Parkmobile, told...

Expectations are high for Alcoa Inc's (NYSE: AA) third quarter results (scheduled for release following Wednesday's market close), but analysts are already looking to the company's future benefits. "Clearly, Ford's F-150 is going to have a lot of aluminum content,"...

GasBuddy.com chief oil analyst Tom Kloza told Benzinga Monday afternoon, "I believe that in the next 24 hours, you’ll see the lowest national price point for regular unleaded of 2014." According to Kloza, the lowest U.S. average price for regular unleaded gasoline so...

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) confirmed Monday that the company will split into two separate entities. The deal comes a few years after Hewlett-Packard ceased plans to spin off its PC business. Those plans appear to have been reignited earlier this year, and now the printing division is...

New Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) retail outlets are cropping up all over the place. The Windows maker will open several new locations next month, including a store in Dallas, Texas on November 8 and another in Bethesda, Maryland on November 22. The expansion will continue in 2015 when...

Drones have been in the news a lot lately. From a commercial perspective, drones hold a tantalizing amount of potential, and some companies have been stepping up their investments in drone technology. Not long ago, E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced an interest in...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) teased its next OS this week and announced that will be called Windows 10. The new version contains a real Start button and looks like a cross between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Thomas H. Yorke, managing director of Oceanic Capital Management, told Benzinga...

A recent University of Michigan study concluded that a majority of Americans had a positive opinion about self-driving vehicles. Most people who have read about automated vehicles have likely read about Google Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) highly publicized attempts to build an autonomous car....

Shares of McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) on Monday climbed as high as 2.7 percent, marking the largest percentage gain of the year for the world’s biggest restaurant company. With nearly three times the regular volume, shares reached $97.30 at one point during Monday’s...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s (NYSE: WMT) plan to partner with prepaid-card company Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) to offer checking accounts to unbanked Wal-Mart customers is the retail giant's latest effort to enter the financial sector. Wal-Mart's previous attempts had U.S....

SoftBank (OTC: SFTBF), a Japanese telecommunications company, is reportedly in talks with DreamWorks Animation Skg Inc (NASDAQ: DWA) about a possible merger. The deal (which is valued at $32 per share, or $3.4 billion) was originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter. A later report by Variety...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is about to close its acquisition of International Business Machines Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) low-end server business. The $2.1 billion deal is one of many that Lenovo has used to bolster its company. Previously, Lenovo purchased IBM's consumer PC business. Earlier this...

Isabella Tanikumi might have a difficult time proving her case against The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Tanikumi (whose birth name is Amy Gonzalez) sued Disney for $250 million. She claims that "Frozen," the studio's biggest animated film, takes most of its ideas from her book...