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Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are out and it seems like brick and mortar giant, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.(NYSE: WMT) is now also giving tough competition to its online counterparts. Wal-Mart announced having sold more goods than ever on a single day this Cyber Monday. Wal-Mart’s new CEO...

International Data Corporation (IDC) on Tuesday released its top 10 predictions for the worldwide information and telecommunications technology (ICT) industry in 2015. 1. Worldwide ICT spending will grow 3.8 percent to more than $3.8 trillion. 2. Telecommunications services will see wireless...

Understanding the role of Starbucks Corporation’s (NASDAQ: SBUX) planned 2015 rollout of its food and beverage delivery service would require a step back and a broader view of context, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Nick Setyan. Setyan told Benzinga he saw the delivery...

Read Part I of this story here. MediaFirst Vice President Becky Boyd told Benzinga that online purchases are going to generate more sales than those in-store. The coming sales opportunity means companies’ online stores need to be more streamlined and easier to use than ever. Cleaning Up...

Alibaba.com is big. From a transaction volume standpoint, $240 billion big, according to Wall Street Journal sources. That’s twice the size of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and three times the size of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). From a revenue perspective, however, Alibaba’s nearly $8 billion in 2013 revenue...

The world's largest social networking website is jumping into the financial services sector. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is only weeks away from getting the regulatory approval it needs in Ireland for a service that would allow users to store money on the social network site, as well as use it to pay...

Everybody talks about how people are ditching their “computers” for mobile devices, but there’s more to the switch than trading devices. Another mobile stat that proves the traditional Internet is dying just as fast. According to new data from analytics company, Flurry, U.S. consumers are...

In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, CEO James McCann and VP of Investor Relations Joe Pititto of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ: FLWS) discussed preparation for Valentine's Day. One of the biggest changes the company is seeing this holiday is an increase in social and mobile interaction. 1-800-...

This is the second to a two part interview with Vivek Ranadive following Tibco's fourth quarter earnings. Read Ranadive's comments on the company's valuation. Read Benzinga's exclusive interview with Vivek following the third quarter report. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Tibco (...

If you’re wondering why Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) went from the stock that everybody loved to hate to the most celebrated social media success story of 2013, you might take a look at its mobile metrics. Remember the days of the haters hurling the “Facebook has failed to figure out mobile...

First, there were rumors that Sprint (NYSE: S) was flirting with the notion of acquiring T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS). Despite a pretty good case for a possible merger made by The Wall Street Journal, there was and is a catch: Should such a merger be approved, the market would end up dominated by...

In a move that has become more or less standard for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer, the company recently acquired DreamWorks Animation’s (NASDAQ: DWA) Ptch startup, which it will shut down January 2. Mayer has made a number of such “acquire-hire” moves since she took over leadership at...

Pandora Media (NYSE: P) is set to report its third quarter 2014 results after the closing bell on Thursday, November 21. The consensus EPS is $0.06, while consensus revenue is $174.8 million. Last quarter the company reported a $0.04 EPS, beating consensus by $0.02. Revenues also came in higher...