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In a recent article, The Wall Street Journal noted that the U.S. airline industry has seen a rise in startups. The newcomers use a variety of business models to try to survive in an industry that has historically not been kind to newbies. One of the main obstacles to success for many startups...

When it comes to finance, investing and M&A, everybody wants a crystal ball. SaaS provider Intralinks (NYSE: IL) thinks it has one. Statistically Significant It’s called the Intralinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI). Analysis & Inference Inc., an independent...

Columbus, Ohio native Zack Danger Brown did not hide the fact that he wanted to make potato salad. Not satisfied with simply telling his friends and relatives on Facebook or Twitter, he took his desire to Kickstarter. "Basically I'm just making potato salad," Brown wrote on his...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Verge, may be ready to beta test a new version of Office, this one for Android tablets. Sources told The Verge that Microsoft was preparing a private beta test for the Office for Android tablet version and that the company was accepting participants...

First, Sr. Pago brought mobile point of sale (mPOS) to Mexico. Now, with the help of MasterCard (NYSE: MA), it plans to bring banking to the ‘unbanked.’ The Sr. Pago Card System, consisting of a smartphone-based chip credit card reader and reloadable MasterCard debit...

National Penn Bancshares (NASDAQ: NPBC), parent of National Penn Bank, announced Wednesday that it would acquire TF Financial (NASDAQ: THRD), parent of 3rd Fed Bank, in a cash and stock deal through which TF Financial shareholders would receive either $42.00 in cash or 4.22 shares...

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino’s entry into the NFL concussion-related lawsuit arena on May 28 created buzz. And that buzz, according to Darren Heitner, Founder and Chief Editor of Sports Agent Blog, could be his most important contribution. On Tuesday, Heitner told Benzinga...

Tony Hill, Intralinks's (NYSE: IL) director of leading online social dealmaking platform, Intralinks DealNexus, said that in 2013 “Intralinks DealNexus saw a 99 percent increase in the number of actionable M&A opportunities hosted on the platform.” According to Hill, who spoke with...

Doug Kass has read each of these books 10 times or more -- have you? They include a number of classics that many investors already have in their collections. But there are other, lesser-known books that stand to provide invaluable information to those who read them. During an interview with #...

Legendary hedge fund manager Doug Kass joined the Benzinga crew on PreMarket Prep this week to share his views on just about everything. During the interview, Kass explained why social media is his least favorite sector. "I think the entire social media sector, we're gonna look back and most of...

Is it fun to raise money for charity? It can be. Over the past two years, Benzinga's Jason Shubnell stripped down to his skivvies and ran a mile in freezing weather to support the Children's Tumor Foundation. "Sure, many of the people were there to party and drink, but all of our money went...

It could be a mistake or it could be a secret public release, but if you go here, right now, you can apparently order Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass (for $1,500). Will your order be filled? There has been no announcement and BGR said it was possible the page went live accidently. It’s also...

Is BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) the next big play? J.C. Parets, Founder and President of Eagle Bay Capital and the man behind All Star Charts, thinks that the mobile tech company could double in value. "When we broke below the 2012 lows and quickly recovered -- we got that false breakdown -- to me...

During the market low of 2009, most of the companies that Tom Petruno, contributing writer for Kiplinger's Personal Finance, features on his list of “The 10 Best Stocks of the Bull Market” were all on their way to bankruptcy. This excludes the biotech companies Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC) and...