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This weekend's Barron's cover story presents the results from the Barron's 2020 Midyear Roundtable. Other featured articles look how to manage risk in a time of market volatility and which companies the U.S. government is and is not bailing out. Also, the prospects for some retail...

Fans of popular streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins have been waiting anxiously for his return after Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Mixer was dissolved and handed over to Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Gaming. Speculation favored his return to Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch...

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards — a day of dealmaking, networking and recognition in the financial technology space — takes places Nov. 10.  In recognition of those disruptive innovators creating positive and diverse change within the financial services...

The Last Week In A Nutshell What Happened: The S&P 500 experienced its best quarter since 1998, adding 20%. "A 20% quarterly gain is quite rare, but the catch is previous large quarterly gains have actually led to continued strength. In fact, a quarter later stocks have been higher...

The origin of the term blue-chip comes from the world of poker, where blue-colored chips are the highest available denomination in the game. In finance, however, blue-chips are among the highest valued companies. That said, in light of the COVID-19 coronavirus which...

CircleCI, a continuous integration, and delivery platform, formally announced the closure of a $100 million Series E funding round, led by IVP and Sapphire Ventures. CircleCI is a globally recognized engineering technology that allows for rapid automation of the building, testing and...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) announced Monday that it is surveying users for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms to help research efforts at Carnegie Mellon University. What Happened The social media platform's users in the United States will see a prompt for the optional survey at the top of...

As the economy is plunging into recession, Big Tech is not only doing well but thriving. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hiring aggressively to meet the surging demand, YouTube has soaring traffic, Mark Zuckerberg's dream of a world community on Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is...

Benzinga is covering every angle of how the coronavirus affects the financial world. For daily updates, sign up for our coronavirus newsletter. Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) apps are experiencing a surge in user activity in pandemic hit countries, and the social media giant says maintaining...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a top bank and the FANG stocks. Bearish calls included many oil stocks and the iPhone maker. The U.S. markets had another tough week due to the one-two punch of an unexpected oil...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has removed more than a million products from its e-commerce platform that attempted to profit from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, CNBC reported Thursday. What Happened Any account that makes false claims about curing the coronavirus or...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will pay users $5 for sharing their voice recordings, the company announced Thursday. What Happened The voice recordings would be used for improving Facebook's speech recognition technology, as first reported by The Verge. Users of Facebook's Viewpoints app, aimed...