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Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) is planning to spend a colossal amount of money on just one video game. According to Reuters, the company -- which is famous for producing the Call of Duty franchise -- could spend as much as $500 million on Destiny. Set for release on September 9, 2014, Destiny is...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to unveil its first seven-inch tablet at an event later this month. Rumors claim that the device will contain a 7.5-inch display with a resolution of 1,400 x 1,050 pixels. That would make the screen smaller and the resolution lower than the iPad Mini with...

New images continue to indicate that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is building its first smartphone. But is this a product that the company actually needs to release? Needham & Co. analyst Kerry Rice thinks Amazon should not bother entering this crowded and highly competitive market. "I don't...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One has sold five million units worldwide, but that hasn't been enough to keep up with its chief competitor. Will this force Microsoft to adjust its strategy in promoting Xbox One at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo? Robert W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian...

AdTheorent, a mobile ad firm, has uncovered some interesting traits among Android and iOS users across its network. The company found that Android users were 17 percent more likely to click on ads than their Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) counterparts. That data only applies to devices that are...

A changing of the guard at Ford (NYSE: F). On Thursday, the auto-maker announced Alan Mulally will step down as CEO on July 1, about six months earlier than anticipated – and will be replaced in that position by Ford COO Mark Fields. Mulally, a former top executive at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) rose more than eight percent after the company announced a surprise 7-for-1 stock split. As of this writing, Apple is hovering near $600 -- an achievement not seen since November 2012. Before earnings and the stock split were revealed, Creative Global predicted that...

It's official. As reported by Benzinga on Monday, Toyota (NYSE: TM) has announced it is moving its North American headquarters from Torrence, California to Plano, Texas. The move makes Toyota just the latest major company to leave California for other states over the past several years – an...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reduced the price of the MacBook Air by $100 for the third year in a row. Consumers will now pay $999 for a brand-new 13-inch MacBook Air, or $899 for the 11-inch model. In addition to the price cut, Apple tweaked the MacBook Air with improved battery life (12 hours on...

CEOs say the darndest things. Mike Jeffries, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), has repeatedly insulted consumers by saying that he only wants certain kinds of people (the "good-looking" ones) to shop at his store. Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) founder and former CEO Chip Wilson got in...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) tablet franchise is not performing as poorly as some had feared, but iPad sales are definitely declining. "They were low," Andy Hargreaves, Senior Research Analyst of Digital Media at Pacific Crest Securities, told Benzinga. "Our estimates were low compared to most people's...

Higher prices are impacting two of the largest streaming video sites. Will Hulu be next? Earlier this spring Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it would raise the price of its streaming video and two-day shipping service, Amazon Prime, from $79 to $99 per year. That price increase has now gone...

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...

Sony and Samsung may have been the first to market, but Trip Chowdhry thinks that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will dominate as soon as it enters the wearable technology market. "When we go to these conferences and when we talk to the developers, developers are very excited with what Google is going to...

Cable companies for years have been denying the existence of viable competition. Former Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) CEO Glenn Britt even admitted this denial in a Q3 2013 conference call. “When I first got this job 12 years ago, I think the cable industry as a whole, including our company,...