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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has collectively sold more tablets than any other individual manufacturer, but its success may not continue in the coming months. According to Gartner, Apple sold 70 million iPads in 2013. More than 100 million tablets were sold before that, which means that Apple should cross...

New Study Links Casual Marijuana Use To Brain Abnormalities A study conducted at Northwestern University links casual, recreational marijuana use to abnormalities in key regions of the brain. The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, focused on 20 causal smokers and 20 non-smokers...

Cable television is losing steam to Internet streaming services. A new report from Experian Marketing Services says there is a growing number of people who have high-speed Internet, but no cable or satellite television subscription. These “cord-cutters” have jumped in number from 5....

Congratulations, Michiganders! Thursday, April 17 is Tax Freedom Day. But what does that mean, exactly? Tax Freedom Day is the day when American as a whole has earned enough to pay its total tax bill for the year, according to Lyman Stone, an economist at the Tax Foundation's Center for...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has become the dominant player in cord-cutting, pay-TV content, but Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is determined to level the playing field. The dot-com retailer recently purchased the streaming rights for the first eight seasons of the hit TV series 24. This deal came after Netflix...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is known for pioneering and perfecting new technology, but investors may not be aware that the company also pioneered a popular tax strategy. "What they basically do is set up international corporations, particularly in Ireland, which is a lower tax country than the U.S.,"...

Game of Thrones is one of the most popular shows on cable, earning an average of six million viewers for the first airing of new episodes. That number rises with each repeat airing, along with online streams from Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) HBO Go. Peer-to-peer downloads greatly increase the total...

Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) HBO is losing millions of dollars to a large number of Game of Thrones fans who can't or won't subscribe to cable. Tru Optik, a startup that provides real-time and predictive audience intelligence for the media, entertainment and advertising industries, estimates that HBO...

The headlines have been scary, especially for the carnivores among us -- beef prices are at their highest level in decades and the overall U.S. cattle herd at its smallest since 1951. But industry experts say there's more to those numbers than meets the media's eye. Lance Zimmerman, an analyst...

You have to respect an analyst that drops coverage of a stock so he can short it. Rich Tullo of Albert Fried & Company has done just that with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). Although he has been a bit early on his original call on the issue, he has stuck to his guns and has been finally been rewarded...

NBC has retained its status as the late-night leader, but can it continue to stay on top when Stephen Colbert comes to town? Colbert will take over for David Letterman when he retires next year. The early buzz has been positive, but Jimmy Fallon's ratings have set the standard for the new...

There are a lot of explanations for the stoner term, “420.” Some people say it represents 4:20 p.m., the time immediately after classes when a group of California high school students in the 1970s used to gather to get high. Whatever its origins, 420 has entered the U.S. lexicon as a reference...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) are currently embroiled in another legal battle involving patents. Unlike the last one, which ended in a $1 billion verdict that was later reduced, this patent fight has provided investors with some valuable information. "The main benefit that...

The clock is ticking for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited smart watch. Rumors claim that it could arrive in September 2014, but investors shouldn't forget that Apple was also expected to release a wearable device last September. Unfortunately, it might be too late for Apple to enter the market...

Last summer, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was reportedly on the verge of an employee retention problem. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry researched the topic and found a growing number of Apple employees had apparently left the company for new positions with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and...