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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is rumored to have closed Beats Music, the streaming music portion of Beats Electronics. The company has since denied this claim, but additional reports claim the Beats Music brand will be eliminated.  "The [Apple] brand is incredibly strong, so I was...

Contactless payments, even though they have been around for a long time, have not gained a lot of traction with the public. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hopes to change that with its Apple Pay, NFC-based wireless payment system. In-Store Transactions Using the Near Field Communication (NFC)...

Companies most likely to offer workers the opportunity to work from home are those involved in health care, IT, education, nonprofit and sales, according to Forbes. The list of companies that offer telecommuting options is surprisingly extensive. One website, Flexjobs, has created a database of...

News of the recent partnership between European drugmaker Novartis (NYSE: NVS) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) to develop a contact lens designed to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetics has drawn attention to several other new diabetes treatment developments. Information Week...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still rumored to be interested in purchasing Beats Electronics. The deal was supposed to be announced a couple of weeks ago, but Apple has yet to confirm its intent to buy the company. On May 22, TechCrunch reported that the deal is likely to happen. A "well-placed...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will reportedly buy Beats for $3.2 billion as early as next week according to the Financial Times. The big question is why? The answer, Re/Code said, comes in two-parts - headphones and streaming. For $3.2 billion, more than Apple has paid for any acquisition, the company...

Any big new project by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) would be, by definition, news. Such was the case when sources told Re/code that the company had been interviewing senior payments industry executives ahead of a plan to launch an electronic payments business. With nearly 600 million iTunes accounts –...

Strange as it seems, it would appear that is the case. Whether it is an “under the radar” feature by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or comes with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) blessing, was not known according to iMore. What is known is that Passbook, a feature of iOS 6 that allows users to store tickets,...

Hulu and iTunes may be a popular source for video streams or downloads, but Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has overtaken both formats in terms of bandwidth. "I think the growth, you probably can attribute it to [Amazon bundling] Instant Video inside Amazon Prime," Dan Sahar, co-founder and VP of Product...

Last fall, Benzinga wrote about the deluge of streaming video players. Now it's time to tackle another area that has become bloated with too many options: streaming music. Ranging from straight radio to full on-demand services, the streaming music business is one of the most overcrowded...

It’s Monday and that means there’s some Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) news to catch up on from the weekend. Here are three headlines you might have missed. Nearly 20 Percent of iPhone Owners Now Using a 5S According to analytics firm Mixpanel and reported by AppleInsider, the iPhone 5S now accounts...

Beats Music, the new subscription Internet radio service, has officially launched for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. But, in such a crowded market, can the newcomer succeed? There are already extremely popular streaming music services, including Spotify, which just announced that it...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently acquired social search company Topsy Labs Inc. for at least $200 million. Never heard of Topsy? If you’re looking to analyze all of the Twitter data since 2006, Topsy is (or was) your company of choice. You could figure out...

In developing and evolving Fetchnotes, a note-taking app for Android and iOS, the team began to realize that it was time for a change. "We attracted over 80,000 people, but we noticed two things," Alex Schiff, Fetchnotes' co-founder and CEO, told Benzinga. "One was that it was really hard to get...