People getting an Apple Watch this Christmas should brace themselves for buyer’s remorse three months from now. That’s because Apple (AAPL) reportedly is planning to introduce its second-generation Apple Watch in March. Apple news website 9to5Mac reported Tuesday that Apple is planning a March event to unveil the Apple Watch 2, with plans to ship the product by April. Apple announced its first-generation smartwatch on Sept. 9, 2014. It detailed
Makers of active car safety technology components jumped Tuesday afternoon as U.S. regulators said 5-Star Safety Ratings will soon specify crash-avoidance technologies. Despite a down day for major indexes, camera vision chip maker Ambarella (AMBA) was up more than 3% in late-afternoon trading and Mobileye (MBLY) swung into positive territory. Both make advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS. NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) was trading up 1.5% a
Apple (AAPL) supplier NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) muscled by completing its $12 billion acquisition of smaller peer Freescale Semiconductor, making it No. 5 by market value in IBD’s 46-company Electronics-Semiconductor Fabless industry group. With a $20.4 billion market cap, NXP trails only Qualcomm (QCOM), Avago Technologies (AVGO), Broadcom (BRCM) — all fellow Apple suppliers — and ARM Holdings (ARMH) . In late-afternoon trading on the stock