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IBM’s Watson Says Apple Watch Tops Holiday Hot List

The Apple (AAPL) Watch is hot. So are Samsung TVs, Nike (NKE) running shoes and Activision Blizzard’s (ATVI) “Call of Duty” video game. So sayeth the IBM (IBM) Watson Trend app, which uses its “understanding of natural language and machine learning technologies” to sort through 10,000 online sources — think Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), blogs, forums, reviews, etc. — to determine which products will be hot this holiday season. Each item’s trend

‘Apple-as-a-Service’ commands higher valuation

Apple’s (AAPL) prospects are looking up as the consumer electronics firm shifts from a transactional business model around selling its latest hardware to a recurring revenue model, Goldman Sachs analyst Simona Jankowski said in a report Wednesday. Jankowski added Apple to Goldman’s Conviction Buy List with a price target of 163. Apple stock was up 2.6% to near 117 in afternoon trading on the stock market today. “We expect that over the next year,

Facebook, Apple Supplier Among 5 Top Big Cap Leaders

As the bull market matures, companies that boast strong growth as well as size are in demand. IBD’s Screen Of The Day is Big Cap Leaders, top-rated big-cap companies that are sorted by Composite Rating, an overall measure of a stock’s strength based on earnings and several other fundamental and technical factors. Today’s screen includes five tech leaders at the top of their games: Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL) iPhone chip designer ARM Holdings