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How Apple Can Help Boost These IBD 50 Payment Stocks

Visa (V), Total System Services (TSS) and Global Payments (GPN) are IBD 50 companies that stand to benefit from the disruption in the payments sector that Apple (AAPL) could bring. Apple already has a mobile payment system, Apple Pay, that recently got a lift when drugstore giant Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) became the first retailer earlier this month to launch seamless loyalty-program integration with Apple Pay. And new features from Apple

Did Apple Watch give Fossil its ‘BlackBerry moment’?

Apple’s (AAPL) nascent smartwatch business is already having a big impact on at least one traditional watchmaker — Fossil Group (FOSL) — according to an outspoken Silicon Valley analyst. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry on Friday blamed Fossil’s third-quarter sales miss and lower earnings guidance on competition from Apple Watch. “Apple Watch is giving Fossil their BlackBerry, Nokia and Motorola moment,” he said in a research note,

China’s Huawei Racing Apple To Develop ‘Superphone’

Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple (AAPL), Samsung, Xiaomi and other rivals. It’s called the “superphone.” Huawei described the superphone at its “innovation” day in Singapore on Wednesday, according to the China Daily. By around 2020 or so, Huawei says, the superphone could start replacing smartphones. Huawei expects to take the lead in making them versus Apple, Samsung and others. The arrival of the