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Nielsen Rating Could Boost TV Online, Via Adobe Pact

Paving the way for more streaming television online, for the first time a Nielsen (NLSN) rating will count who’s watching a show beyond the traditional television — on PCs and laptops, Apple (AAPL) iPads and other tablets, smartphones, and whatever’s delivered to your TV via an Internet connection. It’s likely to help broadcasters and other program providers do everything from set advertising rates for online video to, potentially, make decisions

Apple Smashes Q4 Views On Hot iPhone 6, Mac Sales

Apple trounced Wall Street forecasts late Monday due to red-hot sales of its iPhone 6 smartphones and Mac computers. The tech titan also guided sales estimates higher for the holiday quarter. For its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 27, Apple (AAPL) earned $1.42 a share, up 20% from a year earlier and topping analysts’ consensus forecast by 11 cents. Sales rose 12% to $42.1 billion, easily beating the target of $39.88 billion. It

Verizon Q3 Earnings Eyed As iPhone 6 Indicator

Verizon Communications’ (VZ) Q3 earnings, out before the open Tuesday, are expected to rise 17% to 90 cents, with revenue rising 4% to $31.58 billion, as analysts eye mobile phone-only net subscriber additions in the wake of Apple’s late-September rollout of the iPhone 6. The devices, which went on sale on Sept. 19, will likely affect the Q4 results of Verizon, AT&T (T), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile US (TMUS) more so than Q3. Apple (AAPL) itself is set