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Apple, Google, Roku in close race for streaming device lead

A survey of consumers planning to buy streaming video players finds no clear leader among Alphabet (GOOGL) -owned Google, Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Roku. Management consulting firm CG42 surveyed more than 21,000 U.S. consumers and found that 18% might purchase a streaming device this holiday season. And almost half of those (47%) plan to use it as a replacement for their pay-TV subscription. The online survey revealed that 5% of

Apple, Google Android E-Pay Must Offer Perks To Grow

Apple (AAPL) Pay, Samsung Pay, Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Android Pay and other mobile wallet offerings “will take off in 2016,” said an eMarketer report on Monday. Even as acceptance of e-commerce and mobile commerce has risen over the past decade, “trillions of dollars are transacted annually in the U.S. at brick-and-mortar retailers — a reality that isn’t going away anytime soon, if ever,” eMarketer’s report said. “But the divide between digital and

Facebook, Google Ready To Grab More Ad Spending In Q4

Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google is poised to accelerate its ad spending in Q4, with mobile product listing ads underpinning that growth, Mizuho analyst Neil Doshi said Friday in a research report. Budgets for Google search ads could accelerate to 20% to 25% year-over-year growth in Q4, up from the mid- to high-teen year-over-year growth in Q4 2015, Doshi wrote following presentations at the Search Insider Summit 2015 conference in Utah this week.