Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOGL) and Facebook (FB) will have a bigger impact on this year’s holiday shopping than ever before, a new study finds. Mobile devices and social media sites will play a bigger role in consumer buying habits during the Christmas gift-buying period, says a survey from MarketLive, an e-commerce technology services company. Apple stock was up a fraction in early trading in the stock market today, but shares of Google and
A survey of U.S. teenagers by Piper Jaffray bodes well for Apple, Netflix and GameStop. Piper Jaffray interviewed about 7,200 high school students nationwide for its 28th semi-annual teen survey. Among other things, the survey showed that teens continue to love the Apple (AAPL) iPhone and iPad, but aren’t that interested in the company’s upcoming Apple Watch smartwatch. The iPhone remains the top smartphone among teens, with 67% market share in the fall survey. That’s up from 61% in Piper Jaffray’s spring survey. Apple’s share gain from the spring came almost entirely at the expense of Google (GOOGL) Android devices, which lost five percentage points, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a report late Tuesday. “We also note that 73% of teens stated that they expect their next phone to be an iPhone and thus there remains continued upside to Apple’s share in teen smartphones,” Munster said. Meanwhile, Apple…
EBay’s PayPal and others with a head start in online payments might see Apple’s thrust into mobile payments whittle away their advantage, says Mercator Advisory Group. Besides eBay (EBAY) — which early Tuesday announced that it would spin off payments unit PayPal next year — those facing a testier future because of Apple’s (AAPL) emergence in mobile payments include Google (GOOGL) and Softcard, the partnership of wireless firms AT&T (T), Verizon