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40% of iPhone 6 owners have used Apple Pay
Less than five months after its launch, Apple Pay has made major inroads in the mobile payments market, a new survey shows. Apple (AAPL) launched its contactless payment service on Oct. 20 and has been steadily adding retailers and supporting banks since then. The service is only available to owners of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus phones, but a sizable chunk of them have at least tried Apple Pay. Based on recent survey data, Baird Equity Research estimates that nearly 40% of iPhone 6 series handset owners have used Apple Pay. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus began their global rollout on Sept. 19 in the U.S. and nine other markets. Overall, 40% of online consumers surveyed have made at least one in-store purchase using their mobile phone. Among those who have used a mobile payment service, eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal was the top preferred method of payment at 13%, followed…
10 relics of the dot-com era trading well below their old highs
Tuesday will mark the 15-year anniversary of the peak of the dot-com stock bubble, when the Nasdaq Composite index hit a record of 5132.50. While some tech stocks, including Priceline (PCLN), Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY), have clawed their way back and surpassed their dot-com era highs, many more have not. Big-name tech stocks still underwater from the Internet boom years include Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and EMC (EMC). A lot of the companies that came to typify the go-go dot-com era no longer exist because of bankruptcies or mergers and acquisitions. But a few living fossils from that era are still around, some miles below their all-time highs. What follows are 10 of those stocks. Yahoo Yahoo (YHOO) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. But a bigger time to party was January 2000, when Yahoo stock hit a split-adjusted high of 125.03. During the dot-com crash, shares traded…