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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

Twitter Jumps As Ad Plan Monetizes ‘Logged-Out’ Users

Aiming to make money from the millions of people who don’t have Twitter (TWTR) accounts, the social network on Thursday said that it will show ads, interspersed with tweets, to those “logged out” users. Twitter stock lifted 6.6% Thursday in response, and was trading up almost another 2% after hours. The company has launched a test program allowing advertisers to reach out to the estimated 500 million people who visit Twitter each month without

Bluebird Bio Craters After Gene Therapy Disappoints

Biotech Bluebird Bio plunged to a 52-week low Monday after the latest data on its gene therapy for severe anemia failed to live up to the promise of earlier data, leading to several downgrades. On Sunday at the annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference, Bluebird (BLUE) detailed its early-stage findings on patients with sickle-cell disease (SCD) and beta-thalassemia, two genetic diseases that cause anemia, who were treated with its