Apple’s (AAPL) smartwatch, the Apple Watch, is once again the most talked-about product of the 2015 holiday shopping season, according to IBM Watson Trend. Apple Watch was the top trending product when IBM (IBM) debuted its IBM Watson Trend App for the holiday shopping season on Nov. 18. But Samsung TVs surpassed it during the Black Friday sales weekend as consumers buzzed about low-cost 4K ultrahigh-definition television deals. The IBM Watson
A gang of Iranian hackers who spent nearly two years targeting U.S., Saudi Arabian and Israeli researchers and duped 26% of its targets into handing over their credentials failed at the most rudimentary protection: locking its own back door. So Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) walked right in, Shahar Tal, one of the company’s researchers, told IBD. The hackers’ database coding was “configured to be viewable to any visitor,” Tal said.
Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock powered up more than 5% Wednesday as a Credit Suisse analyst predicted the luxury electric-car maker can meet its fourth-quarter deliveries target. The company’s Q4 volume guidance “looks achievable,” Reuters quotes analyst Dan Galves as saying, noting that he expects questions about volume for the quarter and the production ramp for Tesla’s new Model X SUV “to be addressed in a positive way” by early January. Tesla