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Apple Pay, Facebook ‘Buy’ Button May Boost M-Commerce

Apple Pay and Facebook’s (FB) “buy” button could help solve a problem with mobile commerce: Smartphone users tend to browse for products but often don’t pull the trigger to buy. Apple Pay, Apple’s (AAPL) mobile wallet, supports in-store shopping at retail checkout as well as “in-app” purchases for Uber, Groupon (GRPN), Target (TGT), Disney (DIS) stores and others. “There is no support for mobile browser-based payments yet, though I speculate we’ll

Tesla Home, Utility Batteries: ‘The Missing Piece’?

Now calling itself an “energy innovation company,” Tesla Motors (TSLA) introduced Tesla Energy, a “suite of batteries for homes, businesses and utilities,” with partners such as Amazon.com (AMZN) and Target (TGT). “Our goal here is to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy at an extreme scale — we’re talking terawatt scale here,” CEO Elon Musk told press in a Q&A session ahead of the reveal event in the Los Angeles area. Tesla

Meet 4 hot security stocks as hacking attacks make headlines

With major hacking attacks on Sony (SNE) and other corporations top of mind lately, it’s little wonder that security software stocks are doing well. IBD’s Computer Software-Security group ranks No. 1 out of 197 industry groups, as it also did four weeks ago. IBD ranks industry groups based on six-month stock price performance. Besides Sony, other companies that hackers have targeted recently include Staples (SPLS), Target (TGT), Home Depot (HD) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM). Here are the top four computer security software stocks based on IBD’s SmartSelect Composite Ratings. Vasco Data Security International. (VDSI) has seen its shares rise nearly 280% since the start of the year. In afternoon trading, Vasco was up 1%, above 29, on the Stock Market Today. The company, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is No. 1 in providing two-factor authentication and electronic signature software to financial institutions. Qualys (QLYS) shares have risen 72% this