Some stock price could be manipulated most especially penny stocks, while others can't be easily only with change in policy and other methods which leads to inside trading. The answer to you question is quite broad really.
I prefer to make use of perfect money for every one of my transaction online. With the BVN thing and other forms of intense verification processes use by my country, bank wire is not an option for me.
The apple pay TV thing is not that impressive to me, no doubt apple is a kind of influencia and all, but we already more than enough TV streaming even some for free that most people are satisfied with. But naturally I do not see apple's coming south anytime soon.