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Play These 3 Companies to Get the Biggest Profits from CES 2016

By Tom Gentile, America's No. 1 Pattern Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades - January 7, 2016

One of the first important investing events of the year is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas.

CES is a dream world for tech fanatics. For investors and traders, it's a quick way to find growth in public companies.

So here are my top three picks to bet on from this year's CES, and the best way to maximize profits on each trade...

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Play These 3 Companies to Get the Biggest Profits from CES 2016

By Tom Gentile, America's No. 1 Pattern Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades - January 7, 2016

One of the first important investing events of the year is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas.

CES is a dream world for tech fanatics. For investors and traders, it's a quick way to find growth in public companies.

So here are my top three picks to bet on from this year's CES, and the best way to maximize profits on each trade...

CES 2015: How to Profit from the Hottest Tech Trends

By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - January 12, 2015

If we had to describe all of the amazing new products and technologies we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 last week, we'd need 10 of these columns.

Amid all the hype this year, the hugest buzz was about ultra-high-definition TV (UHDTV).

The focus on televisions isn't surprising for a consumer electronics-focused trade show filled with buyers from major online and big-box retailers. But there's also a reason for tech investors like you folks to pay attention as well.

According to the Consumer Electronics Association trade group, Americans will be buying 1.43 million UHDTV sets, or roughly 5% of televisions sold nationally, in 2016. That's a 60-fold increase from 2013, when UHDTVs debuted.

And, of course, there are ways for all of us to profit on all those UHDTVs our fellow Americans will be buying.

So, let's hit the floor of CES 2015 to find them...

CES 2015: The Top Tech Gems You'll Want the Most

By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - January 8, 2015

CES 2015: From the latest version of the Occulus Rift to sneakers with games built into them, Michael Robinson is taking it all in at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Per usual, he's reporting back with innovative investing ideas about the innovations he's seen. He's found the odd and the unexpected.

And the potentially hugely profitable...

The Consumer Electronics Show Will Ignite These Three Profit Plays

By William Patalon III, Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief - January 1, 2015

With 2 million square feet of exhibit space, 161,000 attendees and 20,000 product announcements, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the one of the hottest trade shows on Earth.

But the impact goes well beyond the numbers.

CES is also the single best place to gauge the state of Silicon Valley innovation.

And the 2015 edition of CES, scheduled for Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 in Las Vegas, will highlight some of the key tech trends we've been telling you a lot about over the past several years.

And the watchword will be "connectivity," says Accenture Managing Director John Curran, who runs the consulting firm's Communications, Media and Technology Group.

"The range of high-tech devices is exploding, and so is the amount of connectivity and networking between them," Curran wrote in a recent issue of Forbes magazine. "All this will be evident at CES like never before. We expect to see the 'always connected' consumer become more pervasive than ever as connected devices and services become the norm in new, emerging and traditional product categories."

According to Curran and other experts, the key tech topics at CES 2015 will include:

The "Internet of Everything," or IoE.
The "connected car."
And so-called "4K" TVs.

We've been talking with you about all three of these.

And the fact that they're going to be major points of focus at CES means they've emerged as major profit opportunities - and are worth revisiting again.

So let's take a look.

CES 2014: The Coolest 5 Things to See

By Kyle Anderson, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @KyleAndersonMM - January 10, 2014

This year's CES certainly had its share of memorable moments. It started with Director Michael Bey's embarrassing stage walk-off in the middle of a presentation. And then there was that stunt by T-Mobile CEO John Legere.

This is the stuff that everybody's been talking about...

The Four Hottest Trends from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

By Kerri Shannon, Associate Editor, Money Morning - January 13, 2012

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV wraps up today (Friday) after setting the stage for this year's hottest tech trends.

The 3,100 companies in attendance have launched about 20,000 new products since the tradeshow opened on Jan. 10. They range from everyday items like new smartphones to crowd-wowing flying cameras.

Besides companies using the venue to introduce consumers to their hottest new products, this year's Consumer Electronics Show highlighted the materials and capabilities that will dominate the tech world in 2012 and for years to come. The prototypes and early models that debuted this year are the first versions of technology destined to change not only our consumer experiences, but eventually redesign our households and even our nation's military strategies.

Here are four of the most important trends from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show setting the stage for the future of tech:

Shaping the Future of Tech

1. Gorilla Glass: This game-changing material by Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) is lightweight, damage-resistant, and dominating new products that rely on thinner glass for optimal use.

"The Gorilla Glass breakthrough is important because we are moving to a touch-screen world," said Money Morning Defense and Technology Specialist Michael Robinson. "Thinner glass is integral to technology that will greatly enrich the user experience of smartphones, ultrabooks, TVs, and ATMs. The thinner the glass, not only the smaller the electronics, but the more responsive and accurate the screens become."

Robinson has detailed industry-defining innovations like Gorilla Glass in his Money Morning series, The Era of Radical Change.

While Gorilla Glass was showcased in smartphones and laptops at the Consumer Electronics Show, Robinson said the material's importance goes beyond these everyday items.

"We are moving to the Japanese model in which a wide range of products typically sold in stores now come to consumers through vending machines located everywhere," Robinson said. "You'll control them with a smartphone or with touch screens depending on consumer preference. I predict a flood of new vending machines will hit the U.S. in the next five years that will need tough glass to deal with thousands of consumer purchases a day."

2. Ultrabooks: With traditional laptop sales plummeting, and tablets last year's hottest CES export, companies have combined a computer's operating capacity and a tablet's size to create ultrabooks, the latest phase in personal computing.

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