Hot Blue Chip Stocks To Invest In 2015

Hot Blue Chip Stocks To Invest In 2015: Apple Inc.(AAPL)

Apple Inc., together with subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, mobile communication and media devices, and portable digital music players, as well as sells related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications worldwide. The company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, retail stores, direct sales force, third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, it sells third-party Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores; and digital content and applications through the iTunes Store. The company sells its products to consumer, small and mid-sized business, education, enterprise, government, and creative markets. As of September 25, 2010, it had 317 retail stores, including 233 stores in the United States and 84 stores internationally. The company, formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc., was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  With nearly all of 2014 fading in the rear-view mirror, it's time to turn our attention to the year ahead. There will be a lot of tech trends playing out in 2015. Let's go over a few of the more compelling movements. 1. Smart Watches It's now been a couple of years since the Kickstarter-funded Pebble ushered in the era of smart watches. Wristwatches that do more than tell time -- tethered to smartphones via Bluetooth to deliver calls and notifications, track your fitness, and run apps -- were supposed to be the next big thing in 2013 when Samsung entered the market. It didn't happen. This year has also been pretty unremarkable. All of! that should change early next year, when Apple (AAPL) gets into the game. The Apple Watch is no longer a work of fanboy fiction. After years of rumors, Apple finally unveiled the tech giant's first foray into wearable computing, targeting a release just after this year's holiday season. As a tastemaker in tech, Apple is hard to ignore. The Apple Watch may initially be too expensive or limited to iPhone users, but it's hard to bet against this serial innovator. The company made portable media players, smartphones, and tablets cool. It could do the same thing to the smart watch next year. 2. Peer-to-Peer App-Facilitated Taxi Service Uber has turned heads this year with its latest financing round, valuing the leader of peer-to-peer transportation at a cool $40 billion. Its nearest rival, Lyft, is also making waves. Uber and Lyft are pioneering a new approach to the cab industry. They are providing cheaper rides than traditional taxis, and the convenience of hailing a ride via app. They are also succeeding in getting drivers to sign up, arming the public with a cottage industry for folks to make the most of their vehicles that sit dormant most of the time. There have been and will continue to be regulatory challenges to the Uber model. A few nasty accidents or bad actors on either end of the transaction can dampen the appetite fo

• [By Motley Fool Staff]

  Need a reason to invest in stocks? How about the beginning of a new year. To help you find solid stock ideas we asked Fool.com contributors covering technology and consumer goods stocks to talk about top stocks for 2015. Read on to see what they had to say about Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) , Facebook (NASDAQ: FB  ) , SeaWorld Entertainment (NYSE: SEAS  ) , WhiteWave Foods (NYSE: WWAV  ) , Google (NASDAQ: GOOG  ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL  ) , Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM  ) , and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) .

• [By Ashraf Eassa]

  Back at ! Apple's ! (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) 2013 World Wide Developers Conference, the company launched new variants of its iconic MacBook Air product line, featuring Intel (NASDAQ: INTC  ) Haswell processors. Since then, the MacBook Air lineup has received a small speed bump in the form of refreshed Haswell processors, but the industrial design and other specifications have not been changed.

• [By Jamal Carnette]

  Gartner focuses on mobile phones sold during a particular period, allowing investors to detect trends more quickly, but the results can vary more than installed base figures that include preexisting users. Gartner's survey also goes beyond mere handset makers -- such as Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF  ) , Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) , Xiaomi, and Huawei -- by including operating system statistics from Google's (NASDAQ: GOOGL  ) (NASDAQ: GOOG  ) Android, Apple's iOS, and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT  ) Windows Phone. Here are three key takeaways from Gartner's report.

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