the NFC Revolutionanyone have any ideas on the chip maker stock for the upcoming revolution in how we do business with our smartphones? According to the retirement millionaire add this chip maker already makes a large percentage of the chips for smartphones and the NFC revolution is about to change the way we do business completely. Its all about using the smartphone to buy whatever rather than credit cards or cash and many big name companies are on board to use this technology real soon. Apparently the primary chip maker should hit it big real fast. Would love to know the name of this company and any thoughts you may have on its success?
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Clarification, please: Retirement Trader or Retirement Millionaire?
Never mind, Apple and Qualcomm would be what you want to look at. As a side note, Keith Fitzgerald just went positive on Apple.
HTH. Dave
TFECY-Thinfilm NFC Smart Label Named Finalist in RFID Journal Awards
8:00 am ET April 8, 2015 (BusinessWire) Print
Thin Film Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”) (OSE:THIN.OL; OTCQX:TFECY), a leader in the development and commercialization of printed electronics and smart systems, today announced that its NFC Smart Label is a finalist in the Best New Product category at the RFID Journal Awards 2015. In addition, Jennifer Ernst, Thinfilm’s chief strategy officer, will demonstrate the product’s potential for connecting everyday items and expanding the boundaries of the Internet of Things in a presentation at RFID Journal LIVE! 2015.
RFID Journal LIVE! is a conference and exhibition where business and technology leaders convene to explore strategies for tracking and managing today’s billions of retail and consumable products. The event will take place April 15-17, 2015 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Following Ernst’s presentation at 10:30 a.m. PT on April 17, she will be available to answer questions from event attendees and media in a Q&A session. Thinfilm representatives will also provide product demonstrations and company information at Booth 342 in Aisle 300.
Best New Product Award Presentation (Group 3)
Who: Jennifer Ernst, chief strategy officer at Thinfilm
When: Friday, April 17, 10:30 a.m.
Where: Awards Theater, 125A
San Diego Convention Center
111 W Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
Thinfilm Exhibit and Demonstration of Printed Electronic
Products
When: Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 16, 10:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Friday, April 17, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Booth 342, Aisle 300
“To access real-time data and improve visibility, businesses around the world are seeking new technology solutions to make their products – and supply chains – smarter,” said Ernst. “We are excited to present such a solution for this year’s Best New Product Award.”
About Thin Film Electronics ASA
Thinfilm is a leader in the development of printed electronics. The first to commercialize printed, rewritable memory, the Company is creating printed systems that include memory, sensing, display, and wireless communication, all at a low cost unmatched by any other electronic technology. Thinfilm’s roadmap integrates technology from a strong and growing ecosystem of partners to enable the Internet of Everything by bringing intelligence to disposable goods.
Thin Film Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”) is a publicly listed Norwegian company with headquarters in Oslo, Norway; product development and production in Linkoping, Sweden; product development, production, and business development in San Jose, California, USA; and sales offices in the United States, Japan, and Singapore.
Travis discussed previously Best2ALL!-Benjamin
This one is for NFC chips and tech, mostly NXP Semiconductor (NXPI) but also Qualcomm (QCOM), we covered it in February here: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/retirement-millionaire/the-end-of-american-money-as-we-know-it/
The same basic premise has been touted by many, including Andy Obermueller: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/game-changing-stocks/this-new-apple-innovation-will-be-bigger-than-the-ipod-iphone-and-ipad-streetauthority/
But the first one to push it super-actively in teaser campaigns was the Motley Fool:
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/motley-fool-rule-breakers/the-intel-of-nfc-one-ground-floor-stock-every-opportunistic-investor-should-snap-up-today/
MF introduced NXPI prior to the iPhone 6 rollout. It has done quite well since then.
Actually, they first started teasing it several months before the iPhone 4S rollout — which means there’s a bit of a lesson here about growth and patience and how David Gardner really thinks about breakthrough technologies or trends. If you had bought it on the first teaser campaign they released regarding NFC phone payments replacing your wallet in the Spring of 2011, you were 3+ years early — you would have had to sit through a quick near-50% drop in the shares and then be patient through a couple years of relatively flat share price before being rewarded starting in mid-2013. It has worked out very well, indeed, but many impatient investors or rigid stop-loss followers would have been out of the stock a long time before it started the relatively recent ascent toward $100 a share.
I think David Gardner at the Fool would be the first to admit that he has dozens of very poor performers in his recommended portfolio, which is probably well over 100 stocks now (they sell quite rarely), and many of them have probably been held patiently through declines of 50% or more or gone to nearly zero, because that’s the way he gets to the dozen or so stocks he has picked that have come close to 1,000% returns (over many years — decades, in some cases).
Oh, that’s right.mThey kept speculaing about which chips would be included in the next iPhone and were often wrong. I took the bait on $INVN and sold at quite a loss. It got included in the 6′ but the margin was razor thin and the stock dropped like a rock. So glad to be here at SGS, especially the bio threads.