Forget the Gadgets, Buy the Gadget Makers! WeSeed Announces its Top Stocks from the 2009 CES Show

How 2009 CES Top Tech Toys Translate into Stock Picks
CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--
Jennifer Openshaw, President of WeSeed and author of The Millionaire Zone
(Hyperion), today awarded "WeSeed grades" for the top gadgets at the Consumer
Electronics Show that are likely to have the greatest impact on the companies
behind them.

"The Las Vegas glitz over the games and gadgets is great, but the real story is
the companies behind the big show," said Openshaw. Consumers will dictate what
technology succeeds and which companies go along for the ride. We`ve learned
about the top tech toys, but which might lead to the best stock picks?"

Tomorrow, January 13th at 7pm EST/6pm CST, Openshaw will hold a webinar -
Translate 2009 CES Top Toys into Top Picks -- so consumers can learn and talk
live. To attend, sign up at WeSeed.com or search for WeSeed on Facebook for full
instructions.

To help consumers decide which gadgets are likely to mean the most to the
companies behind them, Openshaw and the WeSeed team took a look at the gadgets
and awarded three letter grades: an "A" for those likely to have a high impact
on the company and its stock price; a "B" to those likely to have some impact;
and a "C" to those who are expected to have minimal impact.

Three of the 10 most buzzed about CES gadgets received an "A," three a "B," and
four a "C." They are as follows:

High Impact (Grade = A)

* Yahoo! Connected TV (YHOO) - Yahoo! expands its "widgets" business to offer
full-length video and movies. This could be big for consumers and the company,
if it finally cracks the nut for video on demand delivered through the Internet.
Stay tuned.
* Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard (LOGI) -- This keyboard does offer something for
the IM-distracted PC user - a small display like a camera display to keep in
touch while you play Halo. This is not a revolutionary product in itself, but
does show that LOGI understands you can make more money with specialized niche
products. The company won seven CES innovation awards - a positive sign for a
supplier of commodity products.
* Palm Pre Smartphone (PALM) -- Another entry into the iPhone fray, but a pretty
good one with PDA-like interfaces with PCs, etc. New features like wireless
charging have attracted a lot of attention and the markets responded well; the
stock was up 34% the day of the launch.

Medium Impact (Grade = B)

* Nokia E63 Smart Phone and Philips Alliance (NOK) - Another me-too product,
this time in the BlackBerry category. This fully-keyboarded smart phone is
brought over from Europe, and weighs in at only $249 unlocked. It should bring
Nokia into the highest growth and profit segment as a smart phone contender.
Their "DNLA" alliance with Philips is attractive as a way to get home
electronics to synch up with phones. That vision, plus becoming a banking
device, will really expand the mobile phone, and Nokia may (and should) be at
the center of this.
* Dell XPS 625 Gaming PC (DELL) -- This gaming PC has some attractive design
elements. What`s better for Dell is the return to customizable PC builds for
computer enthusiasts -- their old bread and butter and most profitable business.
If they do more of this and less of the mundane commodity products, this could
be good for the company and the stock.
* Microsoft Windows 7 (MSFT) -- Microsoft usually does pretty well with new OS
rollouts, but Vista was a huge disappointment. This is a refinement of that
product. The beta was announced by CEO Steve Ballmer in his keynote speech. If
MSFT does it right, it could move the company back into a leadership position.
But hard to say with what we know now.
* Sony Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC (SNE)- Netbooks have been popping up all over
the electronics market, but Sony may have hit it out of the park with this one.
A classy looking laptop with turn-by-turn navigation, internet access, and basic
computing that can fit in a blazer pocket. The verdict is still out on how many
people will use a computer this small, but it has some promise.

Low Impact (Grade = C)

* Pioneer VSX-819H A-V Receiver (6773JP) - Pioneer has long been a commodity
player in the audio market, and its recent earnings performance reflects this.
They`ve been further hurt by the consumer slowdown and stronger dollar. But this
A-V receiver has a lot of nice features for $300; it looks like a decent value
for consumers looking for a primary or even a secondary location in their homes.
It probably will not move the stock much, and it`s also hard to invest in this
Tokyo exchange company besides.
* Sony X-Series Walkman and Cybershot G3 camera/browser (SNE) -- An exciting new
product with attractive G3 browser applications and the ability to take pictures
and move them to or from this device to anywhere. This may well define a new
category. As for the Walkman, finally we breathe some new life into this old but
fabulous brand. But neither of these products will be much of a blip on this
giant`s radar. This company`s fortunes are much more driven by consumer spending
and foreign exchange rates.
* HP TouchSmart PC (HPQ) - A pretty cool new package that pretty much does away
with the mouse and offers a more Apple-like feel. But its real value is hard to
interpret and company marketing materials didn`t help much. It`s nice to see HPQ
innovating, but the impact of this is unclear.

WeSeed is a new site designed to help real people turn what they know and love
into stock ideas much as famed investor Peter Lynch did -- except WeSeed takes
that theory into the 21st century with state-of-the-art web 2.0 technology.
WeSeed helps consumers make the connection between the products they know and
love and the companies behind them. It achieves this by segmenting the stock
market into mini-stock markets (such as the Tech Stock Market) and offers a
proprietary WeSearch tool delivering personalized stock ideas.

Greenough Communications
Danielle Eccleston
617.275.6552, deccleston@greenoughcom.com
or
WeSeed
Jennifer Openshaw, President
203.542.7223, jopenshaw@weseed.com

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