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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Tag Heuer unveils smartwatch venture with Intel, Google, (NMS: AAPL), (NMS: GOOG), (NMS: GOOGL)

Tag Heuer, French luxury group LVMH's biggest watch maker, announced a partnership with Google Inc and Intel Corp to create a luxury smartwatch to compete head-on with Apple Inc . Tag Heuer said the partnership aimed to bring to market the first luxury watch using Google's Android operating system. It plans to launch the watch in the last quarter of this year.Tag Heuer Chief Executive Jean-Claude Biver declined to give any details about pricing, functionality or design.Michael Dell, vice president of Intel's New Devices unit, said: "We believe wearable technology will take off as it represents who you are and how you want to be seen."

Apple Inc. (Apple) designs, manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Shares of AAPL traded higher by 0.3382% or $0.4345/share to $128.90. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $73.05 and as high as $133.60. On average, 57893100 shares of AAPL exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 3438036.

Google Inc. (Google) is a global technology company. Shares of GOOG traded higher by 0.14% or $0.78/share to $560.28. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $487.56 and as high as $604.83. On average, 1990880 shares of GOOG exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 77806.

Google Inc. (Google) is a global technology company. Shares of GOOGL traded higher by 0.059% or $0.335/share to $566.50. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $490.91 and as high as $608.91. On average, 2251360 shares of GOOGL exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 74161.



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