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Friday’s Trade Stocks Highlights: SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), West Corp (NASDAQ:WSTC), ParkerVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRKR), Sigma Designs Inc (NASDAQ:SIGM)

Z-Wave enabled Smart Home Lifestyle features are creating momentum in the Telco and security industries and have created new revenue streams and profits for those sectors. According to Tom Kerber, Director of Research at Parks Associates “Z-Wave is the dominant technology in the leading channel providing smart home control systems, the security channel. In 2014, over 30% of new professionally monitored security systems were installed with a home control device.”

From the article "Friday’s Trade Stocks Highlights: SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), West Corp (NASDAQ:WSTC), ParkerVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRKR), Sigma Designs Inc (NASDAQ:SIGM)."

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