Most tech and market watchers are aware of what happened to Microsoft after it missed out on the smartphone trend, and now it seems another legacy tech name is being punished for missing the next big trend in computing. At the Sohn Hong Kong conference, Sean Debow of Interlink/Swiss-Asia said they're shorting Casio Computer because it missed out on smartwatches.
Casio Computer "in trouble"
ValueWalk obtained notes about the Casio short from the conference, and Debow said the company is "in trouble." He noted that Casio continues to sell digital watches, which have been around since the 1970s. The company has yet to update its watch line-up for the modern age.
"We're moving to sports watches and to smartwatches and that's going...
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