said at the conference that Apple TV will show their content.

Sony meanwhile, said it will launch a new music and video download servicedesigned to challenge Apple, as it holds its own media event in Berlin.

Elsewhere among technology stocks, Amazon.com jumped almost 5 percent after the online retailer is reportedly entering the business of delivering TV over the Internet, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, Credit Suisse downgraded the semiconductor sector to "market weight" from "overweight," citing a "clear weakening of orders" for computers and electronic products for June and July, in a note to clients. But most chipmakers were still trading higher.

Among financial stocks, up more than 3 percent as a group, Bank of America rose more than 4 percent after a federal judge approvedresponsible for a $3.0B product portfolio. Ms. Rielly-Gauvin began her career at Johnson & Johnson family of companies in 1993, where she worked as Manager of Infectious Disease Research at Ortho-McNeil and held positions of increasing responsibility in Medical Affairs and the Commercial organizations. She began her career with Bristol-Myers Squibb as a Research Scientist in clinical drug development. Ms. Rielly-Gauvin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Simmons College and an MBA in Economics from Rutgers University. She is an outside board member of the Family Guidance Center and resides in the Northern suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two children. Ms. Rielly-Gauvin has served on the Preeclampsia Foundation board since 2011.

Beth Frazer

Vice Chair

Beth Frazer received a Juris Doctrate from the University of Louisville