Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring iPad
From Trefis.com
Apple Stock: iPad Business More Valuable Than Mac Desktops - We estimate that Apple’s iPad business accounts for 4% of the $267 Trefis price estimate for Apple’s stock compared to about 3% for Apple’s Mac desktop business…
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Dell
From Trefis.com
Trefis Analysis: Notebook PCs 17% of Dell’s Stock on February 25, 2010 Dell shipped an additional 1.2 million notebook PCs in 2009 over 2008. We expect growth in the global notebook market to drive Dell’s notebooks sales in the future…
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Cisco
From Trefis.com
Trefis, named for its focus on trends, forecasts, and insights, is revolutionary in its forward-looking approach to stock analysis, which incorporates an intuitive look at the relationship between a company’s product divisions and its stock price. Services for Routers and Switches Make up 18% of Cisco’s Stock - Cisco makes a significant amount of money by providing troubleshooting and maintenance services to its hardware customers….
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Apple
From Trefis.com
While many will equate the mobile age with just cell phones, the reality is that many new devices with entirely new use cases will enter our lives and create amazing experiences. This mobile age will require companies to have deep expertise in BOTH hardware and software to create breakthrough products, and I am bullish on Apple because I believe they uniquely have both the hardware and software skills to lead this transformation…
Innovative Analytic Tool Empowers Investors
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor
An innovative new investor analytic tool made its public debut today, and it offers an exciting look at what may well be the future of online trading for both market experts and arm-chair analysts alike. Trefis, named for its focus on trends, forecasts, and insights, is revolutionary in its forward-looking approach to stock analysis, which incorporates a more intuitive look at the relationship between a company’s product divisions and its stock price.
Heartland (HPY) Implements E2EE System
From Heartland Payment Systems
“Monday’s successful test involved Zones 1, 2, 3 and 4,” detailed Steven M. Elefant, Heartland’s executive director of end-to-end encryption. “We believe that protecting data in these zones alone will significantly impact the protection of cardholder data.
ISR News: CardSystems Breach Spurs Suit
Excerpts From Digital Transactions
Four years later, the fallout from the notorious CardSystems Solutions Inc. data breach—at the time the biggest hacking of payment card data ever—surfaced last week and looks like it could go on for months or even years. Merchant acquirer Merrick Bank Corp. is suing Savvis Inc., the company that inspected CardSystems before the breach, for alleged negligence because Savvis had concluded that the processor’s security systems met Visa Inc.’s standards.
ISR News: Heartland Fights MasterCard Fine
Excerpts From Finextra
“Heartland therefore considers the MasterCard fine to be in direct violation of both the MasterCard rules and applicable law and it intends and is prepared to vigorously contest and it has recommended to its sponsor banks that they vigorously contest, through all means available including litigation if necessary any liability that may be asserted or imposed upon Heartland or its sponsor banks by reason of this fine,” says Carr.
Heartland Regains PCI Compliant Status
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Financial Editor
Heartland’s removal from the list of compliant payment processors had followed revelations that the company had suffered what may have been the largest data breach of payment card information to date, although details of the incident and similar events at RBS WorldPay (RBS) have not been made available due to ongoing investigations.
ISR News: IBM’s Financial New World Order
Excerpts From Finextra.com
The study predicts significant consolidation in segments wrought with over-capacity - such as investment banking, asset management, and wealth management - as firms adapt to a new lower-margin landscape where they will need to specialise around services that clients value rather than continuing to provide a full range of in-house services. Enhanced regulation and transparency will also eliminate opacity, with previously high-margin activities becoming commoditised.
