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Penetration Testing Growth: USD 1.6B in 2022 to USD 2.29B by 2031 11-27-2024 10:05 PM CET | Industry, Real Estate & Construction Press release from: SkyQuest Technology Group Penetration Testing Market Scope: Key Insights : Penetration Testing Market size was valued at USD 1.6 billion in 2022 and is poised to grow from USD 1.7 billion in 2023 to USD 2.29 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 17.12% during the forecast period (2024-2031). Discover Your Competitive Edge with a Free Sample Report : https://www.skyquestt.com/sample-request/penetration-testing-market Access the full 2024 Market report for a comprehensive understanding @ https://www.skyquestt.com/report/penetration-testing-market In-Depth Exploration of the global Penetration Testing Market: This report offers a thorough exploration of the global Penetration Testing market, presenting a wealth of data that has been meticulously researched and analyzed. 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It has 450+ happy clients globally. This release was published on openPR.Managed Mobility Services Market Future of Trends, CAGR and Value Insights for 2024-2031 12-03-2024 09:16 PM CET | IT, New Media & Software Press release from: SkyQuest Technology Managed Mobility Services Managed Mobility Services Market Scope: Global Managed Mobility Services Market size was valued at USD 25.40 billion in 2022 and is poised to grow from USD 33.93 billion in 2023 to USD 344.42 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 33.60% during the forecast period (2024-2031). The study of the global Managed Mobility Services Market is presented in the report, which is a thoroughly researched presentation of the data. The analysis delves into some of the key facets of the global Managed Mobility Services Market and shows how drivers like pricing, competition, market dynamics, regional growth, gross margin, and consumption will affect the market's performance. 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Managed Mobility Services Market Segments: Service Type Mobile Device Management, Security and Compliance Management, Mobile Application Management, and Device and Expense Management Deployment Model Cloud-based and On-premises Enterprise Size Large Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises End User Industry IT and Telecom, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Manufacturing Major Players Covered in Global Managed Mobility Services Market Report: • Wipro Limited• Tata Consultancy Services• Cognizant Technology Solutions• IBM Corporation• Telefónica S.A.• Cisco Systems Inc.• Tech Mahindra Ltd.• Fujitsu Limited• Deutsche Telekom AG• Orange Business Services• Verizon Communications Inc.• Hewlett Packard Enterprise• Vodafone Group plc• Accenture• Sprint Corporation• CompuCom Systems Inc.• AT&T Inc.• Soti Inc.• AirWatch - VMware• BlackBerry Limited View report summary and Table of Contents (TOC): https://www.skyquestt.com/report/managed-mobility-services-market Report Inclusions: Market Overview: A product/services overview and the size of the global Managed Mobility Services Market are included. 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Residents gather to hear updates, address concerns about cityLenexa, KS, Nov. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Ally, Inc. (Nasdaq: DGLY) (the “Company”) today announced it received a delinquency notification letter from Nasdaq on November 25, 2024, which indicated that the Company was not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) as a result of the delayed filing of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2024 (the “Quarterly Report”). The Nasdaq Listing Rule requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic financial reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). This notification has no immediate effect on the listing of the Company’s securities on Nasdaq. Nasdaq has informed the Company that it must submit a plan to regain compliance with respect to the filing requirement by January 24, 2025. If the plan is accepted, Nasdaq can grant an exception of up to 180 calendar dates from the due date of the initial delinquent filing for the period ended September 30, 2024, or until May 19, 2025, to regain compliance. The Company is working diligently to file the Quarterly Report as promptly as practical, and expects to return to a normal filing cadence in 2025. About Digital Ally Digital Ally Companies (NASDAQ: DGLY) through its subsidiaries, is engaged in video solution technology, human & animal health protection products, healthcare revenue cycle management, ticket brokering and marketing, event production and jet chartering. Digital Ally continues to add organizations that demonstrate the common traits of positive earnings, growth potential, innovation and organizational synergies. For additional news and information please visit www.digitalally.com Forward-Looking Statements Statements made in this press release that are not descriptions of historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, our business, operating results, financial condition, and stock price could be materially negatively affected. You should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based on the information currently available to us and speak only as of today’s date. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company’s performance or achievements to be materially different from any expected future results, performance, or achievements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and the Company assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Actual future results, performance or achievements may differ materially from historical results or those anticipated depending on a variety of factors, some of which are beyond the control of the Company, including, but not limited to, the risks described from time to time in the Company’s periodic filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, the risks described in the Company’s 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2024 and June 30, 2024 under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” (as applicable). These factors should be considered carefully, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. All information is current as of the date this press release is issued, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information. Contact Information Stanton Ross, CEO Tom Heckman, CFO Digital Ally, Inc. 913-814-7774 info@digitalallyinc.com
Stock market today: Losses for Big Tech pull US indexes lower Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press Nov 27, 2024 1:06 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message A sign marking the intersection of Wall Street and South Street is shown in New York's Financial District on Tuesday, Nov. 26 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) Listen to this article 00:05:15 Losses for big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% from its record high a day earlier, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.6%. Losses for Nvidia, Microsoft and Broadcom were the biggest weights on the market. Dell sank 12.2% after reporting revenue that fell shy of forecasts, and HP dropped 11.4% after giving a weaker-than-expected outlook. Treasury yields fell in the bond market. U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Stocks wavered in afternoon trading on Wednesday, as losses for several Big Tech companies offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% in afternoon trading, even though more stocks were rising than falling in the index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 135 points, or 0.3%, as of 3:05 p.m. Eastern time. Both indexes set records on Tuesday. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.5%. Losses for tech heavyweights helped pull the broader market lower. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slipped 1.6%. Its huge value gives it outsized influence on market indexes. Microsoft fell 0.9% Several personal computer makers added to Big Tech's heavy weight on the market following their latest earnings reports. HP sank 11.8% after giving investors a weaker-than-expected earnings forecast for its current quarter. Dell slumped 11.9% after its latest quarterly revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Gains for financial and health care companies helped counter Big Tech's downward pull. Visa rose 0.9% and Thermo Fisher Scientific added 2.3%. The U.S. economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September, according to the Commerce Department, leaving its original estimate of third-quarter growth unchanged. The growth was driven by strong consumer spending and a surge in exports. The update follows a report on Tuesday from the Conference Board that said confidence among U.S. consumers improved in November, but not by as much as economists expected. Consumers have been driving economic growth, but the latest round of earnings reports from retailers shows a mixed and more cautious picture. Department store operator Nordstrom fell 8.5% after warning investors about a trend toward weakening sales that started in late October. Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters jumped 19.1% after beating analysts’ third-quarter financial forecasts. Weeks earlier, retail giant Target gave investors a discouraging forecast for the holiday season, while Walmart provided a more encouraging forecast. Consumers, though resilient, are still facing pressure from inflation. The latest update from the U.S. government shows that inflation accelerated last month. The personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE, rose to 2.3% in October from 2.1% in September. Overall, the rate of inflation has been falling broadly since it peaked more than two years ago. The PCE, which is the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, was just below 7.3% in June of 2022. Another measure of inflation, the consumer price index, peaked at 9.1% at the same time. The latest inflation data, though, is a sign that the rate of inflation seems to be stalling as it falls to within range of the Fed's target of 2%. The central bank started raising its benchmark interest rate from near-zero in early 2022 to a two-decade high by the middle of 2023 and held it there in order to tame inflation. The Fed started cutting its benchmark interest rate in September, followed by a second cut in November. Wall Street expects a similar quarter-point cut at the central bank's upcoming meeting in December. “Today’s data shouldn’t change views of the likely path for disinflation, however bumpy," said David Alcaly, lead macroeconomic strategist at Lazard Asset Management. "But a lot of observers, probably including some at the Fed, are looking for reasons to get more hawkish on the outlook given the potential for inflationary policy change like new tariffs.” President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China when he takes office in January. That could shock the economy by raising prices on a wide range of goods and accelerating the rate of inflation. Such a shift could prompt the Fed to rethink future cuts to interest rates. Treasury yields slipped in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.25% from 4.30% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely follows expected actions by the Fed, fell to 4.22% from 4.25% late Tuesday. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will reopen for a half day on Friday. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70
Bestow Named a Top 100 Financial Technology Company of 2024What better subject for a new year! Moses is dead; Joshua carries on. Here’s the story. The promised land has been spied out and all systems are go! The Israelites have followed Joshua to the Jordan River. The long-awaited-for promised land is just ahead. A new exciting day is dawning. But then it happens — trouble — an obstacle. These obstacles may be economic, political, social or personal — but they always come. The obstacle facing the children of Israel was the flooding of the Jordan River. There were no boats or bridges, just gallons of rushing waters. They were so close to their destination, could even see it, but couldn’t reach it. They had to be disappointed as they waited three days to cross over into the promised land. So what is Joshua’s word to the Israelites and to us as we begin our journey into the new year 2025? First, acknowledge the source of your hope! Note in this story that the children of Israel are to be led into the land of promise not by the military, but by the priests. The favorable presence of God must go before them. Joshua says, “when you see the Ark of the Covenant ...go after it.” The Ark, of course, is the symbol of God’s presence and must be acknowledged. So, why are these Israelites to keep the Ark in sight? Plainly and simply, because they do not know the way. They are about to enter a brand new, unknown territory. And without God’s guidance neither they nor we will know where to go. Writing in his book “The Divine Conquest,” A.W.Tozer states, “Wherever faith has been original, wherever it has proved itself to be real, it has invariably had upon it a sense of the “present God.” Our hope is in God and his guidance. Second, set out! Then you shall set out from your place ...”Joshua admonished. Note again that Joshua doesn’t say that you should crawl out from your place or sneak out from your place. Joshua said, “Set out!” “See the Ark-set out!” Acknowledge God — set out! I like those words “set out,” and I think they mean “Hang in there.” Sometimes that is absolutely the best thing we can do — “just hang in there.” Some days survival itself is an achievement. At 95 years of age, J.C. Penny was asked to share the secret of his life and long success. He quickly replied, “Being grateful for all my problems. As I have dealt with each one, I became stronger. I grew on my difficulties.” It sounds like J.C. Penny knew how to hang in there. He had fortitude which means “firmness of spirit.” Third, dwell in possibility! A few years ago, a friend gave me a unique gift that I treasure very much. It’s a silver paper weight with the following words cut across the front of it, “Dwell in possibility.” Now, these words remind me of Joshua’s words to the children of Israel, “ ...For tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you” (Joshua 3:5). If you study churches or individuals or other groups, you’ll discover that they frequently make it or miss it on how well they manage the possibilities. Personally, I like the way that Don Quixote expresses it in the “Man of La Mancha” He said, “To dream the impossible dream!” To make everything better because we dare to believe they can be better. And we live our lives seeking to make them better. Happy New Year!
Estate agents have told the Welsh Government's cabinet secretary for housing that a policy to free up properties as affordable homes is not working. At a meeting with Jayne Bryant MS, agents from west, mid, and north Wales said that while more properties were coming onto the market, hardly any were suitable as affordable homes for local people. They said that the most expensive properties were being bought by people from wealthier areas who were not put off by potentially high council tax premiums. Middle to higher-priced properties were being bought by retirees or people returning to Wales for use as primary residences. Lower-priced properties were in places too far away from facilities, too expensive to heat and maintain, or had no gardens or parking, making them unattractive to people looking for primary and affordable homes. Property agents were invited to take part in evidence-gathering sessions organised by Propertymark and the Wales Tourism Alliance but the agents who took part were active in the domestic sale and rental market, rather than the holiday let sector. Suzy Davies, outgoing chair of the Wales Tourism Alliance, said: "Members also told us that their properties would add nothing to the stock of attractive affordable homes, even in areas where prices were falling." Tim Thomas of Propertymark said: "We are supportive of the aims of the Welsh Government in ensuring that people can afford to buy or rent a home locally, to support local economies and the Welsh language." The full report is available to read on the Wales Tourism Alliance website.