CHICAGO, Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL-Free Report), IBM (NYSE:IBM-Free Report), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT-Free Report) and Google (Nasdaq:GOOGL-Free Report).
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Here are highlights from Monday's Analyst Blog:
Technology Stock Roundup
The Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL-Free Report)-IBM (NYSE:IBM-Free Report) alliance targeting enterprise customers made headway last week, even as Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT-Free Report) extended License Mobility to Google (Nasdaq:GOOGL-Free Report), which saw its legal troubles in Europe take a turn for the worse.
Apple/IBM Alliance Yields First Products for Enterprise
Earlier this year, Apple and IBM entered into an agreement to leverage each other's strengths to grow at the enterprise. Apple brought its premium hardware and sales team to the table, while IBM brought its many years of experience at the enterprise and roster of enterprise customers. It was thought that Apple's sales team had a good chance of convincing IBM's enterprise customers to buy its products, particularly when they were coming tailor-made for the purpose, i.e including IBM's specialized software to deal with their specific problems.
The first products intended to further this alliance were announced last week, with IBM unveiling ten new apps across different verticals including travel, banking, insurance, government, retail and communications. Dubbed IBM Mobilefirst for iOS, the apps are expected to help the companies tap the BYOD opportunity.
Microsoft & Google Make Strange Bedfellows
UK Watchdog Opposes Cookie-Based Tracking
A hundred Apple customers in the UK have sued Google for exploiting security loopholes to track them without their permission. Google is not the only party involved in such activities, but it is the largest and makes the most money, so is an easier target.
Google, which is incorporated in the U.S., objected to its being tried in the UK, but the High Court set aside its appeal, allowing the case to continue. Google has argued that the concerned data was anonymous and therefore not personal. Therefore, the use of such data generated through Google search couldn't be classified as a violation of human rights as claimed. Similar proceedings back home hadn't proved that it had caused anyone any harm, or any loss of property or money (although Google has paid fines to Apple's Safari users in the U.S. for ignoring their desire to not be tracked).
The matter takes a new light in the UK however, where Google might be in breach of the Data Protection Act. And if it is not, there is a precedent that could work against it: in January, the High Court ruled that use of data generated through search could be deemed a misuse of personal data (since Google was making so much money from it), thus giving rise to more actionable claims.
The information commissioner Christopher Graham is also calling for a more comprehensive definition of damage. He is questioning the assumption that the data generated by search is personal and raising a question as to whether personal damage can include non-monetary damage as well.
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