Nature abhors a vacuum. Search, social media and mobile cloud companies, led by Google and Facebook, have moved in to fill the void with privacy policies and user agreements that define online privacy in a way that fuels their billion-dollar business models.
Related:Privacy-minded consumers flock to free VPNs
This phenomenon caught the attention of filmmaker Cullen Hoback, who spoke with CyberTruth about his new documentary, Terms and Conditions May Apply.
CT: What inspired you to make this documentary?
Hoback: I had a concern about how technology was changing us. Almost everything in our digital lives comes with a set of terms and conditions, which is really just a legally binding contract designed to take away our rights, and more specifically, our privacy. Of course, terms and conditions are meant to not be read, so perhaps the greatest civil liberties issue of our times, the destruction of the 4th Amendment, is intentionally hidden in endless fine print.
5 Best Clean Energy Stocks To Buy For 2015: AAR Corp.(AIR)
AAR CORP. provides products and services to aviation, government, and defense markets worldwide. The company?s Aviation Supply Chain segment purchases and sells new, overhauled, and repaired engine and airframe parts and components. It also repairs, overhauls, and sells avionics, electrical, electronic, fuel, hydraulic, and pneumatic components and instruments, as well as internal airframe components; and provides customized inventory supply and management programs for engine and airframe parts and components. In addition, this segment sells and leases commercial jet engines and used commercial aircraft; and provides advisory services, including assistance in remarketing aircraft, records management, and storage maintenance. Its Government and Defense Services segment involves in fixed- and rotary-wing flight operations; and performs engineering and design modifications on rotary-wing aircraft for government customers. This segment also provides customized performance-base d logistics programs in support of the U.S. Department of Defense and foreign governments; and engineering, design, manufacturing, and system integration services. The company?s Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul segment provides airframe maintenance inspection and overhaul, painting, line maintenance, airframe modifications, structural repairs, avionic service and installation, exterior and interior refurbishment, and engineering services, as well as support for commercial and military aircraft; and repairs and overhauls landing gears, wheels, and brakes. Its Structures and Systems segment designs, manufactures, and repairs airdrop and other transportation pallets, and containers and shelters used in support of military and humanitarian tactical deployment activities. This segment also designs, manufactures, and installs in-plane cargo loading and handling systems for commercial and military aircraft and helicopters. AAR CORP. was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on AAR (NYSE: AIR ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [By Wallace Witkowski]
AAR Corp. (AIR) �shares fell 7% to $28.75 on light volume an earnings miss and reduced outlook due to a ��hallenging��quarter in its aviation products and services businesses.
Hot US Companies For 2014: Melrose Industries PLC (MLSPF)
Melrose Industries PLC acquires manufacturing businesses and improves them. The Company operates in four divisions: Energy, Lifting, Other Industrial and Elster. The Energy division is a supplier of turbogenerators, other electricity generating machinery, switchgear, transformers and power infrastructure equipment. Its products consist of power management and excitation systems; power and system transformers, and aftermarket servicing. Lifting division is a supplier of lifting fittings, blocks and custom engineered material handling products and supplier for wire and wire rope. Other Industrial division has manufacturing businesses across the housing, construction and scrap processing sectors. Elster is a provider of gas control equipment and related communications, gas, electricity and water meters and software solutions. In January 2014, the Company disposed Harris Waste Management Group, Inc. to Avis Industrial Corporation. Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roland Head]
Today, I'm going to take a look at�Melrose Industries� (LSE: MRO ) (NASDAQOTH: MLSPF ) , an unusual company which specialises in turning around manufacturing businesses, before selling them on. Melrose's current portfolio of businesses contains German utility meter maker Elster, Brush Turbo Generators and Marelli Motori, which make electric motors and generators, and Bridon, which makes rope and wire products used in the oil and gas industry.
Hot US Companies For 2014: Ardonblue Ventures Inc (ARB)
Ardonblue Ventures Inc., formerly August Metal Corporation, is a Canada-based company engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and evaluating mineral resource properties. Las Lajas Project consists of approximately seven contiguous mining concessions and is located in Southern Sonora State, Mexico. The concessions are owned by Minera Goldzone SA de CV a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldzone Exploration Inc. Las Lajas has access and infrastructure as it is located approximately 15 kilometers north of the city of Navojoa. The Thurlow Property occupies the central part of the Doratha Morton gold trend, located on British Columbia�� southwestern coast near Phillips Arm. The Property consists of approximately nine crown granted mineral claims covering a total of approximately 142.61hectares. Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Duprey]
International media and marketing shop Arbitron� (NYSE: ARB ) �announced yesterday�its second-quarter dividend of $0.10 per share, the same rate it's always paid since 2005
Hot US Companies For 2014: Vulcan Materials Company(VMC)
Vulcan Materials Company engages in the production and sale of construction aggregates, as well as asphalt mix, ready-mixed concrete, and cement primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Aggregates, Concrete, Asphalt Mix, and Cement. The Aggregates segment produces construction aggregates, which principally include crushed stone, sand, and gravel. Its aggregates are used in public and private sector construction projects, including highways, airports, water and sewer systems, industrial manufacturing facilities, and residential and nonresidential buildings, as well as railroad track ballast. The Concrete segment produces and sells ready-mixed concrete in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia; and block and pre-cast beams, as well as resells purchased building materials for use with ready-mixed concrete and concrete block. The Asphalt Mix segment produces and sells asphalt mix in Arizona, Californi a, and Texas. The Cement segment produces and sells Portland and masonry cement in bulk and bags to the concrete products industry. This segment also imports cement, clinker, and slag to resell and export, as well as to blend, bag, or reprocess into specialty cements. In addition, this segment mines, produces, and sells calcium products for the animal feed, paint, plastics, water treatment, and joint compound industries. The company was formerly known as Virginia Holdco, Inc. and changed its name to Vulcan Materials Company in November 2007. Vulcan Materials Company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Shares of Vulcan Materials (VMC) have surged today after the sand and gravel maker reported better-than-forecast earnings driven by sales of concrete and cement.
Getty ImagesShares of Vulcan have gained 7.6%, and given a lift to other cement makers today, including Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), which has risen 4.9% and reports earnings on Thursday, Cemex (CX), which has advanced 1.5%, and Texas Industries (TXI), which is up 4.9%.
The Associated Press has the details on Vulcan’s earnings beat:
For the three months ended Sept. 30, Vulcan Materials Co. earned $41.4 million, or 31 cents per share. Last year, it earned $14.3 million, or 11 cents per share.
The 2012 third quarter was weighed down by some restructuring charges and exchange offer costs. The recent quarter did not have any of these charges or costs.
The latest quarter also benefited from a bigger gain on the sale of property, equipment and other items than a year ago.
Earnings from continuing operations were 32 cents per share for the recent quarter.
Revenue increased 13 percent to $775.2 million from $687.6 million.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 26 cents per share on revenue of $750.7 million, according to FactSet.
Sterne Agee’s Todd Vencil and�Kevin Bennett hone in on pricing:
Pricing wasn�� quite as strong as management had guided, but we don�� think that is an indication of negative demand trends…
We’re not concerned that the relative softness in price growth represents a negative indicator for demand. A number of factors, including shifts in geographic and product mix, could easily account for the change…
And by the looks of things, neither are investors.
- [By Eric Volkman]
Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC ) has elected to maintain its dividend. The company declared a quarterly common stock distribution of $0.01 per share, to be paid on Sept. 10 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 28. That amount matches each of the company's disbursements stretching back to December 2011.
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