While its main business is providing financial information, Brooklyn-based Track Data owns, ironically, a stock brokerage.
About that time, says the SEC, Track Data decided to issue its first-ever dividend, which likely would boost the stock.
On Aug. 12, Track Data announced a 22% drop in quarterly revenue, and its stock dropped 32% over two days.
From smart TVs to transparent smart windows, more and more devices are connected to the Internet and deliver and track data.
As the SEC tells the story, Hertz knew in July 2003 that revenue from Track Data's flagship product, MX, which provides market information to professional traders, was declining.
The Track Data story contains one other interesting element.
For openers, he's the chairman and chief executive--top dog--and majority owner of the company, Track Data (nasdaq: TRAC - news - people ), in whose stock he purportedly trafficked.
On July 11, 2003, the firm's chief financial officer sent an e-mail to all employees, including Hertz, saying there should be no trading in Track Data shares until earnings were announced on Aug. 12.
There are two main foes in consumers' ongoing struggle to preserve their online privacy: companies that collect data and track people's online behavior to sell them things, and law enforcement agencies that collect data and track people to investigate crimes.
In addition to a 30-day overview of users' app data usage, Onavo Count also gives users individual App Profiles, complete with charts that track weekly data usage and gauges that measure individual app's overall mobile data usage.
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Ohio doesn't track leasing data, but county courthouses have seen a surge in lease filings.
The registries will track patient data and treatment information relevant to a particular condition.
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Today, Cisco's biggest wireless customers are retailers who use the company's wireless systems to track shipping data.
Customers say the product helps them better track their data spending and run, test and fix computer equipment.
Holdings of physically-backed ETFs hit record highs this month, according to analysts who compile and track the data.
The 14% who do not track nor plan to track transaction data?
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Applications organize, present and track that data, offering up insights like which customers are the most profitable ones and which salespeople land the best deals.
Implenia's engineers could use that virtual world mock-up to remotely track the data center's power consumption and efficiency in ways that would have otherwise been tough without visiting the location.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
The NTSB says the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority reported the problem during a post-accident review of track circuit data, but it was not immediately clear if operators were aware of the problem before the accident.
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The 40% who have no plans to track basic demographic data such as household size and income?
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The technology used by Facebook and other social media websites track actual PERSONAL data, and not just location.
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In dollar terms it's the biggest boost since the firm started keeping track of the data a decade ago.
In May of 2011, GameStreams started development of a system to track the viewership data of every stream that they aggregate.
Yet another customer uses our chips in casino gaming systems to keep track of user data, configuration settings and transaction data.
They even track certain medical data and requirements for specific employees.
An arrangement with StubHub or Viagogo enables them to track the same data from aftermarket sales, providing a truer measure of who's going to the games.
The new plan is designed to satisfy both data-hungry customers who want to experience all their smartphones are capable of and those wanting the peace of mind of never having to keep track of their data usage.
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By setting up a few simple Excel formulas (nothing more complicated than addition and division, you can see what they look like in this sample spreadsheet), you can not only track your maintenance data (what the mechanics did, when they did it, how much it cost, and what the mileage was at the time) but also see your average daily mileage during each period between servicings.
Not only are apps obtaining data directly from people's Facebook accounts, some apps are also letting unapproved advertising companies track users, according to data collected from PrivacyChoice, a start-up that offers privacy services.
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