INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY INTRODUCTION Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is a leading telecommunications service provider not only in Saudi Arabia. The firm has expanded its business to other countries such as Malaysia although their dominance in the Middle East is still apparent despite the market competition. The company operates Jawal and Hatif network systems and various internet services providers like QUICKNET, broadband services as well as television services (Helms, 2019). Their long time vision has been ten to become the Middle East’s leading provider in innovative services and platforms to acquire massive digital transformation. They aim to acquire this by being a leading digital provider of internet services as well as internet and television services. Their mission of being a leading service provider has allowed them to expand their operations from Saudi Arabia to areas such as Sudan in Africa. They managed to link these two regions through the submarine communication system via cabling.  Their success has been attained by creating and following a strategic business plan with specified goals (Pearlson, 2019). Their business strategy encompasses values that enable the company…

Apple Inc. Corporation Analysis Name: Institution:                             Apple Inc. Corporation Analysis Introduction Apple Inc. is a technological company in the United States of America that has its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The Company operates in designing, developing, and selling of computer electronics, online services, and computer software, among other products. It is one of the big four technological companies in the world which includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.  Apple Inc. is considered a public company because it trades in NASDAQ Global Select Market using AAPL as its ticker symbol (NASDAQ:AAPL, n.d.). It has also been said to have the lucrative deals in the stock exchange market. As for now, Apple Inc. stocks are 26% above the buy point. The financial position of the Company is healthy since as per the 2019 financial year, the Company recorded the net income of 59.53 billion, which was an increase from 2015 where the net income was 53.39 billion. The current stock prices of the Company are US$287.73, which is +9.15…

Following the market   24/04/2020 27/04/2020 Change % change S & P 500 $2836.74 $2878.48 $41.74 1.47% U.S. 6 – month bond yield 0.14% 0.15% 0.0001 0 U.S. 30-year bond yield     1.17% 1.25% 0.0008 6.84% WTI crude $17.18 $12.34 -4.84 -28.17% Gold $1745.70 $1720.30 -25.4 -1.46% Currency (EUR-USD) $1.1 $1.1 0 0 Microsoft corporation $174.55 $174.05 -0.5 -0.29%           Closing bell report summary Stocks started the week on a rally following weekend moves by states to ease pandemic-related shutdowns. The Dow Jones Industrial rose by 358 points; the Nasdaq Composite gained 95 points while the S&P 500 rose by 41. 74 points. The oil prices fell sharply over concerns of grand of crude oil in the market. The U.S. crude futures fell 25% on Monday. Investors are hopeful that the economy will reopen soon after.  Investors are also are looking ahead to the two-day meeting by the Federal Reserve and corporate earnings results. Companies such as Amazon Facebook and Apple are scheduled to report the first-quarter earnings in the next few days. The companies are…

Following the market   28/04/2020 29/04/2020 Change % change S & P 500 $2863.39 $2939.51 76.12 2.66% U.S. 6 – month bond yield 0.13% 0.12% 0.0001 7.70% U.S. 30-year bond yield 1.20% 1.24% 0.0004 3.33% WTI crude $13.40 $16.01 2.61 19.48% Gold $1721.00 $1731.8 10.8 0.63% Currency (EUR-USD) $1.1 $1.1 0 0 Microsoft corporation $169.81 $177.43 7.62 4.49%           Closing bell report summary Stocks rose Wednesday in hopes of Coronavirus treatment. The Dow Jones Industrial rose 532 points; the Nasdaq Composite rose by 306 points while the S&P 500 rose by 76 points. Part of the stocks rally on Wednesday was an announcement by Gilead Science on hope for coronavirus treatment following a clinical trial on a drug meant to treat Covid-19. Following the announcement, the shares of Gilead Science rose by 5.7%. The stock markets were also boosted by Fed chair Powell’s announcement that the central bank is in no hurry to end measures to boost the economy. Microsoft news today Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020,…

Assignment 2 1. The culture industry limits discourse through increasing opportunities for manipulation and control of communication while reducing the spaces for dialogical communication. As such, this reinforcement of passive consumption leads to the stifling of new and better ideas, which only emerge from debate and conflict. 2. The domination by the analogue media of the discourse in digital media. The increasing consolidation of media corporations. The dependence of interactive digital media on analogue media for discourse and legitimization. 3. It’s essential because media ownership is a major power in shaping contemporary life, as whoever owns the media owns democracy. The concerns include: Journalistic freedom. Democratic accountability. Foreign interference on political sovereignty due to foreign ownership. The threat to cultural sovereignty.     4. The problems with national identity, as per Shade and Lithgow, are that the concept consists of social inclusions and exclusions based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and language. Yes, I agree. There still exists discrimination of gay people in Canada, denoted in the hesitation of the acknowledgment and legalization of gay marriages. 5. Cultural citizenship…

The triumphant rise of variant types of media set apart from the traditional mainstream media corporations has often arguably been uncontemplated, and unprecedented. These variant forms of media separate from the mainstream, are in their conception mostly regarded as informal and passing phases, but their success and resilience in challenging the dogma of the mainstream media may well shake the very cores of journalism. Notably, scholarly studies of such variant media forms like alternative media, aboriginal media and ethnic media, indicate the existence of identifiable underlying similarities like their emergence to challenge mainstream hegemonies, advocacy for social justice, influence by multiculturalism policies and their identical leading accelerated adaptation to new technologies. Inherent differences like the difference in the audience they address and their modes of communication are additionally revealed. The emergence to counter hegemonies propagated by the mainstream media is arguably one of the most notable similarities of alternative media, aboriginal media, and ethnic media upon their comparison. Notably, the mainstream media, in most countries and nation-states, often tends to reflect the views and interests of the dominant group, at…

              Information System Infrastructure Name of Student Institutional Affiliation Name of Professor Date           Information system infrastructure has undergone an evolution in its application in time. The trends have affected how organizations utilize information technology (Oughton et al., 2016). The first notable trend in information systems infrastructure is globalization. Utilization of the internet has increased due to the availability of digital devices such as mobile phones and computers. The technological advancements leading to globalization have enabled some firms to gain a competitive advantage through the reduction of relative costs and sustaining payoffs. Recently, numerous organizations are using information systems tools like e-mails, online conferencing and mobile phones in conduction business. With information systems, companies can advertise and sell their products on the internet. Digital platforms, online software as a service and cloud computing services are the most recent trend in information systems, and their usage has enabled organizations to become more competitive by reducing the costs of production, selling or buying goods on a global scale. Another competitive advantage accrued…

        Introduction to social science – subfields of social sciences Student Name: Professor Name: University:       Introduction to social science – subfields of social sciences The academic discipline dedicated to the examination of the society is referred as Social Science. It is one of the branches of science and the focus of the discipline is on development of people, culture and the society as a whole. The ways in which society operates needs a scientific inquiry. A society is fully functional when its political and economic components are working in sync. From government policies to strategies used by corporations, the field of social science covers every detail. The field can be separated from natural science because natural science is about the study of the laws of nature and therefore, it mainly includes subjects such as chemistry, physics or biology. Contrarily, social science deals with the existing connection between societies and individuals. It does not consider the physical world like natural science. Moreover, the field is completely reliant on interpretation as well as qualitative and quantitative…

There is no doubt that the weighing of capital sources, dividend payout policy, and assessment of tax rates is necessary during corporate financing purchase and overall capital budgeting. However, Modigliani and Miller consider these considerations irrelevant since they are of the opinion that the capital structure of the organization is immaterial to the firms’ valuations (Modiglianu & Miller, 1958). According to Modigliani and Miller, the operating profit of the organization that determines the value of the market. Besides, they argued that the value of the market of the organization is determined by the investment risks as well as the future growth prospect. Their argument is contrary to what capital theory advocates support i.e., a company’s value is driven by its applied capital structure or the firm’s financing decision. This means that the company with a mix of equity (leverage company) and debt is valued the same as the company with wholly financed by equity (unleveraged firm) (Miller & Modigliani, 1961). The weighted Average Cost of Capital refers to the average price of return that a firm should pay to creditors…

Opportunities and Challenges That Transnational Corporations Present to The Governance of Natural Resources. Natural resources form the basic framework of life on earth for human beings and animals. Natural resources encompass all the naturally occurring supplies needed for maintaining, promoting, and thriving of lifeforms on earth such as land, forests, rocks, water, fossil fuels, animals, minerals, sunlight, and air. Mining and extraction of these natural resources form some of the most critical and most sought activities, especially by multinational corporations. Arguably, the most sought-after kinds of natural resources include fossil fuels, forests, minerals, and rocks. Mining and extraction of natural resources is mainly done by transnational corporations since they have the capacity and the resources needed for mining and extracting the natural resources. These include having the financial as well as equipment sophistication necessary for mining and extraction of natural resources. So that there is a controlled and sustainable approach of mining and extracting natural resources, there is a system of governance that dictates and directs the transnational corporations regarding how they conduct their business.    When mining and extracting natural…