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Toshiba turmoil update

  • Japan Industrial Partners Inc.(JIP) is considering launching a tender offer for Toshiba Corp. by the end of next March, according to article in the Japan Times newspaper
  • JIP, which holds preferential negotiating rights, plans to procure necessary funds exceeding 2.2 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) by securing investments from over 10 companies and taking out bank loans.
  • aims to accelerate reconstruction of Toshiba by acquiring all its shares from activist and other shareholders and taking the company private.
  • banks involved have not made a clear promise to extend loans for the buyout

HP reports last quarter’s earnings

  • Total net revenue down 11.2% to $14.8 billion
  • Printing division revenue down 7.1% to $4.533 billion (includes PPS, MFPs, printers, etc.)
    • Non-GAAP operating profit of $903 million
    • Profit from this division is 66% of total company
    • Supplies revenue down 10%

Total hardware units down 3%

    • Commercial revenue up 1%
    • Consumer revenue down 7%
  • Personal Systems division revenue down 13% to $10.267 billion
    • Non-GAAP operating profit of $458 million

Plans to reduce total headcount by as much as 6,000 employees by end of 2025

    • Plans for $1 billion in restructuring charges
    • “portfolio optimization” will focus on businesses where HP can be #1 or #2 over next 3 years
    • (3 years ago HP cut up to 9,000 employees in last reorg)

Epson provides more detail on new A3 MFPs

  • Now shipping new color inkjet A3 MFPs, the WorkForce Enterprise AM-C4000, C5000 and C6000 models
  • Top speeds of 40pp, 50ppm & 60ppm respectively
  • Use PrecisionCore Micro TFP piezo crystal inkjet printhead technology
    • 7,230 nozzles per color in printhead
  • Use DURABrite water-based inks
  • First print out time as fast as 5.6 seconds
  • Recommended monthly duty cycle range from 5.8K/month to 60K/mo
  • 10.1” color LCD touchscreen control panel
  • Comes standard with 1,150 sheet paper capacity
    • Maximum paper capacity of 5,150 sheets with options
  • Document feeder scans both sides of original at same time
    • Holds up to 150 originals
    • Top scan speed of 120ppm or 60ppm
  • Finishing options include stapling and booklet making
  • Built-in print controller:
    • 8GB RAM
    • 320GB hard drive with encryption
    • 10/100/1000BaseT & USB ports
    • WLAN
    • PCL and PS print drivers standard
    • Data security features include; TLS 1.3, SSL, SNMP v3, IPSec

Supply chain update

  • The SMART Transportation division, the union representing railroad conductors, announced that negotiations over new contract has until 12/8/22 deadline to avoid potential nationwide strike, which would disrupt supply chain across the U.S.
  • “It is about attendance policies, sick time, fatigue, and the lack of family time. A lot of these things that cannot be seen but are felt by our membership. It is destroying their livelihoods”; stated Jared Cassity of SMART.
  • The current contract offer includes a 24% pay increase by 2024
  • “what a terrible Christmas gift that would be to give to the American people at this point…right before Christmas, shutting down our supply chain”; stated US Congressman Rick Crawford of Arkansas.
  • A single railcar can contain 2,000 UPS packages, tens of thousands of bananas or hundreds of flat screen TVs

 

Lexmark offers new solution option

  • Now offering the Translation Assistant
  • Provides document language translation in real time through Lexmark MFP or a user’s desktop
  • Users scan documents in the MFP to the Lexmark Cloud Service (LCS) platform where they are translated
  • Documents can be printed and/or emailed
  • Pricing not announced

Sharp’s parent has massive riot at plant

  • Sharp is owned by Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan
  • Reuters News Service reported that hundreds if not thousands of workers took part in protests/riots outside Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China this past week
  • The plant is used to assemble Apple iPhones, employs up to 200,000 people
  • Workers were reportedly smashing surveillance cameras, and windows
  • Caused by unrest over ultra-harsh COVID rules issued by Chinese government, as well as “inept handling of the situation” by Foxconn
  • Trigger for start of protests on Wednesday supposedly caused by Foxconn plan to delay bonus payments to employees
  • Video footage showed protesters being sprayed with tear gas, and physically beaten by police officers
    • Kuaishou, a social media platform which posted the videos, has now removed them from site
  • Foxconn said in statement that it had fulfilled its payment contracts and that reports of COVID-19 infected staff living on campus with new recruits were untrue
  • Foxconn had recently implemented closed-loop operations, where staff live and work onsite, insulated from rest of world, as part of COVID policy
    • This policy caused discontent, COVID outbreaks still occurred, and employees complained about poor conditions, including shortages of food, causing some employees to fleet the company
    • Some have estimated that thousands of workers fled the factory campus
    • Apple Insider magazine is reporting that Foxconn has offered $1400 to protesters, conditional on their resignation, and that over 20,000 accepted the payment

 

M-files solution offers new integration

  • M-Files is a provider of document management/enterprise content management solutions
  • Now offering integration with Adobe for document e-signature solution with Adobe Acrobat Sign
  • Pricing not announced

 

Laserfiche solution adds features

  • Laserfiche is a provider of document management/enterprise content management sulutions
  • Announced it now offers handwriting recognition capabilities
  • Users can extract text from semi-structured documents that include handwriting
  • Pricing not announced

Xerox wins large government MPS contract

  • Award from the Ministry of Defense in England
  • Includes 35,000 devices for over 200,000 users across 900 locations in 21 countries
  • Includes secure print release solution

 

Fujifilm launches new production print device

  • Launched the new Jet Press 1160CF
  • High speed continuous feed color inkjet system
  • Aimed at the transactional and publishing print market
  • Top print speed of 160 meters per minute (2096ppm) at 1200x600dpi
    • Speed of 80 meters per minute at 1200x1200dpi
  • Use water-based pigment inks
  • Artificial intelligence to optimize image quality
  • Uses CMYK ink packs
  • Pricing not announced

Commercial print device market growth

  • Market research published by IMARC Group
  • Includes production print on paper, cardboard and packaging
  • Total market size will reach $9 billion by 2027
  • CAGR (cumulative annual growth rate) of 2.9%

 

CYBERSECURITY & HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS

Cyber attacks on healthcare vertical increasing

  • Article published in Renal & Urology News:
    • 55% of healthcare organizations have experienced a cyber attack in last 12 months
    • 39% of healthcare facilities allocate 15% or less of their annual IT budget towards cyber security
    • 52% say securing 3rd party access is not a priority for IT security team
  • Article published in Data Breach Today;
    • Since 2009, 370 million medical records have been exposed due to breaches
    • Volume and frequency of healthcare breaches has nearly doubled

 

Healthcare employment details

  • Research published by American Hospital Association
  • Total employment growing 13% from 2021 to 2031, faster than any other vertical
  • Will add minimum of 2 million net new jobs buy 2031
  • Nurse practitioners up 9% to 355,000 now licensed in US
  • 23% of current workers will be quitting the vertical soon due to stress
  • 94% of CEOs say a deficit of nurses is the most pressing issue within personnel shortages
  • US could face a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2034

Epic wins EHR contract

  • Award from West Coast Academic Medical Center
  • 630 bed facility in Los Angeles, CA

 

HIPAA/cybersecurity breaches in the news

  • One Brooklyn Health, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, may be notifying a large number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after cyber incident.
    • medical staff has been unable to access PHI (patient medical records) or to upload laboratory and test results to electronic patient portals
    • outage affects Interfaith Medical Center, Brookdale Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.
  • Community Health Network, headquartered in Indianapolis, IN notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after it was inadvertently shared with Facebook and Google.
  • Yakima Neighborhood Health Services of Washington state, notified 2,689 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber security incident.
  • University Medical Center of Southern Nevada located in Las Vegas, Nevada, notified 1,861 patients that their PHI was exposed after it was illegally accessed by a former employee.
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, headquartered in Rockville, MD, notified 8,556 patients that their PHI was exposed after it will illegally accessed by a former employee.
  • Forefront Dermatology of Manitowoc, WI agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle allegations of negligence regarding a breach that exposed PHI of 2.4 million patients.
  • Wright & Filippis Orthotics/Prosthetics of Michigan notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Pearland Independent School District of Texas notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • The County of Tehama, CA notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Tuloso Midway Independent School District of Texas notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Tridas Group of Tampa, Florida is notifying 16,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • Southhampton County of Virginia has notified an unknown number of citizens that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.

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