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...other federal and local agencies and private corporations scale up, the field will be forced to do the same. The industry, which currently consists of a couple of hundred biometrics companies, will eventually consolidate into a handful, says Brian Ruttenbur, an equity research analyst for Morgan Keegan & Co., an investment firm based in Memphis, Tenn. "There's been a gold-rush mentality for years in the biometric space. The problem is, nobody's really found the gold yet." Three biometrics companies merged to form Identix, based in Minneapolis, Minn., which with $92 million in revenues is considered the world...
...things get so bad so fast? "The problem with a stock like this is that it attracts fanatics," says Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst at Morgan Keegan. Enthusiasts, says Ruttenbur, treated Taser like a dotcom, sending its price soaring, even though the company posted just $4.4 million in earnings in 2003. The company's rapid growth--some 10% of the nation's 1.1 million officers now have a stun gun--led investors to hope that soon every police officer would get a Taser, just as most carry batons and pepper spray...
Both occupations have boomed over the past several years. According to Brian Ruttenbur, senior vice president of MORGAN KEEGAN, an investment firm based in Memphis, spending on business intelligence and security has swelled to $7 billion annually, from $1.8 billion in 1980, and should double in the next seven years, spurred in part by the Sept. 11 attacks. While it is difficult to quantify spending on competitive intelligence because the industry is so diffuse, membership in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) has risen to nearly 7,000, from 1,550 in 1990, and the overall market for business...
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