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3 Hot Stocks in the News: eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM)

On Wednesday, Shares of eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY), lost -1.22% to $27.43.

Magento, an eBay Enterprise company, in partnership with New Relic, Inc. (NEWR), declared an extension for the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud, designed to provide customers with a deeper understanding of their applications’ performance and customer engagement activities. Magento retailers can now access powerful software and business analytics through custom dashboards delivered by New Relic Insights and use New Relic APM (Application Performance Monitoring) to improve site speed and stability. The extension is accessible on the Magento Connect marketplace for both the Enterprise Edition and Community Edition platforms.

“There is no question that website performance is a key factor in driving transactions and inspiring customer loyalty. By reducing website page response times by one second alone, a site’s conversion rate can enhance by seven percent, according to The Aberdeen Group,” said Steve Yankovich, chief product officer, eBay Enterprise.1 “Our partnership with New Relic gives retailers using the extension a crucial line of sight into their business, performance and environmental data, which allows for better informed decisions to drive higher conversion rates, and ultimately generate more revenue.”

eBay Inc. operates as a technology company that enables commerce and payments on behalf of users, merchants, retailers, and brands of various sizes in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Marketplaces, Payments, and Enterprise.

Shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), declined -0.42% to $57.59, during its last trading session.

Starbucks Coffee Company opened its first store in Panama, making it Starbucks 15th market in Latin America and 67th worldwide. Located in Panama City’s Street Mall shopping center, the new store proudly features Starbucks Reserve Panama Carmen Estate coffee, part of the company’s exclusive Starbucks Reserve collection of unique, small-batch coffees.

“We are proud to bring the Starbucks Experience to customers in Panama and build our brand in a way that honors the coffee passion and traditions inherent to this region,” said Rich Nelsen, senior vice president and general manager for Starbucks in Latin America, where the company now has more than 880 stores employing over 12,000 partners (employees). “By extending our relationship with Premium Restaurants of America, we are diligently positioning the brand for continued growth in Latin America as we enter our 15th market in the region.”

Starbucks stores in Panama are operated through a planned licensing agreement with El Salvador-based Premium Restaurants of America (PRA), formerly named Corporación de Franquicias Americanas (CFA), which initially teamed up with Starbucks in 2010 for the opening of the company’s first store in San Salvador. Since then PRA has opened 19 Starbucks® stores, with eight in El Salvador, five in Guatemala, five in Costa Rica and one opening recently in Panama, employing more than 340 partners across the region. Together, Starbucks and PRA plan to open at least 20 stores in Panama City over the next five years.

Starbucks Corporation operates as a roaster, marketer, and retailer of specialty coffee worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; China/Asia Pacific; and Channel Development. The company’s stores offer coffee and tea beverages, packaged roasted whole bean and ground coffees, single serve products, and juices and bottled water.

Finally, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), ended its last trade with -0.72% loss, and closed at $26.22.

Demonstrating its commitment to further network’s empowerment, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), declared the worldwide availability of the Microsoft Advisor service plan to Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Initially projected in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the service plan now extends to 13 countries counting Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Network partners worldwide can quickly and seamlessly convert Advisor Office 365 subscriptions to the advantageous CSP program in a self-serve automated through the cloud market Ingram Micro.

Microsoft CSP program is designed to provide network partners a higher level of profitability, gross sales, and ownership of customer relations, establishment of the contract to invoicing through assistance art. Ingram Micro provides network partners a simple three-step process to convert subscriptions Advisor to the new CSP program on the cloud market. The fully automated process allows network partners to provide, group, charge, manage and integrate Microsoft Cloud Solutions with greater ease and efficiency. Authorized to sell cloud services through the Microsoft CSP program in over 40 countries, Ingram Micro CSP adopted the program as an important pillar in its cloud networking strategy.

Ingram Micro Inc. distributes information technology (IT) products; and provides supply chain and mobile device lifecycle services worldwide. The company offers printers, scanners, displays, projectors, monitors, panels, mass storage, and tape products; digital signage products; digital cameras and video disc players, game consoles, televisions, audio, small appliances, media administration, and home control products; barcode/card printers, AIDC scanners and software, and wireless infrastructure products; Internet protocol video surveillance, security and fire alarm systems, and access control smart cards; processors, motherboards, hard drives, and memory products; and ink and toner supplies, paper, carrying cases, and anti-glare screens.

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