On Tuesday, Shares of Aecom (NYSE:ACM), gained 1.92% to $29.19.
AECOM, declared that it was awarded a fixed-rate task order under the General Services Administration (GSA) Logistics Worldwide (LOGWORLD) plan to support the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) in Texas. The US$92-million task order is for a base period of one year with two one-year options accessible.
“We look forward to strengthening and expanding our depot maintenance services by providing support to the U.S. Army,” said Randy Wotring, president of AECOM’s administration services group. “AECOM will provide all of the mechanics and specialties services needed for aircraft and component repair to assist the Corpus Christi Army Depot’s efforts.”
AECOM, together with its auxiliaries, provides professional technical and administration support services for public and private clients worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Professional Technical Services (PTS) and Administration Support Services (MSS).
Shares of News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA), declined -0.79% to $15.13, during its last trading session.
News Corp, declared that Checkout 51, their newly attained mobile savings app has won Juniper Research’s Future Digital Award for Best Platform for Mobile Coupons, beating out a number of influential industry players for the title. Checkout 51 enables consumers to browse weekly discount offers on a wide range of grocery items and then redeem the offers post-purchase by taking a photo of their receipt.
The Future Digital Awards are awarded annually by Juniper Research – a company that specializes in identifying and appraising high growth market sectors within the digital ecosystem – to companies that have an unrivaled position in their sector, and are poised to make considerable industry impact. Checkout 51 was recognized for its unique cross-retailer, SKU-level grocery purchase data which is tied to individual consumers via their grocery receipts. The data allows Checkout 51 to provide consumers with offers that are relevant to them based on their shopping history, and gives brands actionable insights to maximize performance and budget; something Juniper Research recognized as unparalleled in the current mobile savings space.
“It’s a thrill to be recognized for innovation in the online and mobile space by a globally respected organization like Juniper Research,” said Noah Godfrey, Founder of Checkout 51. “We will continue to be on the cutting edge of savings technology, offering consumers new, easy ways to stretch their budgets, and providing our CPG clients with data to provide consumers engaging offers while delivering real-time insights into their products.”
News Corporation, a media and information services company, focuses on creating and distributing content to consumers and businesses worldwide. The company distributes content and data products, such as The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Dow Jones Private Markets, and DJX through various media channels, counting newspapers, newswires, Websites, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, and video, in addition to applications for mobile devices, tablets, and electronic readers.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Shares of Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN), lost -1.22% to $167.72.
Amgen and the Center for Social Sector Leadership at the University of California (UC), Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, declared a multi-year partnership to offer a graduate-level course on measuring outcomes of cancer patient advocacy education and support programs. The MBA course, Social Impact Metrics, is designed to advance the ability of nonprofit organizations to measure the effectiveness of their programs, which is critical in an increasingly challenging donor environment. The overall aim of the initiative is to create a set of measurement best practices that can be adopted across the cancer nonprofit community and beyond.
Amgen has awarded four cancer patient advocacy groups - Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Cancer Support Community, Chris4Life Colon Cancer Foundation and Critical Mass - with $35,000 sponsorships to measure the impact of an educational or support initiative. The Berkeley MBA students and faculty will work with the winners to evaluate a specific metrics challenge, recommend a solution, and provide an implementation plan during the semester-long course from August to December 2015.
“Establishing meaningful metrics is critical for nonprofits to improve their impact on the lives of those they serve and demonstrate results to funders,” said Colin Boyle, deputy director of University of California, San Francisco Global Health Services and the Haas faculty member who will be teaching this course.
Amgen Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. It focuses for the treatment of illness in the areas of oncology, hematology, inflammation, bone health, nephrology, cardiovascular, and general medicine.
Finally, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), ended its last trade with -2.21% loss, and closed at $42.96.
Xilinx, declared that the Open-Source Virtual Reality Consortium has selected Xilinx All Programmable devices to enable the industry’s first, fully upgradable virtual reality headset, the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) Hacker Development Kit. This development kit provides virtual reality developers a completely modularized platform to create their content on the OSVR and comprises a positioning and head tracking device, a display, and double lens optics.
Co-founded by Razer, a world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems, the OSVR sets an open standard for virtual reality input devices, games and output to create the best possible virtual reality experiences. Xilinx, a member of the OSVR ecosystem, provides critical technologies that accelerates the virtual reality platform deployment with shorter production times and variety of interface standards counting HDMI, Display Port and USB.
“Xilinx FPGAs and All Programmable SoCs provide customization options to make the Hacker Development Kit versatile and easy to reprogram. This allows developers to make tweaks for added functionality like multiple sensors and algorithms for computer vision processing,” said Lau Lee Yang, senior director for OSVR business development at Razer. “In the near future the Hacker Development Kit will also be able to offload software processing tasks such as optical distortion correction using its hardware and potentially perform image enhancement functions.”
Xilinx, Inc. designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies worldwide. Its programmable devices comprise integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), such as programmable system on chips, and three dimensional ICs; software design tools to program the PLDs; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and intellectual property (IP), which comprises of Xilinx and various third-party verification and IP cores.
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