On Wednesday, Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), gained 0.08% to $47.58.
One day after Netflix declared noteworthy changes to its parental leave policy, tech giant Microsoft has revealed its own upgrades for employees who plan to be mothers or fathers, according to USA Today.
In a statement released Wednesday, Microsoft says it is extending leave for moms and dads to 12 weeks at full pay. Birth mothers can also earn an additional eight weeks of “maternity disability leave” with full pay. USA Today Reports
The company says it will also allow birth mothers to use short-term disability leave during the two weeks before their planned due date. The changes take effect on November 1. USA Today added
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
Shares of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL), inclined 0.82% to $39.27, during its last trading session.
PayPal Holdings, declared John D. Rainey is joining the digital payments leader as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective August 24, 2015. Rainey joins PayPal from United Continental Holdings, Inc. where he was Executive Vice President and CFO at United Airlines. Rainey brings with him an extensive background in corporate finance, treasury, financial planning and analysis, tax, investor relations, planned planning and risk administration together with a deep appreciation for PayPal and its unique position driving the global transformation of money.
Rainey will lead PayPal’s financial operations, regional finance teams and investor relations. He will report directly to Schulman. He will succeed Patrick Dupuis, who has served as PayPal’s CFO for five years.
Dupuis will remain at PayPal and will continue to report directly to Schulman in the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Simplicity, Quality and Productivity. In this capacity, Dupuis will lead a corporate-wide transformation initiative designed to drive PayPal’s productivity, service quality and customer experience.
PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates as a technology platform company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. It enables businesses of various sizes to accept payments from merchant Websites, mobile devices, and applications, in addition to at offline retail locations through a range of payment solutions across company’s payments platform, counting PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo, and Braintree products.
Finally, HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), ended its last trade with -1.89% loss, and closed at $92.26.
HCA Holdings declared financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Key second quarter metrics (all percentage changes compare 2Q 2015 to 2Q 2014 unless noted):
- Revenues raised 7.2 percent to $9.897 billion
- Net income attributable to HCA Holdings, Inc. totaled $507 million, or $1.18 per diluted share
- Net income per diluted share not taking into account losses on sales of facilities and losses on retirement of debt, was $1.37 per diluted share for 2Q 2015
- Adjusted EBITDA totaled $2.008 billion
- Cash flows from operations totaled $1.057 billion
- Same facility equivalent admissions raised 4.9 percent while same facility admissions raised 4.1 percent
- Same facility revenue per equivalent admission raised 1.2 percent
- Same facility revenue per equivalent admission raised 2.8 percent, after not taking into account from revenues the $142 million Texas Medicaid Waiver adjustment in 2Q 2014
HCA Holdings, Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides health care services in the United States. It operates general, acute care hospitals that offer medical and surgical services, counting inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy services.
DISCLAIMER:
This article is published by www.wsnewspublishers.com. The Content included in this article is just for informational purposes only. All information used in this article is believed to be from reliable sources, but we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, or reliability with respect to this article.
All visitors are advised to conduct their own independent research into individual stocks before making a purchase decision.
Information contained in this article contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, counting statements regarding the predictable continual growth of the market for the corporation’s products, the corporation’s ability to fund its capital requirement in the near term and in the long term; pricing pressures; etc.
Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, aims, assumptions, or future events or performance may be forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations, estimates, and projections at the time the statements are made that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those presently anticipated. Forward looking statements may be identified with such words as expects, will, anticipates, estimates, believes, or by statements indicating certain actions may, could, should/might occur.
