On Monday, Shares of Apollo Education Group Inc (NASDAQ:APOL), lost -1.48% to $12.62.
Apollo Education Group declared that its Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Steve Ritter, Ph.D., will be featured on a panel at the California “Tech for Schools” Superintendent’s Summit: presented by EdSurge, the California Department of Education and the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation in Davis, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2015. The panel will talk about how educators and students use technology in a collaborative environment with input from all stakeholders.
The summit brings together leading superintendents and district teams, compriseing of curriculum and technology directors and board members, from across California together with creative educational technology entrepreneurs. The aim is to advance critical innovative technologies and familiarize participants with rules for assessing new technology in California school districts. Dr. Ritter will take part in the “Increasing students’ collaboration, creativity and critical thinking” focus panel.
Apollo Education Group, Inc. provides private education services. It offers online and on-campus undergraduate, graduate, professional development, and other non-degree educational programs and services primarily to working learners in the United States and internationally.
Shares of Ferro Corporation (NYSE:FOE), inclined 0.36% to $13.94, during its last trading session.
Ferro Corporation, stated results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. Second quarter income from ongoing operations attributable to common shareholders was $0.14 per diluted share contrast with $0.15 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2014. On an adjusted basis, earnings per diluted share were $0.20, as compared to $0.19 for the second quarter of 2014. The results in both years comprise a number of charges relating to, among other items, restructuring activities. Please refer to the supplemental tables at the end of this release for additional information concerning adjusted financial results.
Second quarter 2015 net sales were $268 million, while value-added sales, which exclude precious metal sales, were $257 million. In the same period last year, net sales and value-added sales were $294 million and $282 million, respectively. On a constant currency basis, value-added sales raised 5%. The impact of foreign currency translation reduced value-added sales by about $36 million.
Ferro Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, produces specialty materials in the United States and internationally. It operates through four business units: Tile Coating Systems; Porcelain Enamel; Performance Colors and Glass; and Pigments, Powders and Oxides.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Shares of Polycom Inc (NASDAQ:PLCM), lost -2.99% to $11.04.
Driven by creating high-quality, easy-to-use partnership experiences for organizations of any size, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM), declared two new affordable, entry-level desktop phones as part of its market-leading voice solutions portfolio.
Communication between colleagues, suppliers and vendors is the cornerstone of any business, and being able to focus on the message instead of the technology is paramount to productive conversations. Polycom’s well-established line of VVX business media phones is known for easy-to-use design and unparalleled voice quality for clear, uninterrupted conversations. Like their predecessors, the new Polycom VVX 101 and Polycom VVX 201 phones work with a variety of unified communications platforms and are designed for organizations of all sizes and budgets.
Polycom, Inc. provides partnershipsolutions for voice, video, and content sharing. The company offers video, voice, and content-administration and content-sharing solutions, such as telepresence and conference room systems, home/work office solutions, applications for mobile devices, browser-based video collaboration, and cloud-delivered services, in addition to industry-specific solutions, counting specialized video carts and solutions for healthcare, education, and manufacturing.
Finally, Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN), ended its last trade with -0.17% loss, and closed at $108.90.
In a first-of-its-kind test, the U.S. Navy fired a Raytheon Company (RTN) Standard Missile-6, intercepting and destroying a short-range ballistic missile target at sea. The successful U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) test proved a modified SM-6 can eliminate threat ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight.
“SM-6 is the only missile in the world that can do both anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense from sea,” said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems. “U.S. Navy commanders want both capability and flexibility to meet a wide variety of missions, and that’s exactly what SM-6 offers.”
Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions in the areas of sensing; effects; command, control, communications, and intelligence; mission support; and cyber and information security worldwide.
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