On Thursday, Shares of Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD), gained 1.57% to $9.04.
Rite Aid Corporation declared that all of the Company’s nearly 4,600 stores nationwide will start accepting mobile payments, counting Apple PayTM and Google Wallet TM, starting Saturday, August 15. The Company will also accept Google’s forthcoming Android Pay TM. Additionally, all Rite Aid stores will also accept tap and pay credit and debit cards.
“Increasingly, consumers are actively seeking out and incorporating mobile technology into many facets of their life, counting their shopping and purchasing decisions,” said Ken Martindale, CEO of Rite Aid stores and president of Rite Aid Corporation. “By accepting mobile payments, we’re able to offer Rite Aid customers an easy and convenient checkout process, which we know is important to them. Investing in mobile technologies is just one piece of Rite Aid’s evolving digital strategy and we will continue to explore, test and implement innovative technologies that will assist us to better serve our valued customers.”
Rite Aid Corporation, through its auxiliaries, operates a chain of retail drugstores in the United States. The company sells prescription drugs and a range of other merchandise, counting over-the-counter medications, health and beauty aids, personal care items, cosmetics, household items, food and beverages, greeting cards, seasonal merchandise, and other every day and convenience products.
Shares of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), declined -0.04% to $26.37, during its last trading session.
EMC Corporation declared that the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.115 per common share. The dividend will be payable on October 23, 2015 to shareholders of record as of October 1, 2015.
EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions, and services. It offers enterprise storage systems and software deployed in storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, object storage, and/or direct attached storage environments, in addition to provides a portfolio of backup products that support a range of enterprise application workloads.
Finally, Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ:MYL), ended its last trade with -2.06% loss, and closed at $54.22.
Mylan declared that it has formally lowered the acceptance condition for its offer to acquire Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO; TASE) from not less than 80% of Perrigo ordinary shares to greater than 50% of Perrigo ordinary shares.
As formerly declared, on Aug. 6, 2015, Mylan entered Amendment No. 2 to its bridge credit agreement, which allows Mylan to lower the acceptance condition to a number of Perrigo ordinary shares representing more than 50% of the voting rights then exercisable at a general meeting of Perrigo without further consent from the lenders.
Mylan N.V., through its auxiliaries, develops, licenses, manufactures, markets, and distributes generic, branded generic, and specialty pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company provides generic or branded generic pharmaceutical products in tablet, capsule, injectable, or transdermal patch forms, in addition to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
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