On Thursday, Anthem Inc (NYSE:ANTM)’s shares declined -0.81% to $138.87.
Thanks to a generous $213,120 grant from the Anthem Foundation, the United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) is happy to implement the National Fitness Challenge for the fourth successive year. During the next year, the USABA is partnering with 12 agencies throughout the United States to provide more than 500 blind and visually impaired adults with opportunities to enhance their physical fitness levels and live healthier, more active lives.
The aim of this program is to raise the physical activity levels of each participant to the level recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This year’s program will integrate the use of technology and social media to assist the participants set aims, create team environments and encourage leadership. The USABA will provide each participant with a Fitbit, which provides a universal way to measure many kinds of activities, calories burned and the number of steps taken. Some of the activities comprised of in this year’s challenge comprise aimball, indoor rowing (outdoor if accessible), running, judo, yoga and couch to 5k/half marathon programs.
Research has comprising shown that individuals who take part in regular physical activity to improve their health have higher energy levels, a lower risk of health-related diseases, improved psychological health, and lower rates of depression and anxiety. Unfortunately, because of the numerous barriers and misconceptions about their abilities, more than half of those who are blind and visually impaired in the United States do not take part in even a limited physical fitness routine.
Anthem, Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Commercial and Specialty Business, Government Business, and Other. The company offers a spectrum of network-based managed care health benefit plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. Its managed care plans comprise preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans and other hybrid plans, such as consumer-driven health plans; and hospital only and limited benefit products.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s shares gained 0.78% to $79.95.
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (: CHKP), the largest pure-play security vendor globally, recently declared it has joined the AirWatch® Mobile Security Alliance as a founding member. Together, Check Point and AirWatch will drive new ways for customers to protect the growing number of devices accessing corporate data and netoperates, and delivers a complete solution for stopping mobile threats before they start.
In the last decade, mobile devices not only have represented one of the largest accelerators of business, but also the largest threat to their security. According to Check Point’s 2015 Security Report, 91 percent of all those surveyed stated an enhance in the number of employee-owned mobile devices connecting to the corporate network. Alarmingly, nearly half of these organizations are doing nothing to manage and protect these devices. The study further reveals existing solutions have left IT vulnerable, with limited security controls and no ability to detect advanced threats and proactively remediate them.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a range of software, combined hardware, and software products and services for information technology (IT) security worldwide. It offers a portfolio of network security, endpoint security, data security, and administration solutions.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Red Hat Inc (NYSE:RHT)‘s shares surged 1.82% to $73.19.
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), the world’s largest provider of open source software solutions, recently declared that Corvesta, Inc. has selected Red Hat CloudForms as part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure to manage its build-out of a cohesive, hybrid cloud infrastructure aimed at business diversification. CloudForms will manage Corvesta’s existing private cloud infrastructure comprising of resources from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon Web Services and VMware.
Corvesta, Inc., a company dedicated to advancing oral health, evaluated multiple cloud administration platforms in order to transform their legacy infrastructure into an agile sandbox environment for development, as well as to explore the possibility of horizontal scaling through cloud computing that could respond to the business’ demand. They selected Red Hat CloudForms for its open source ecosystem, which allows the solution to fully integrate and serve as the primary interface for Corvesta’s existing cloud and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization resources with little-to-no modification. Additionally, Red Hat CloudForms comprises Corvesta’s required infrastructure and administration tools in addition to a robust suite of offerings around compliance and policy administration, service catalog administration, automation and reporting, and optimization and utilization toolsets.
Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. It develops and offers operating system, virtualization, middleware, storage, and cloud technologies. The company’s products comprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system platform that runs on hardware for use in physical, virtual, container, and cloud environments; Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, which comprises standalone virtualization functionality and administration tools for server and desktop deployments; and Red Hat JBoss Middleware that offers middleware for developing, deploying, and managing applications, in addition to integrating applications, data and devices, and automating business processes.
Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 2.73% gain, and closed at $1.88.
Plug Power Inc. (PLUG), a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions strongly supports the Fuel Cell Tax Extenders Act of 2015 introduced by Representative John Larson (CT-01) with original co-sponsors Representatives Paul Tonko (NY-20) and Chris Gibson (NY-19) on Friday, September 18, 2015. The bi-partisan bill will extend federal incentives for residential, commercial and vehicular fuel cell use in addition to extend and expand credits for hydrogen infrastructure. This legislation will provide important certainty for fuel cell manufacturers and Plug Power’s GenDrive and ReliOn customers.
The current tax incentives for fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure are set to expire at the end of this year, while the fuel cell investment tax credit for material handling and stationary fuel cells will end on December 31, 2016. This legislation will extend all of the credits through the year 2021. The Fuel Cell Extenders Act of 2015 assists to level the playing field, enabling customers of all sizes to invest in new business-improving technology like hydrogen fuel cells.
Plug Power Inc., an alternative energy technology provider, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and commercialization of fuel cell systems for the industrial off-road markets worldwide.
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