During Thursday’s Current trade, Shares of Ericsson (ADR) (NASDAQ:ERIC), gain 0.42% to $9.79.
Ericsson (ERIC) declared the commercial availability of Ericsson MediaFirst, a next-generation Pay TV platform that transforms TV and video entertainment. Built using modern cloud-based architectures, Ericsson MediaFirst brings together the best of traditional Pay TV and over-the-top services, giving operators and content providers the ability to deliver constantly optimizing, highly personalized TV experiences on any device.
Ericsson MediaFirst adapts agile development principles and practices to fit the needs of a business-to-business-to-consumer TV platform, providing operators a continuous stream of new innovations. Much like web services, MediaFirst empowers operators to act on the platform’s built-in analytics in real time, leading to rapid innovation cycles, greater monetization opportunities and faster time to market for new features and targeted offerings.
Since its introduction at the 2014 International Broadcasting Convention, Ericsson MediaFirst has been in trials with targeted operators and is now ready for commercial release. TELUS, a leading Canadian telecommunications company with over 950,000 TV subscribers, has successfully accomplished an initial trial of Ericsson MediaFirst and plans to enhance its Optik TV services, leveraging the MediaFirst cloud-based solution.
Ericsson provides communications technology and services worldwide. The company’s Netoperates segment delivers products and solutions for mobile access, Internet protocol (IP) and transmission netoperates, core netoperates, and cloud. This segment offers radio access solutions; IP routing and transport solutions; transmission/backhaul solutions comprising microwave and optical transmission solutions for mobile and fixed netoperates; IP multimedia subsystem solutions; and operations support systems, in addition to supports operators administration of existing netoperates. Its Global Services segment delivers managed services, such as services for designing, building, operating, and managing netoperates or solutions; maintenance; network sharing solutions; shared solutions; and managed services of IT environments, in addition to provides broadcast and media services.
Shares of AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE:AFL), inclined 1.03% to $57.58, during its current trading session.
Aflac, the leading provider of voluntary insurance at the work site in the United States, has partnered with LifeHealthPro to conduct a three-part webinar series, “Thrive from 2015 to 2025,” starting tomorrow. The three-part webinar series aims to address the ongoing changes in the health insurance industry resulting from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how brokers can take advantage of their new role as health benefits advisors.
The webinars will take place on Thursday, Sept. 10; Thursday, Oct. 8 and Thursday, Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Participants in this three-part leadership series will learn more on the following topics:
Aflac Incorporated, through its partner, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers various voluntary supplemental insurance products, counting cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan.
Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG), during its Thursday’s current trading session gained 0.58% to $1.71.
Plug Power Inc. (PLUG), a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, has declared Prelodis as its recent European GenDrive customer. Plug Power has fully shipped and commissioned units for Prelodis to use at its new-construction (greenfield) logistics facility located in Saint Cry en Val, a community close to Orleans in north-central France. This center is operated by Prelocentre, a partner of Prelodis, and runs three shifts of operation.
The GenDrive units at Prelocentre have been operational since August 31, 2015 in the 20,000 sq ft. retail food warehouse. Additionally, a 33,000 sq. ft. extension has been planned and offers an opportunity for onsite expansion of the GenDrive-powered lift truck fleet.
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. It focuses on proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and fuel processing technologies, and fuel cell/battery hybrid technologies.
Finally, Willbros Group Inc (NYSE:WG), decreased -2.53%, to $1.54.
Willbros Group, Inc. (WG) declared that the Company will be attending D.A. Davidson’s 14th Annual Engineering & Construction Conference to be held in San Francisco on September 10 – 11, 2015.
Michael J. Fournier, President and Chief Operating Officer, is planned to present on Friday, September 11th at 9:15 a.m. Pacific Time (11:15 a.m. Central Time). A live broadcast of the presentation and the accompanying slides will be accessible in the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.willbros.com.
Willbros Group, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as an energy infrastructure contractor serving the oil, gas, refining, petrochemical, and power industries in the United States and internationally. It provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC); and turnarounds, maintenance, facilities development, and operations services. The company operates through four segments: Oil & Gas, Professional Services, Utility T&D, and Canada. The Oil & Gas segment offers construction, project administration, maintenance, and lifecycle extension services to the upstream, midstream, and downstream markets.
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