On Monday, Shares of CMS Energy Corp. (NYSE:CMS), gained 1.59% to $35.05.
CMS Energy, is cheering for Michigan high school students who are heading to the world FIRST Robotics championship – and promoting robotics to the next generation of engineers, scientists and workers in technology-related fields.
Generation Genius represents Consumers Energy’s lasting commitment to inspiring students to explore STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – fields.
The Consumers Energy Foundation contributed $450,000 last year to support STEM programs, counting FIRST teams at middle schools and high schools across the state. With assist from the foundation, FIRST in Michigan added 77 high school robotics teams last year – more than all other states put together. Michigan has 345 teams this year, more school robotics teams than any state. FIRST in Michigan set a aim of having 500 teams by 2018 when Detroit will host the World Championships.
Consumers Energy’s commitment to robotics is about Michigan’s future, attracting and keeping talented individuals to work in the state. Employees also have a hands-on connection to school robotics, coaching and providing assistance to several teams.
CMS Energy Corporation operates as an energy company primarily in Michigan, the United States. The company’s Electric Utility segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, and various industrial customers in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It operates a network of coal, gas, hydroelectric, oil, and wind generation plants.
Shares of Jumei International Holding Limited (NYSE:JMEI), gained 1.59% to $22.36, during its last trading session.
Jumei International Holding, hosted Mr. Dejiang Zhang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Communist Party of China Politburo Standing Committee member, on a site visit to Jumei Global’s government bonded warehouse in Zhengzhou, Henan Province on April 13, 2015.
Mr. Zhang toured the warehouse and met with senior administration. Located in Zhengzhou, one of China’s cross border e-commerce pilot cities, the government bonded warehouse is managed by Jumei and began operations in 2014.
According to Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and China Central Television, Zhengzhou has become China’s largest hub for cross border ecommerce with a total of over 5 million packages shipped during the first quarter of 2015, a noteworthy raise from the less than 500,000 packages shipped during the entire year 2014. Jumei’s bonded warehouse accounted for over 90% of the packages shipped during the first quarter of 2015.
Jumei International Holding Limited operates as an online retailer of beauty products in the People’s Republic of China. The company provides various beauty products, counting cosmetics, skin care and body care products, cosmetic applicators, and fragrance products, in addition to beauty products for men, and baby and children.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), gained 1.59% to $84.60.
Caterpillar, will release first-quarter 2015 financial results at 6:30 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, April 23. The release will be accessible at caterpillar.com/earnings and the full text of the news release will also be accessible on PR Newswire at about 6:30 a.m. Central Time. The news release will be furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) via a Current Report on Form 8-K in compliance with applicable SEC rules.
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide. The company’s Construction Industries segment offers backhoe, small wheel, skid steer, multi-terrain, compact track, medium and compact wheel, and track-type loaders; mini, wheel, and track excavators.
Finally, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL), ended its last trade with 1.56% gain, and closed at $35.22.
CenturyLink, declared the acquisition of Orchestrate, a company that offers a fully managed database service for rapid application development. The acquisition enhances the CenturyLink Cloud platform with new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) capabilities and adds Orchestrate’s practiced data services team to CenturyLink’s Product Development and Technology organization.
With the advance of mobile, real-time and Internet of Things applications, companies need scalable, flexible databases. In many cases, they need more than one database to provide the social, mapping and messaging features users expect. Orchestrate provides multiple flavors of well-tuned, managed NoSQL databases, to save organizations the headaches of running their own instances. Orchestrate provides full-text search, time series, graph and key-value storage through a single, simple API that combines the developer-friendliness and ease of use of NoSQL databases with the reliability of distributed databases.
Orchestrate co-founders Antony Falco, chief executive officer, and Ian Plosker, chief technology officer, in addition to Dave Smith, vice president of engineering, are among those joining CenturyLink.
CenturyLink, Inc. provides various communications services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Business and Consumer.
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