On Tuesday, Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), lost -7.62% to $40.98.
Yahoo, is advancing digital accessibility by captioning thousands of videos every month, which can be viewed on the company’s websites and through the Yahoo Screen mobile app for iOS and Android.
Yahoo now offers captions on videos from a variety of partners, counting: The New York Times, the Associated Press on Yahoo News, Reuters, CNBC and many others. Yahoo also provides captioned movie trailers, a service long-desired by deaf and hard-of-hearing moviegoers.
Yahoo continues to provide captioned versions of every Saturday Night Live episode in the show’s 40-year history. Yahoo also delivers captions for its own original series and programs, counting Community, Sin City Saints, Other Space, Yahoo News with Katie Couric, many Yahoo Finance videos, tech reports from Yahoo Tech Editor-in-Chief David Pogue, TV in No Time, Trending Now and many more.
Users can watch these shows anytime, anywhere by using the Yahoo Screen app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, TiVo, Xbox 360 and the Yahoo Screen web site. Captions are easily accessed by clicking the CC symbol in the video player control bar or turning captions on in the mobile device’s settings menu.
Yahoo! Inc. provides search and display advertising services on Yahoo properties and associate sites worldwide. The company offers Yahoo Search that serves as a starting point to navigate the Internet and discover information; and Yahoo Answers, which enables users to seek, discover, and share knowledge and opinions across mobile phones, tablets, and desktops.
Shares of Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), declined -0.48% to $8.32, during its last trading session, hitting its lowest level, after the voice and data network communications service provider had its price target lowered to $7.50 from $7.75 by analysts at Goldman Sachs recently.
The price target represents a potential 12% downside from the stock’s current trading price.
The company decided on a downgrade due to a valuation that compriseed of “50/50 blend of two methods: dividend yield (7.5 percent) and 2016E EV/EBITDA (4.3x). The target multiples are based on peer/historical trading levels.”
Windstream Holdings, Inc. provides communications and technology solutions in the United States. It offers managed services and cloud computing services to businesses, in addition to broadband, voice, and video services to consumers primarily in rural markets.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Shares of Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), gained 0.38% to $34.62.
Summer is just around the corner and ComEd’s workforce and systems are ready for the demands of the warmer temperatures ahead. Through its smart grid program and storm- hardening project, ComEd has continued to invest in upgrading its delivery system and improving its safety and reliability. This work comprises upgrading substation equipment, installing new transmission wires, poles and smart meters, and inspecting circuits and equipment.
In its annual summer readiness presentation to the Illinois Commerce Commission, ComEd noted the benefits of its investments in smart grid and smart meter technology, in addition to ongoing storm-hardening work, which have reduced the frequency and duration of power outages. In addition, ComEd’s storm restoration has improved by 30 percent since 2011.
As part of the its summer preparedness program, the company also conducts emergency response drills that comprise employees from all areas, testing of computer and emergency systems and reviewing emergency and storm processes and procedures.
Additionally, the utility is engaged with other utilities, state agencies and companies to share best practices for storm response. On May 21 and 22, ComEd and the Edison Electric Institute will co-host an annual storm symposium with leaders from 15 utilities from around the country discussing best practices. On June 19, ComEd will host its second statewide emergency drill with utilities, state agencies and companies working together to understand how to get critical services back following a major weather disaster.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (EXC), the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with about 7.8 million customers. ComEd provides service to about 3.8 million customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population.
Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the energy generation and delivery businesses in the United States. It owns electric generating facilities, such as nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities, in addition to wind and solar photovoltaic facilities.
Finally, Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX), ended its last trade with -0.94% loss, and closed at $43.36.
Rackspace Hosting, declared that Karl Pichler, chief financial officer, will present at the following conferences:
- The J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Tuesday, May 19 at 4:10pm ET in Boston, MA.
- The Cowen and Company Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday, May 27 at 3:30pm ET in New York, NY.
Rackspace Hosting, Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides cloud computing services and managing Web-based IT systems for small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises worldwide. The company’s service offering combines hosting on dedicated hardware and on multi-tenant pools of virtualized hardware in a way that suits each customers requirements.
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