On Friday, Shares of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), gained 0.62% to $145.30.
International Business Machines Corp., expanded the industry’s largest and most diverse set of cognitive APIs, technologies and tools for developers who are creating products, services and applications embedded with Watson.
The declarement was made by IBM during its forum on cognitive computing and Artificial Intelligence, where the company declared a new Watson location in San Francisco. IBM also previewed new platform innovations and research projects that will extend its industry-leading cognitive portfolio.
New capabilities, offered through the Watson Developer Cloud, comprise advanced language, speech, and vision services, and developer tools.
International Business Machines Corporation provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. The company’s Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, such as outsourcing, processing, integrated technology, cloud, and technology support.
Shares of Fitbit Inc (NYSE:FIT), declined -3.07% to $37.60, during its last trading session.
Fitbit, Inc., declared that it supports HIPAA compliance, enabling Fitbit Wellness to more effectively integrate with HIPAA-covered entities, counting corporate wellness partners, health plans and self-insured employers. The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the primary U.S. law governing the security and privacy of personal health information used by health insurance plans and other covered entities.
“We precedingitize protecting our consumers’ privacy and keeping their data secure,” said James Park, CEO and Co-Founder, Fitbit. “Our compliance with HIPAA safeguards formalizes this commitment, and, more importantly, it creates opportunities for more effective relationships with corporate wellness customers.”
Fitbit Inc. manufactures and provides wearable fitness-tracking devices worldwide. The company makes both wrist bands and clippable devices that monitor a user’s fitness activity by tracking the calories burned or distance covered.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), lost -6.70% to $175.66.
Illumina, declared it has joined the Worldwide Innovative Networking (WIN) Consortium. Founded on the recognition that greater success can be achieved through partnershipthan any organization can achieve alone, the WIN Consortium is a global network of leading academic, industry, insurance and non-profit research organizations working to make personalized cancer care a reality for patients worldwide.
“We are very happy to welcome Illumina to WIN,” said Dr. John Mendelsohn, Chairman of the WIN Consortium and the Director of the Khalifa Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy at MD Anderson Cancer Center. “Their expertise will be invaluable as we work to accelerate the pace and reduce the cost of translating novel cancer treatments to the bedside by developing and applying, through worldwide clinical trials, the most promising advances in genomic-based cancer research.”
Illumina, Inc. provides sequencing and array-based solutions for genetic analysis in North America, Europe, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and South Africa. The companys products comprise sequencing platforms that are based on its SBS technology, which provides researchers with various ranges of applications and the ability to sequence mammalian genomes; and array platforms comprise of HiScan and iScan systems, in addition to NextSeq 550 system that are array scanners for DNA and RNA analysis applications, counting single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, copy number variations analysis, gene expression analysis, and methylation analysis.
Finally, Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), ended its last trade with -1.00% loss, and closed at $6.95.
Windstream, declared the Smart Tomorrow Start-up Challenge, a $40,000 entrepreneurship contest for high school students in Lincoln, NE, Lexington, KY and Sugar Land, TX. Divided into local and final rounds, the competition challenges students to design a start-up business offering a product or service that can improve our communities and the way we live.
“Entrepreneurship recently knows no age limit, and young people are more inspired than ever when it comes to reimagining the way we live,” said Sarah Day, Senior Vice President of Small Business and Consumer at Windstream. “As part of Windstream’s commitment to technology and education, we wanted to give students a creative outlet and the opportunity to experience what it’s like to walk in the shoes of an entrepreneur and bring a start-up to life.”
High school students in Lincoln, Lexington and Sugar Land may enter the Smart Tomorrow contest individually or in teams of two. The contest is divided into two parts to determine local finalists and the overall winner. For the local round, students will provide an overview of their start-up idea using WordPress, a free, user-friendly website platform to explain the company’s mission, how it operates, its founders and more.
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. The companys primary business service offerings comprise integrated voice and data services, multi-site networking, data center services, managed services, high-speed Internet, and voice services.
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