On Wednesday, Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE:RHI)’s shares inclined 2.68% to $51.78.
Named to the 2015 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Protiviti is a wholly owned partner of Robert Half (RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index.
Global consulting firm Protiviti is happy to declare that it has been named the Americas winner in the Fourth Annual Nintex Partner Awards within the Business Excellence category. Protiviti was recognized for promoting the value of Nintex’s Workflow Automation Platform and driving customer success across Nintex products.
Through Protiviti’s experience in planning, designing, configuring and deploying SharePoint, it is able to work through multiple scenarios, counting public websites, intranets, extranets, member communications, mobile sites and business intelligence dashboards. Protiviti also offers Nintex training on both Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms as part of its SharePoint practice. These training courses are designed to assist organizations better automate business workflows and develop new forms based on the unique needs of their businesses.
Robert Half International Inc. provides staffing and risk consulting services in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It operates through three segments: Temporary and Consultant Staffing, Permanent Placement Staffing, and Risk Consulting and Internal Audit Services.
Intrexon Corp (NYSE:XON)’s shares gained 3.92% to $44.27.
Intrexon Corporation (XON) declared that it has reached a partnership with an investment fund sponsored by Harvest Capital Strategies, LLC. The fund is believed to be the world’s first that is dedicated to the inventions and discoveries of a single company.
Intrexon has agreed to provide the fund a noteworthy number of investment proposals from across five sectors – Health, Energy, Food, Environment and Consumer – that are suitable for pursuit by a startup, counting several in 2015. With respect to such proposals, Intrexon will provide the fund with exclusive rights of first-look and first negotiation. Intrexon presently sees the potential to form up to ten new companies per year, each of which will have access to Intrexon’s proprietary technology platform through an Exclusive Channel Collaboration. Although the partnership with the fund will be complimentary to programs already underway at Intrexon, nothing in the arrangement will limit the Company’s ability to execute other collaborations and joint ventures.
Intrexon Corporation, a biotechnology company, operates in the synthetic biology field in the United States. The company, through a suite of proprietary and complementary technologies, designs, builds, and regulates gene programs, which are DNA sequences that comprise of key genetic components. Its technologies comprise UltraVector gene design and fabrication platform, and its associated library of modular DNA components; cell systems informatics; RheoSwitch inducible gene switch; AttSite Recombinases; protein engineering; mAbLogix; and laser-enabled analysis and processing. Intrexon Corporation has partnership agreements with ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc.; Synthetic Biologics, Inc.; Oragenics, Inc.; Fibrocell Science, Inc.; Genopaver, LLC; AquaBounty Technologies, Inc.; S & I Ophthalmic, LLC; Biological & Popular Culture, Inc.; OvaXon, LLC; Intrexon Energy Partners, LLC; and Persea Bio, LLC; and planned partnershipand licensing agreement with Merck Serono S.A. The company was formerly known as Genomatix Ltd. and changed its name to Intrexon Corporation in 2005. Intrexon Corporation was founded in 1998 and is based in Germantown, Maryland.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, PolyOne Corporation (NYSE:POL)‘s shares surged 0.03% to $30.89.
PolyOne Corporation (POL) stated its second quarter results for 2015. Adjusted earnings per share raised to an all-time quarterly high of $0.57, up 12% from $0.51 in the second quarter of 2014. GAAP earnings per share of $0.74 in the second quarter of 2015 raised from $0.33 in the second quarter of 2014. Special items for the second quarter of 2015 comprised of a tax benefit and realignment charges, which resulted in a net after-tax gain of $15.9 million, or $0.17 per share (see Attachment 1).
Revenue for the second quarter of 2015 was $887 million, contrast to $1.0 billion in the second quarter of 2014. The decline resulted from unfavorable foreign exchange, lower selling prices in Distribution and Performance Products & Solutions as a result of lower hydrocarbon based raw material costs, and the ongoing integration of legacy Spartech business.
PolyOne Corporation provides specialized polymer materials, services, and solutions with operations in specialty polymer formulations, color and additive systems, plastic sheet and packaging solutions, and polymer distribution. The company’s Global Specialty Engineered Materials segment offers specialty polymer formulations, services, and solutions for designers, assemblers, and processors of thermoplastic materials. Its Global Color, Additives and Inks segment provides specialized color and additive concentrates for thermoplastics; and dispersions for thermosets, in addition to specialty inks, plastisols, and vinyl slush molding solutions.
SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with 1.33% gain, and closed at $36.22.
SINA Corp (SINA)’s shares have been on an uptrend since the company declared on Jun 1 that it has signed a contract to sell as many as 11 million newly issued shares to Charles Chao, the company’s CEO and Chairman. Since then, shares have gained 11.7% so far.
The shares will be priced at $41.49 each, the average closing trading price of the company’s shares for 30 trading days trailing the agreement on May 29. The total value of the deal comes to about $456 million.
According to the deal, CEO Chao has reached a six-month lockup restriction per which he will not able sell any of these shares for a period of 6 months. This further boosted investors’ confidence in the company.
Growth potential of the e-commerce, e-banking, online payment and online entertainment services markets in China over the long term is a positive for the company. SINA’s micro-blogging platform Weibo has also been gaining immense traction of late. However the company’s core business has been witnessing sluggishness for the past few quarters owing to the ongoing shift from PC to mobile.
SINA Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an online media company in the People’s Republic of China. It operates SINA.com, an online brand advertising portal that provides region-focused format and content, including multimedia news; sporting events news; automobile-related news; business news coverage and personal finance columns; entertainment news and events; technology updates; interactive video products, such as news, sports, entertainment, and education; and education, digital, fashion, eLadies, luxury, health, collectibles, travel, and other interest-based channels.
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