On Wednesday, VeriFone Systems Inc(NYSE:PAY)’s shares declined -1.09% to $26.81.
Taxi passengers in Philadelphia will be able to electronically hail cabs starting in October, using the Way2ride app from Verifone (PAY) on their mobile devices. Through this expansion, Philadelphia joins New York City, where passengers are already using Way2ride’s payment and new e-hailing feature to quickly and easily hail cabs and securely pay for taxi rides with a tap of their smartphones.
More than 1,400 of the 1,600 licensed taxis in Philadelphia are already equipped with Verifone payment systems for credit card acceptance and are ready for Way2ride. Way2ride™ is accessible recently for both iPhones® and Android® phones and can be downloaded right now from the Apple® App Store® and Google® Play®. The Way2ride app has been downloaded more than 45,000 times in Philadelphia since it became accessible in the city a year ago.
VeriFone Systems, Inc. designs, markets, and services electronic payment solutions at the point of sale (POS) worldwide. It provides countertop electronic payment systems that accept card payment options, such as NFC, mobile wallets, chip and PIN, and contactless payments, in addition to support credit and debit card, EBT, EMV, and other PIN-based transactions; and a portfolio of application libraries and development tools.
Baxalta Inc (NYSE:BXLT)’s shares dropped -1.53% to $34.59.
Baxalta Incorporated (BXLT), a global biopharmaceutical leader dedicated to delivering transformative therapies to patients with orphan diseases and underserved conditions, recently declared that it has presented an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of an investigational 20 percent concentration immunoglobulin subcutaneous (IGSC, 20%) treatment for patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PI, a group of disorders in which part of the body’s immune system is missing or does not function properly.
The U.S. filing is based on positive results of a Phase 2/3 study of IGSC, 20% in North American patients at least two years old with PI. In the study, IGSC, 20% met the primary endpoint as measured by the rate of acute serious bacterial infections (ASBIs). A single ASBI was stated with IGSC 20 percent treatment, equating to 0.012 ASBI/patient-year (p<0.0001, contrast with the reference threshold of one ASBI/patient-year). The rate of all infections was 2.41/patient-year.
Nearly all infusions (99.8 percent) were accomplished without a reduction, interruption, or discontinuation for tolerability reasons and 84.9 percent of infusions were administered using ≤ 2 infusion sites. The rate of local adverse reactions (ARs) to IGSC, 20% was 0.022/ infusion. All (100 percent) of the local ARs were either mild (92.5 percent) or moderate (7.5 percent) in severity. The most common ARs were local adverse reactions, systemic adverse reactions counting headache, nausea, fatigue, diarrhea, and vomiting. The complete data will be presented at an forthcoming medical congress.
Baxalta Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company, develops, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of products primarily for the treatment of hematology and immunology worldwide. It also offers other therapies for the treatments of bleeding disorders, and chronic and acute medical conditions, counting hemophilia A, hemophilia B, attained hemophilia, inhibitor treatments, primary immunodeficiency (PID), and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Ocwen Financial Corp (NYSE:OCN)‘s shares dipped -0.29% to $6.87.
Ocwen Financial Corporation (OCN) declared that its President and CEO, Ron Faris, was presented with the Community Champion Award from HomeFree-USA, a prominent counseling agency and homeownership development organization. The award, presented at HomeFree-USA’s Leadership and Training Conference, recognized Mr. Faris for his vision and innovation in servicing challenging mortgage portfolios in addition to his personal commitment to keep families in their homes whenever possible.
Ocwen has a long history of working closely with non-profit housing counseling organizations in an effort to reach borrowers who are struggling to make their mortgage payments. HomeFree-USA has an established relationship with Ocwen and has assisted thousands of families avoid foreclosure through their network of loss-mitigation counselors. HomeFree-USA is also a member of Ocwen’s Community Advisory Council, a diverse 17-member group of national, regional, and local non-profit housing counseling, community development, and civil rights organizations from across the country.
Ocwen Financial Corporation, a financial services holding company, engages in servicing and origination of mortgage loans in the United States. Its Servicing segment provides residential and commercial mortgage loan servicing, special servicing, and asset administration services to owners of mortgage loans and foreclosed real estate. This segments residential servicing portfolio comprises conventional, government insured, and non-agency loans.
Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE:BBY), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with -0.46% loss, and closed at $36.85.
Best Buy Co., Inc. declared the appointment of Karen McLoughlin to its Board of Directors. McLoughlin is the chief financial officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH), a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of information technology, business process and consulting services.
McLoughlin, 50, joined Cognizant in 2003 and has spearheaded several critical transformation initiatives during her time with the company. She has been the chief financial officer since 2012, overseeing the company’s worldwide accounting and controllership, enterprise risk administration, financial planning and analysis, internal audit, investor relations, tax and treasury functions.
Best Buy Co., Inc. operates as a retailer of technology products, services, and solutions in the United States and internationally. Its stores offer consumer electronics comprising primarily of television and home theaters; digital cameras and camcorders; DVD and Blu-ray players; portable electronics, such as MP3 devices, headphones and speakers, car stereo, navigation and satellite radio; and related accessories.
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