On Thursday, Fitbit Inc(NYSE:FIT)’s shares declined -3.91% to $41.34.
Fitbit, Inc., the leader in the connected health and fitness market, recently declared the Fitbit for Windows 10 app, delivering a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit assists users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight and sleep, providing the information they need to more successfully reach their aims. Fitbit users can download the Windows 10 app from the Windows Store to their desktop and tablet. Fitbit for Windows 10 will be able for Windows 10 mobile and Xbox One later this year.
Key features of the new Fitbit for Windows 10 app:
Updated live tiles that have been redesigned with more information and new notification types to let users quickly access their most critical data to better enable them to reach their personalized health and fitness aims.
Quick actions to assist users log and track their health and fitness activities, such as food, water intake and exercise, as well as set alarms more efficiently with the simple click of a button, encouraging more frequent logging.
Cortana® support allows users to speak commands on Windows 10 tablets, PCs and mobile phones – such as “Fitbit, I ate chicken for dinner” or “Fitbit, I went for a three-mile run” – for automatic and easier food and activity logging.
Fitbit Inc. manufactures and provides wearable fitness-tracking devices worldwide. The company makes both wrist bands and clippable devices that monitor a users fitness activity by tracking the calories burned or distance covered. It manufactures and markets products that track people’s health and fitness activities, counting Fitbit Zip, a wireless tracker that allows users to track daily activity statistics, such as steps, distance, calories burned, and active minutes; Fitbit One, a clippable wireless tracker, which tracks stairs climbed and sleep; Fitbit Flex, a wristband-style tracker that tracks steps, distance, calories burned, active minutes, and sleep; and Fitbit Charge, a wireless activity and sleep wristband, which tracks steps, distance, calories burned, active minutes, floors climbed, and sleep.
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW)’s shares gained 0.08% to $12.74.
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (MPW) declared that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Capella Holdings, Inc. (“Capella”), a privately-owned hospital company headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. Capella is one of the ten largest for-profit acute care hospital operators in the U.S. based on revenue. The $900 million total value of the transactions will be comprised of a $600 million investment in Capella’s real estate and an approximate $300 million investment in Capella’s operating entities, which is predictable to be owned jointly by MPT and Capella administration. The transaction will be right away accretive to MPT’s Normalized FFO (“FFO”) per share by $0.04 in the first year after closing.
MPT and Capella’s senior administration have agreed subject to execution of definitive documentation, to form a joint venture (“JV”) that will become the acquirer of Capella’s operating entities for a total consideration of about $300 million, counting a loan or other investment by MPT of about $290 million that will earn a fixed coupon in line with our initial lease rate. In addition, the JV agreement will provide for distributions to MPT that are predictable to result in additional returns under certain conditions. No such anticipated additional returns are comprised of in the estimated initial year accretion of $0.04 per share.
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It acquires, develops, and invests in healthcare facilities; and leases healthcare facilities to healthcare operating companies and healthcare providers. The company also provides mortgage loans to healthcare operators, in addition to working capital and other term loans to its tenants/borrowers.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI)‘s shares dipped -21.48% to $0.110.
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. ( ASTI), a developer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, integrated into the Company’s EnerPlex™ series of consumer products, stated results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2015.
Q2 & H1-2015 Financial Results
Total revenue for the second quarter of 2015 was $2.2M, up about 105% from the same period last year. Loss from Operations in the quarter was ($6.9M), an improvement of about $1M or 12.6% from ($7.9M) in the same period last year.
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a development stage company, designs and manufactures photovoltaic integrated consumer electronics; and portable power applications for commercial and military users. The company offers Surfr, a battery and a solar case for the Apple iPhone 4/4S smart phone, in addition to for the Samsung Galaxy S III smart phone; EnerPlex Kickr, a portable solar charging device; and EnerPlex Jumpr, a portable power bank.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp(NASDAQ:CTSH), ended its Thursday’s trading session with -1.98% loss, and closed at $65.70.
Cognizant (CTSH) declared that the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), a consortium of regional payers and providers in the Northeast U.S., has selected Cognizant and its partner TriZetto to digitally transform and manage its technology infrastructure to foster seamless partnershipacross member organizations, optimize costs, and improve efficiency and patient care.
As part of a multi-year agreement, Cognizant will combine its consulting, IT and business process as-a-service capabilities with TriZetto’s technology products to enable NEHEN’s health information exchange to process more than 8 million transactions every month. By simplifying technology deployment and adoption and implementing Cognizant and TriZetto’s innovative solutions, NEHEN will be able to accelerate its mission of assisting members streamline operations and change the way healthcare is delivered and reimbursed.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation provides information technology (IT), consulting, and business process services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing/Retail/Logistics, and Other. Its consulting and technology services comprise IT strategy consulting, program administration consulting, operations improvement consulting, strategy consulting, and business consulting services; and application design and development, systems integration, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship administration implementation services.
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