On Tuesday, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE:HOT)’s shares declined -0.16% to $82.70.
The Westin Chicago River North, owned by Host Hotels & Resorts, recently declared it has accomplished an extensive renovation that resulted in the transformation of its 429 guestrooms and 20th floor Executive Club Lounge. Operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (HOT), The Westin Chicago River North finished the three-month project in early March as part of the Westin brand’s efforts to continuously refresh its rapidly growing global portfolio, which topped 200 hotels in 2014.
The Westin Chicago River North is one of the brand’s first hotels to offer the new Westin Generation IV room design, which creates a modern-day oasis from the rigors of travel with a soothing color palate and a variety of natural design touches. In addition to spectacular city views, the guest rooms and suites boast fresh new carpeting and wallpaper; photography that captures the essence of Chicago; more flexible, adaptive furniture for better flow; and the world-renowned Westin Heavenly® Bed – with lush sheets, down cushioning and a patented pillow-top mattress which cradles and contours to the body for complete comfort. In the hotel’s renovated bathrooms, guests will enjoy the Heavenly® Bath, improved with the brand’s Heavenly® Shower, Heavenly® Robe and White Tea Aloe bath amenities. Additional amenities comprise in-room, high-speed Internet access and 42” flat screen televisions.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as a hotel and leisure company worldwide. The company owns, operates, and franchises luxury and upscale full-service hotels, resorts, residences, retreats, select-service hotels, and extended stay hotels under the St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le Méridien, Sheraton, Four Points, Aloft, and Element brand names.
Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ:INFN)’s shares dropped -2.77% to $22.10.
Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, declared the expansion of the Cloud Xpress family of metro Cloud platforms. This release adds a new Cloud Xpress platform with 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) client services in the same compact form factor together with improved functionality. The Cloud Xpress family is designed specifically to address the needs of Cloud service providers, Internet content providers, Internet Exchange service providers, large enterprises and other large-scale datacenter operators.
The Cloud Xpress family, which first started shipping in December 2014, leverages the oPIC-500 optical engine, Infinera’s unique metro-optimized photonic integrated circuit, to deliver DWDM datacenter interconnect services up to 500 gigabits per second (Gb/s) in a compact two rack unit chassis. The new Cloud Xpress with 100 GbE extends the hyper-scale density, simplified operations and low power of the existing Cloud Xpress family that operators can use to easily deploy and scale their networks. With the addition of the new platform, the Cloud Xpress family now supports 10 GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE client-side interfaces to match customer specific requirements.
Infinera Corporation provides optical transport networking equipment, software, and services for telecommunications service providers, Internet content providers, cable operators, wholesale and enterprise carriers, research and education institutions, and government entities worldwide. The company offers long-haul and subsea network products, counting Infinera DTN platform, which is based on photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology to enable digital processing and administration of data to generate wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) wavelengths, in addition to to add, drop, switch, manage, protect, and restore network traffic digitally using integrated optical transport network switching; and Infinera DTN-X platform, a multi-terabit packet optical transport platform that enables service providers to manage the traffic of video, mobile, and cloud-based services, in addition to for submarine network applications.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc (NYSE:NSM)‘s shares dipped -0.54% to $18.48.
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE:AMTD), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with 0.64% gain, and closed at $38.03.
To assist independent registered investment advisors (“RIAs”) keep pace in an era of accelerating technology change, TD Ameritrade Institutional1 has pursued a unique strategy of collaboration, harnessing the innovative and cutting-edge work of an entire community of technology leaders through its Veo Open Access vendor network.
To encourage further partnership and innovation, TD Ameritrade Institutional declares its second-annual Veo® Integrated Awards, recognizing technology companies that are maximizing the capabilities of TD Ameritrade’s Veo Open AccessSM platform and delivering solutions that assist independent RIAs run more productive and efficient businesses. This year’s winners are:
- Innovation Award: Jemstep(Online Advice Solutions)
- Advisor Satisfaction Award: MoneyGuidePro (Financial Planning)
- Newcomer of the Year Award: Advyzon(Portfolio Administration)
The Innovation Award winner was based on several criteria, counting the depth of a product’s integration with Veo, integration with other third-party applications and the scope of adoption by advisors. The Newcomer of the Year Award recognized the firm that achieved the highest levels of integration and went live on Veo in 2014. The winners of these two awards were chosen by a committee of TD Ameritrade Institutional associates, whose methodology was reviewed by Joel Bruckenstein, CFP®, an industry consultant, columnist and co-founder of Technology Tools for Recently.
TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation provides securities brokerage services and related technology-based financial services to retail investors, traders, and independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) in the United States. Its products and services comprise tdameritrade.com, a Web platform for self-directed retail investors; Trade Architect, a Web-based platform that enables active investors and traders identify opportunities and stay informed; thinkorswim, a desktop platform for trading; and TD Ameritrade Mobile, which allows on-the-go investors and traders to trade and monitor accounts from Web-enabled mobile devices.
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