On Wednesday, in the course of current trade, Shares of Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:VOD), gained 2.22%, and is now trading at $37, after the chairman of Liberty Global (LBTYA.O), John Malone, said the two companies would make a “great fit”, reigniting long-running merger speculation.
“We’ve looked at that from our side and there would be very substantial synergies if we could find a way to work together or combine the companies with respect to western Europe,” Malone told Bloomberg in an interview.
“There’s the promise of creating enormous shareholder value if we could work it out,” he said, declining to comment on whether the companies were in talks.
Vodafone Group Plc operates as a telecommunications company worldwide. It offers voice, messaging, data, and fixed broadband services; unified communication solutions; Vodafone One Net, a converged service, which combines fixed and mobile services for various businesses; carrier voice and data products; machine-to-machine connection services; and cloud and hosting services, such as co-location, managed hosting, private and public cloud services, messaging services, and software-as-a-service applications.
Shares of The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA), during its Wednesday’s current trading session fell -0.19%, and is now trading at $146.77.
The Boeing Company, Business Jets (BBJ) declared at the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (EBACE) that Split Scimitar Winglets are now standard on new BBJs.
The BBJ, a business jet based on the Next-Generation 737 family, is the first business jet to offer the Split Scimitar Winglets as a standard feature.
The Split Scimitar Winglets – designed, developed and certified by Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) – also will be offered for retrofit on in-service BBJs by Aviation Partners Inc. (API).
The Split Scimitar Winglet gives the BBJ family up to an additional 2.2 percent of range capability on a 6,000 nautical mile mission, providing customers raised performance and flexibility. The Split Scimitar Winglet takes the existing blended winglet and adds a scimitar tip and downward strake.
The first in-service BBJ to have Split Scimitar Winglets installed is accessible to view at the static airplane display this week at EBACE.
The Boeing Company, together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide.
Finally, Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT), lost -0.54% Wednesday.
Fortinet, declared that it has signed a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With the CRADA in place, Fortinet can now share and gain access to new threat information in order to assist improve threat detection and prevention for users of Fortinet security solutions.
The CRADA will allow Fortinet to take part in the Cyber Information and Sharing and Partnership Program (CISCP), which entails sharing cyber threat, incident, and vulnerability information in near real-time, drawing on data of observed threat activity presented by CISCP participants.
Fortinet intends to also soon take part in the following two Homeland Security programs:
- Improved Cybersecurity Services (ECS) Program: shares sensitive and classified government-vetted cyber threat information with participants, assisting them protect systems from unauthorized access or data exfiltration.
- Cyber Resilience Review (CRR): provides assessments on an organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity capabilities.
Fortinet, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. The company offers FortiGate physical and virtual appliances products that provide various integrated security and networking functions to protect data, applications, and users from network- and content-level security threats; FortiManager product family to manage the system configuration and security functions of multiple FortiGate devices from a centralized console; and the FortiAnalyzer product family, which enables the collection, analysis, and archiving of content and log data generated by its products.
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