On Wednesday, Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ:SGMS)’s shares gained 3.89%, and closed at $11.75, as on April 1, Scientific Games declared that Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa, the operator of the Portuguese State Lottery, stated record instant game sales in 2014, a year-over-year raise of 18 percent. The trend has continued in 2015 with instant game sales exhibiting an unprecedented year-over-year raise of more than 35 percent thus far.
Corporation signed a two-year contract in February 2014 to provide instant games and related services to SCML. The services offered comprise game planning, design and production, in addition to sales, marketing and consulting services. Under the contract, which was awarded following a competitive procurement process, Scientific Games became the sole supplier of the Lottery’s instant games.
Scientific Games Corporation develops technology-based products and services, and associated content for the gaming and lottery industries worldwide. The corporation operates through three segments: Gaming, Lottery, and Interactive.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA)’s shares jumped 3.87%, and settled at $85.39, during the last trading session on Wednesday, after Alibaba.com, the leading platform for global wholesale trade owned by Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), declared that it has collaborated with leading ecommerce platform Bigcommerce to deliver an integrated shopping experience for sourcing products from Alibaba.com’s extensive network of Chinese wholesale suppliers. The Alibaba.com Wholesale solution is right away accessible to Bigcommerce’s 70,000 stores, and online merchants can now access and purchase a collection of more than 30,000 products from about 300 of Alibaba.com’s Gold Suppliers in China with scope to expand to over three million products from thousands of Gold Suppliers.
Every day millions of buyers and sellers utilize the Alibaba.com platform. For the first time, online merchants buying from Alibaba.com will have a seamless experience to access wholesale suppliers in China as an integrated component of an ecommerce platform. Jointly developed by Alibaba.com and Bigcommerce, the custom-built application provides a unique catalog of wholesale suppliers in a secure and familiar interface so merchants can quickly find and select new products to sell online.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its auxiliaries, operates as an online and mobile commerce corporation in the People’s Republic of China and internationally. It operates Taobao Marketplace, an online shopping destination; Tmall, a third-party platform for brands and retailers; Juhuasuan, a group buying marketplace; Alibaba.com, an online business-to-business marketplace that focuses on global trade among businesses; 1688.com, an online wholesale marketplace; and AliExpress, a consumer marketplace.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU)’s shares climbed 3.82%, and closed at $19.29, after a passenger carrier corporation, declared its eighth annual “One Thing That’s Green” initiative. JetBlue is partnering with Carbonfund.org Foundation, a leading environmental non-profit organization, to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (CO2e) for all planned flights from April 1 to April 30, 2015. Over the past seven years, JetBlue has partnered with Carbonfund.org Foundation, allowing travelers to offset part of the carbon footprint from their flights by making a donation to support carbon reduction projects. To date, JetBlue has purchased offsets totaling more than 350 million pounds (158,000 metric tons) of CO2 and CO2e emissions.
JetBlue, with the assistance of its customers who voluntarily offset CO2 emissions, assist fund technology and forestry projects designed to assist reduce the environmental influence of aircraft and prevent harmful greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere, all through a process administered by Carbonfund.org. Offsetting all planned flights in April for its customers will allow JetBlue to reduce the carbon influence of 500,000 metric tons of CO2e or 57.1 million gallons of jet fuel. JetBlue will purchase the equivalent offsets which will be used to protect a 400,000 acre rainforest in Brazil. This protection will in turn generate several million carbon offsets over the next few years.
JetBlue Airways Corporation, a passenger carrier corporation, provides air transportation services. As of December 31, 2014, the corporation operated a fleet of 13 Airbus A321 aircrafts, 130 Airbus A320 aircrafts, and 60 EMBRAER 190 aircrafts.
Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with 3.72% gain, and closed at $12.83, as Affymetrix will report operating results for the first quarter of 2015 after market close on Wednesday April 29, 2015. The corporation will hold a conference call on the same day at 5:00pm ET.
A replay of this call will be accessible from 5:00pm PT on April 29, 2015 until 8:00pm PT on May 6, 2015 at the following numbers: 877-660-6853 (domestic), 201-612-7415 (international). Please enter conference identification number 13605903 to access the replay. An archived webcast of the conference call will be accessible under the investor relations section of the corporation’s website at www.affymetrix.com.
Affymetrix, Inc. provides life science products and molecular diagnostic products that enable parallel analysis of biological systems at the gene, protein, and cell level primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The corporation operates in two segments, Affymetrix Core and eBioscience.
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