On Thursday, Shares of Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR), surged 1.42% to $52.03.
IBM and Twitter declared a partnership late last year, and now Big Blue’s artificial intelligence system is using the social media company’s massive amount of public data to learn about your behavior and personality. IBD spoke with IBM Watson’s VP of Emerging Technology about its Personality Insights service, which can assist businesses tailor communications with different types of consumers.
On other hand, TWTR has ensured that one do not need a Twitter account anymore to see public tweets. It has redesigned the homepage so as to make public tweets accessible to non-members. The new homepage was recently launched on desktops in the U.S.
According to a company blog post, instead of the sign-up prompt, the new homepage will greet visitors with categories like Entertainment, News, Technology and Science, Sports, Lifestyle and more. By clicking on a topic, they will be able to see related tweets from well-liked accounts without logging in. This is likely to assist millions of non-account holder visitors to experience what Twitter has on offer.
During the fourth-quarter 2014 conference call, Twitter stated that about 288 million account holders visit the social network site at least once every month. Moreover, it attracts over 500 million logged-out visitors per month.
Twitter, Inc. operates as a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. It offers various products and services for users, counting Twitter that allows users to create, distribute, and discover content; and Vine and video, a mobile application that enables users to create and distribute short looping videos.
Shares of Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW), gained 1.39% to $22.64, during the last trading session on Thursday.
Corning, declared a collaborative contract with OLEDWorks to develop unique, flexible, and conformable OLED lighting solutions using Corning® Willow® Glass as an integrated substrate.
These lighting panels will be used in architectural lighting and luminaries and are predictable to provide two times the light output of traditional OLED lighting panels, enabling raised efficiency and lower power consumption.
A key component in these new lighting solutions is Willow Glass, an excellent, thin, and flexible hermetic barrier and substrate. Willow Glass assists protect sensitive internal components from damaging moisture and oxygen while also acting as a structural material. This makes it an excellent choice for encapsulating the organic light emitting materials.
Corning Incorporated manufactures and sells specialty glasses, ceramics, and related materials worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Display Technologies, Optical Communications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Shares of FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), gained 1.38% to $2.20.
FXCM, declared certain key operating metrics for March 2015 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business.
Monthly activities comprised of:
March 2015 Retail Trading Metrics:
- Retail customer trading volume of $375 billion in March 2015, 40% higher than February 2015 and 29% higher than March 2014. Volume from indirect sources was 36% of total retail volume in the first quarter 2015. Retail customer trading volume (1) for the first quarter 2015 was $1.1 trillion, 20% lower than the fourth quarter 2014, and 17% higher than the first quarter 2014.
- Average retail customer trading volume per day of $17.1 billion in March 2015, 29% higher than February 2015 and 24% higher than March 2014.
- An average of 591,122 retail client trades per day in March 2015, 15% higher than February 2015 and 38% higher than March 2014.
- Tradable accounts of 222,279 as of March 31, 2015, a decrease of 440 accounts, or 0.2% from February 2015, and an raise of 33,016 accounts, or 17%, from March 2014.
March 2015 Institutional Trading Metrics:
- Institutional customer trading volume of $248 billion in March 2015, 53% higher than February 2015 and 24% higher than March 2014.
- Average institutional trading volume per day of $11.3 billion in March 2015, 40% higher than February 2015 and 19% higher than March 2014.
- An average of 53,827 institutional client trades per day in March 2015, 72% higher than February 2015 and 43% higher than March 2014.
FXCM Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides online foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services to retail and institutional customers worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Retail Trading and Institutional Trading.
Finally, Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CIE), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 1.31% gain, and closed at $10.84.
Cobalt International Energy, declared that it will release its first quarter 2015 results before the New York Stock Exchange opens on Tuesday, May 5, 2015. This release will be followed by a conference call for investors at 10:00 a.m. Central Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to talk about Cobalt’s first quarter 2015 results. Hosting the call will be Joseph H. Bryant, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and John P. Wilkirson, Chief Financial Officer.
Cobalt International Energy, Inc., through its auxiliaries, engages in the exploration and production of oil-focused, below-salt exploration prospects. Its project portfolio comprises North Platte, Heidelberg, Shenandoah, and Anchor discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico; Cameia, Lontra, Mavinga, Bicuar, and Orca in the offshore Angola; and Diaman in the offshore Gabon.
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