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Active Stocks in the News: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), Starz (NASDAQ:STRZA)

On Wednesday, Shares of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), lost -1.00% to $37.44.

The NASDAQ Private Market, LLC and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM), declared a joint initiative to make available wealth administration education and services to employees and participants in private company liquidity programs.

Wealth Management services will be offered by MSWM’s Palo Alto Group, led by Mark Curtis and Karen McDonald, a leading financial advisor team focused on the reinvestment of liquidation proceeds from employee stock plans. The Palo Alto Group will work with founders and employees who seek wealth administration services following their participation in a liquidity program on the NASDAQ Private Market platform.

NASDAQ Private Market offers a range of solutions to assist private companies enable their founders, employees and other shareholders to sell a portion of their shares in a company-controlled program.

Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. The company’s Institutional Securities segment offers financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, leveraged buyouts, takeover defenses, and shareholder relations, in addition to provides capital raising and corporate lending services.

Shares of Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), declined -1.16% to $7.66, during its last trading session.

Atmel Corporation, declared the company has expanded its popular family of secure, ARM Cortex M0+-based MCUs with the SAM L22 series. The Atmel | SMART SAM L series is the highest scoring product family in the EEMBC ULPBench, the leading independent low-power benchmark. The new devices offer an ultra-low power capacitive touch with a segment LCD controller that can deliver up to 320 segments, making the devices ideal for low-power applications counting thermostats, electric/gas/water meters, home control, medical and access systems.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving connectivity in various battery-powered devices making security and ultra-low power critical features in these devices. The SAM L22 series delivers advanced security features with 256-bit AES, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), true random number generator, Flash protection and tamper detection to ensure information is securely stored, delivered and accessible. To get the lowest possible power consumption, the devices use Atmel’s proprietary picoPower technologies and smart low-power peripherals that work independently of the CPU in sleep modes.

In addition to segment LCD supporting up to eight communication lines, capacitive touch sensing and built-in security measures, the SAM L22 series features up to 256kB of Flash and 32KB of SRAM, crystal less USB device, programmable Serial Communication modules (SERCOM) and Atmel’s patented Event System and Sleepwalking™ technologies.

Atmel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor integrated circuit products primarily in the United States, Asia, Europe, South Africa, and Central and South America. It operates in four segments: Microcontroller, Nonvolatile Memory, Automotive, and Multi-Market and Other.

Finally, Starz (NASDAQ:STRZA), ended its last trade with 0.73% gain, and closed at $ 38.52.

Ray Milius, Executive Vice President of Programming Operations for Starz, declared the promotion of Judy Batenburg to Senior Vice President, IT Services and Vince Hostak to Senior Vice President, Post-Production.

Based in the company’s Colorado headquarters, Batenburg is responsible for IT Services, which comprises the web infrastructure and computing services, counting internal and cloud hosting. She also oversees IT Solutions Engineering, Client Engineering & Operations, Desktop architecture and engineering, and Technology Procurement.

Batenburg, who most recently served as Vice President of IT Services for Starz preceding to her promotion, was honored as a ComputerWorld Premier 100 IT Leader in 2013, and has presented numerous industry presentations on transforming IT organizations, managing global infrastructures and BYOD. She is presently Co-Chair of the Society for Information Administration (SIM) Women group and formerly served as Co-Chair of the Colorado Technology Association’s Women in Technology group.

Preceding to joining Starz in 2007, Batenburg served as IT director at IHS, overseeing global operations, assist desk, infrastructure and IT program administration. Her career began at AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, where she oversaw the development and deployment of Lucent’s global network and system administration environment.

Starz, through its auxiliaries, operates as a media and entertainment company. It operates through Starz Networks, Starz Distribution, and Starz Animation segments. The Starz Networks segment provides premium subscription video programming to U.S. multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), counting cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies.

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