On Monday, Shares of Avis Budget Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CAR), lost -4.80% to $43.00.
Avis Budget Group, declared that Avis Car Rental and Budget Car Rental have once again been selected as Qantas Frequent Flyer’s exclusive points-earning car rental partners. The renewed agreement offers the more than 11 million members of Qantas Frequent Flyer the opportunity to earn more Qantas Points whenever they rent a vehicle with Avis or Budget almost anywhere in the world.
Now, Qantas Frequent Flyer members will earn four Qantas Points for every dollar they spend on time and kilometer charges in Australia, and 700 points per eligible rental outside Australia. Qantas Points can also be redeemed for Avis and Budget rentals within Australia and New Zealand.
“We’re thrilled to renew this agreement to continue to offer Qantas Frequent Flyers the opportunity to both earn and use Qantas Points on car hire,” said Mark Servodidio, president, International, Avis Budget Group. “It will assist us continue to attract new customers and generate incremental reservations from Qantas’ loyal customer base.”
Avis Budget Group, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides car and truck rentals, car sharing, and ancillary services to businesses and consumers worldwide. The company has three segments: North America, International, and Truck Rental.
Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), declined -2.64% to $71.89, during its last trading session.
Caterpillar Inc, will hold a one-hour audio webcast of a teleconference with financial analysts and institutional shareholders on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, at 2 p.m. Central Time.
The webcast is the second in a series featuring Caterpillar executives discussing topics key to the company’s strategy. Kent Adams, president of Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation (Cat Financial) and vice president with responsibility for the Financial Products Division of Caterpillar Inc., will host the webcast. The negotiation will provide an overview of Cat Financial, how it supports the Caterpillar business model and enterprise strategy, how the business is managed and a review of the overall performance of the company.
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide. The company’s Construction Industries segment offers backhoe, small wheel, skid steer, multi-terrain, compact track, medium and compact wheel, and track-type loaders; mini, wheel, and track excavators; track-type tractors; and select work tools, motor graders, tele handlers, soil compactors, and pipelayers, in addition to its related parts for the heavy and general construction, rental, mining and quarry, and aggregates markets.
Finally, Shares of Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN), ended its last trade with -0.73% loss, and closed at $57.21.
Health care diagnostic imaging devices, from customary prenatal care to advanced cardiac imaging equipment, are increasingly predictable to provide more precise images, while also becoming more portable. To meet these demands, Texas Instruments (TI) (TXN) recently introduced the AFE5818 and AFE5816 families, the industry’s first 16-channel ultrasound analog front ends (AFEs). The new AFEs integrate a range of features to maximize image quality and performance while minimizing power consumption and system cost.
To optimize system efficiency, these families offer multiple versions with and without a demodulation block and JESD204B interface option, which further simplifies board layout and provides cost savings. The new families also offer industry-leading low power consumption for the noise performance achieved, enabling portable solutions that offer better imaging performance without negatively impacting the power budget.
Key features and benefits of the AFE5818 and AFE5816 families
- Highest integration: The AFE5818 and AFE5816 families are the industry’s first 16-channel simultaneously sampling AFEs, enabling system-level optimization.
- Minimal power consumption: The AFE5818 and AFE5816 offer power consumption as low as 94 mW and 52 mW per channel, respectively — 33 percent better per channel than the competition.
- JESD204B interface: The AFE58JD18 and AFE58JD16 comprise a 5-Gbps JESD204B serial interface, reducing ultrasound system data I/O routing by as much as 80 percent contrast to other data interface standards and enabling a data rate of up to 6.4 Gbps. This standard interface creates a seamless connection to high-performance processors such as TI’s 66AK2L06 multicore processor.
- Digital time gain compensation (DTGC): The AFE58JD16 and AFE5816 comprise a DTGC engine with 0.125-dB resolution, which reduces noise and power consumption. DTGC also reduces the need for external components, contrast to traditional analog time gain compensation.
- Digital demodulator: The AFE58JD18 and AFE58JD16 also feature an on-chip digital demodulator, which conditions 16 channels of data from RF to a baseband frequency. This reduces the load on the system processing engine to enable lower latency and higher image quality.
Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers worldwide. It operates through two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing.