On Thursday, in the course of afternoon trade, Shares of Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN), climbed 0.62%, and is now trading at $18.00.
Nuance Communications, declared a new portfolio of Dragon speech recognition solutions, counting the new Dragon Anywhere mobile app for iOS and Android, the new Dragon Professional Individual and Dragon for Mac desktop solutions, and Dragon Professional Group with the Nuance User Administration Center for group and corporate deployments. These new products are, for the first time, enabling seamless synchronization of key Dragon features across PC, Mac, iOS, and Android through the cloud, ensuring that organizations and individual professionals can remain productive wherever work takes them, by accessing a compriseent, customized dictation experience on any device.
Many companies, organizations and individual professionals across industries, counting legal, public safety, social services, and education, face critical, yet time-consuming documentation and reporting demands that too often lead to paperwork backlog, missed reporting deadlines or noncompliance. In addition, documentation inefficiencies can force professionals to focus too much time on typing and too little time on clients and core business activities that drive growth and profitability.
The innovative solutions in the new Dragon portfolio empower professionals and organizations to work smarter and more productively – in the office and on the go – with fast, accurate dictation and transcription, advanced customization, seamless integration across devices, and centralized administration of multi-user and enterprise deployments. As a result, professionals can complete documentation tasks more efficiently from any location with a personalized speech recognition experience customized for how they work and what they say.
Nuance Communications, Inc. provides voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. It offers hosted and on-premise solutions and services that provide platforms to generate and distribute clinical documentation through the use of dictation and transcription features; clinical documentation improvement programs; and speech recognition solutions for radiology, cardiology, pathology, and related specialties enabling healthcare providers to dictate, edit, and sign reports without manual transcription.
Shares of Photronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLAB), during its Thursday’s current trading session climbed 3.53%, and is now trading at $8.80.
Photronics, stated financial results for the fiscal 2015 third quarter ended August 2, 2015.
Peter Kirlin, Photronics’ chief executive officer commented, “High-end flat panel display sales led by raised demand for AMOLED photomasks assisted us achieve revenues near the high end of our expectations for the quarter. This was the second successive quarter with sales up on a sequential in addition to a year-over-year basis. Our continuously improving manufacturing efficiencies enabled us to leverage our incremental revenue growth into bottom line performance above our guided range.”
Sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 were $131.7 million, a sequential enhance of 3% contrast with $127.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2015. Sales for the third quarter of 2014 were $124.9 million. Sales of semiconductor photomasks were $104.0 million, or 79% of revenues, during the third quarter of fiscal 2015, and sales of flat panel display (FPD) photomasks were $27.7 million, or 21% of revenues.
GAAP and non-GAAP net income attributable to Photronics, Inc. shareholders for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 was $12.1 million, or $0.17 per diluted share. GAAP and non-GAAP net income attributable to Photronics, Inc. shareholders for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 was $4.2 million, or $0.07 per diluted share.
Photronics, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells photomasks in the United States. Photomasks are high precision photographic quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits.
Finally, Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS), gained 0.24% Thursday.
Hudson, Mass.-based Avidia Bank is one of the first financial institutions in New England to offer Cardless Cash ATM access thanks to their partnership with FIS (FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions.
Avidia Mobile’s Cardless Cash feature will enable consumers to interact with the ATM from the privacy and security of their mobile devices, stage a transaction before stepping up to the ATM and then receive an eReceipt for the transaction on their devices. It’s part of an ongoing effort by the bank to offer the latest in mobile banking innovation to its customer base. Cardless Cash joins a robust line of mobile banking features from FIS accessible within Avidia Mobile, such as remote check deposit and person-to-person (P2P) payments. Other enhancements with this upgrade will comprise the addition of Touch ID and Passcode to give customers quick access to app features.
“FIS continues to disrupt and redefine the mobile banking market, making it faster, safer and easier for customers,” said Douglas Brown, senior vice president and general manager, FIS Mobile, FIS. “Cardless Cash is one such advancement, making withdrawals simpler while simultaneously eliminating the risk of card loss or fraud.”
Unlike other mobile cash access models that utilize temporary authorization codes, FIS Cardless Cash at Avidia Bank uses the security within the app authentication process and registration of the FIS Mobile Wallet technology on the smartphone, therefore eliminating card skimming risk and fraud incidents for banks and their customers. With this QR-based technology in place, Avidia Bank will continue moving forward in the digital payments space with the addition of a mobile wallet feature within the Avidia Mobile app.
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides banking and payments technology, consulting, and outsourcing solutions worldwide. Its Financial Solutions Group segment offers core processing software applications to run banking processes; retail banking delivery applications that enable financial institutions to integrate and streamline customer-facing operations and back-office processes; fraud, risk administration, and compliance solutions; syndicated loan applications that support wholesale and commercial banking operations; and onshore and offshore commercial services, such as consulting engagements, application development projects, operations support, and infrastructure administration, in addition to integrated consulting and advisory, technology, and IT transformation services.
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