During Monday’s Current trade, Shares of Affimed NV(NASDAQ:AFMD), gain 0.24. % to $12.78.
Affimed N.V. (AFMD), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies, declared that it has established operations in the United States. The Company also declared that Caroline Stewart and Dr. Oscar Kashala have joined the Company as Head of Investor Relations & Communication and Vice President, Medical US, respectively.
Caroline brings nearly twenty years of combined experience on Wall Street and in the pharmaceutical industry to the Company. Caroline joins Affimed from H.C. Wainwright, where she served as Managing Director and Senior Biotechnology Analyst. During her tenure as Senior Biotechnology Analyst and V.P. at Piper Jaffray she was named Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” (#4) and Financial Times / Starmine #3 Best Stock Picker 2008. More recently, she served as Director of Investor Relations at Merck KGaA and also as a Senior Manager of US Finance for Sanofi’s oncology drugs. Her experience is improved by her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Barnard College of Columbia University and Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Brandeis University.
Affimed N.V., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing cancer immunotherapies. Its lead candidate is AFM13, a natural killer cell bispecific antibody (TandAb) that accomplished Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of various CD30-positive (CD30+) B- and T-cell malignancies, counting Hodgkin lymphoma.
Shares of Rocket Fuel Inc. (Nasdaq FUEL), declined -0.73% to $8.21, during its current trading session.
Rocket Fuel (FUEL), a leading programmatic marketing platform provider that uses artificial intelligence (AI) at Big Data scale to optimize marketing ROI for global agencies and enterprise marketers, declared that it is now a partner of the Federation for Internet Alerts (FIA), bringing geo-targeted advertising to real-time emergency communications.
AMBER Alerts, distributed by law enforcement and redistributed to a network of partners by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), display geographically targeted information about child abductions to the public through the radio, TV, road signs, digital billboards, Internet service providers, the trucking industry, social networking and wireless devices. As people enhance their use of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital media technology is of growing importance in reaching the public during imminent community threats like child abductions.
With the scale of mobile device penetration and precision of location data, Rocket Fuel enables FIA and AMBER Alerts to automatically reach people in the targeted areas, pinpointing users at the abduction site or within the search area defined by law enforcement. FIA can share child and suspect photos and other relevant information via mobile display ads.
Rocket Fuel Inc., a technology company, provides artificial-intelligence digital advertising solutions. The company’s artificial intelligence-driven technology platform is built on its real-time optimization engine, which leverages Big Data and its computational infrastructure to purchase and deliver highly-automated digital advertising campaigns. It offers direct response solutions, brand objectives, in addition to brand assurance and insights.
First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NASDAQ:FNFG), during its Monday’s current trading session decreased -1.60% to $9.52.
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (FNFG) ranks No. 4 among customers in a new survey of the largest U.S. banks’ reputations, up from No. 11 last year. The company is also one of only eight with “excellent” scores.
First Niagara’s 2015 ranking was the highest of any New York State-headquartered financial institution in the study for the second year in a row. The company’s top-5 overall reputation score from customers is notable, given that First Niagara is the 27th largest, by assets, among the 32 retail banks evaluated. The independent survey is conducted annually by American Banker and Reputation Institute.
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for First Niagara Bank, N.A. that provides retail and commercial banking, and other financial services to individuals, families, and businesses. The company’s deposit products comprise savings and money market, and certificate of deposit accounts, in addition to municipal deposits. Its loan portfolio comprise commercial business loans; commercial real estate and multi-family lending products; residential real estate lending products; home equity lending products; indirect automobile lending products; credit cards; and other consumer loans, such as personal secured and unsecured loans, and overdraft lines of credit.
Finally, NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTCT), decreased -0.44%, to $36.54.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NTCT), an industry leader in service assurance solutions, declared the results from the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held earlier recently at its corporate headquarters. The proposal to issue 62.5 million shares of NetScout common stock in connection with NetScout’s acquisition of Danaher Corporation’s (DHR) Communications Business was approved by about 98% of the 37.4 million shares that were voted by NetScout stockholders (92% of the Company’s 40.8 million shares outstanding).
Danaher launched an exchange offer last month related to the split-off of its Communications Business. NetScout and Danaher expect to complete the transaction in mid-July following the conclusion of the exchange offer, together with the satisfaction of the remaining closing conditions set forth in the merger agreement. Following the acquisition’s completion, Danaher’s pre-transaction stockholders and certain employees of the Communications Business will own about 59.5% of the combined company and NetScout’s pre-transaction equity holders will own about 40.5% on a fully diluted basis.
NetScout Systems, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, markets, licenses, sells, and supports network, application, and service assurance solutions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It offers performance analytics and operational intelligence solutions that facilitate the evolution toward new computing paradigms, such as virtualization, mobility, and cloud.
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