On Wednesday, Shares of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), gained 0.85% to $59.32.
In celebration of LGBT Pride Month, Comcast declared it will feature a specially curated collection of films from Frameline, the world-renowned media arts organization connecting filmmakers and audiences around the world. Frameline has selected an eclectic mix of LGBT independent film titles that will be made accessible to Xfinity TV subscribers on Xfinity On Demand and online to the general public at Xfinity.com/LGBT.
Through this first-time partnership with Frameline, starting the week of June 15, Xfinity will provide access to a unique mix of independent LGBT film titles, as curated by the Frameline staff of expert programmers. These titles illustrate the vast diversity within the LGBT community and will be accessible to enjoy on Xfinity on Demand and online at Xfinity.com/LGBT. The four features and mix of short films selected by Frameline comprise:
- Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
- Decoding Alan Turing
- The Paper Mirror
- Voices from the Front
- LGBTQ Youth Perspectives/Collection of Shorts
- LGBTQ Teen Perspectives/Collection of Shorts.
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments. The Cable Communications segment offers video, high-speed Internet, and voice services to residential and business customers under the XFINITY brand name.
Shares of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV), declined -0.26% to $37.72, during its last trading session.
Southwest Airlines, declared that its Meteorologists, represented by the Transport Workers Union (TWU 550), have approved their first-ever collective bargaining agreement following certification by the National Mediation Board late last year. The Company praised the efforts of the negotiating teams at a signing ceremony on Monday (June 1) and said that the inaugural agreement will provide adjusted wage-scale step enhances and opportunities for individual and Company performance-based bonuses.
Similar to agreements the Company recently reached with its Customer Service Agents and Customer Representatives, Flight Simulator Technicians, and Dispatchers, the new Meteorologist agreement aligns with the Company’s mission of providing its Employees a rewarding and stable work environment, while supporting the airline’s Vision of being the World’s Most Loved, Most Flown, and Most Profitable Airline.
The new, four-year contract becomes amendable on June 1, 2019.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates passenger airlines that provide planned air transportation services in the United States and near-international markets. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 665 Boeing 737 aircraft; and had 12 Boeing 717 aircraft.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Shares of Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), lost -0.13% to $68.95.
Visa, and FireEye, Inc. (FEYE) declared their intention to co-develop tools and services to assist merchants and issuers protect against advanced cyber attacks targeting payment data. The first of its kind Visa and FireEye Community Threat Intelligence (CTI) offering will bring together threat information from both companies, allowing merchants and issuers to quickly detect and respond to attacks against their IT and payment infrastructure. Under the offering, FireEye will operate the easy-to-use web based service to enhance stakeholders’ knowledge of attacks targeting the ecosystem, providing a noteworthy improvement over current industry practices of sharing threat intelligence via e-mail or static documents.
As planned partners, FireEye and Visa initially plan to offer tools that will provide greater cyber intelligence and improved threat monitoring and will continue to work together, together with FireEye’s cyber forensics group Mandiant, to add more capabilities tailored to issuers and merchants of all sizes.
Visa Inc., a payments technology company, operates as a retail electronic payments network worldwide. The company facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
Finally, ABIOMED, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABMD), ended its last trade with 4.01% incline, and closed at $62.05.
ABIOMED, declared that Michael R. Minogue, Chairman, President and CEO, will present at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. CDT. The conference will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, IL.
ABIOMED, Inc. researches, develops, and sells medical devices in circulatory support and continuum of care in heart recovery to acute heart failure patients. The company offers Impella 2.5 catheter, a percutaneous micro heart pump with integrated motor and sensors for use in interventional cardiology; Impella CP that provides partial circulatory support using an extracorporeal bypass control unit; Impella 5.0 catheter and Impella LD, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; and Impella RP, a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump.
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