On Thursday, Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), lost -0.40% to $47.66.
The Verizon Innovative App Challenge – the no-coding-skills-needed contest that gives middle and high school students a chance to bring their problem-solving app ideas to life – is back! In its fourth year, the App Challenge calls students to gather teams, dream up ideas, and create concepts for mobile apps that could solve problems in their schools and communities.
For the first time, the App Challenge will be open to teams representing non-profit organizations in addition to schools, and even more students will earn free tablets and cash awards for the groups they represent. The deadline for submission is Nov. 24, and the winners will be named in January 2016.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, is assisting Verizon to encourage students nationwide to submit their ideas and to organize their teams now.
Created by the Verizon Foundation in partnership with the Technology Student Association, the App Challenge offers hands-on, experiential learning to ultimately assist students envision brighter futures for themselves that they may never have imagined, as business owners, app inventors and professional coders.
Verizon Communications Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides communications, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide.
Shares of CDK Global Inc (NASDAQ:CDK), remained flat at $50.39, during its last trading session.
CDK Global, has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share payable on September 29, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2015.
CDK Global, Inc. provides integrated information technology and digital marketing/advertising solutions to the automotive retail industry. Its solutions automate and integrate critical workflow processes from pre-sale targeted advertising and marketing campaigns to the sale, financing, insurance, parts supply, and repair and maintenance of vehicles.
Finally, KLA-Tencor Corp (NASDAQ:KLAC), ended its last trade with -2.35% loss, and closed at $51.52.
KLA-Tencor Corporation, declared operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. KLA-Tencor stated GAAP net income of $142 million and GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.89 on revenues of $756 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015, the company stated GAAP net income of $366 million and GAAP earnings per diluted share of $2.24 on revenues of $2.8 billion.
“KLA-Tencor posted solid results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, delivering earnings near the top of our range of guidance, demonstrating our market leadership and strong operational execution,” said Rick Wallace, President and Chief Executive Officer. “KLA-Tencor’s advanced process control solutions and services play an enabling role in assisting our customers achieve their growth strategies in leading edge semiconductor device manufacturing.”
KLA-Tencor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control and yield administration solutions worldwide. It offers chip manufacturing products, such as front-end defect inspection tools, advanced packaging process control systems, defect review systems, metrology solutions, in-situ process monitoring products, and lithography software; wafer manufacturing products comprising surface and defect inspection, wafer geometry and nanotopography metrology, and data administration; and reticle manufacturing products, such as defect inspection and pattern placement metrology products.
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