On Wednesday, in the course of current trade, Shares of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), dropped -1.04%, and is now trading at $16.18.
Today, Bank of America Corporation, declared the voting results of matters considered during the company’s annual meeting of shareholders in Charlotte.
Shareholders elected the 13 board of director nominees, approved a administration advisory proposal on compensation of named executive officers, ratified the appointment of the company’s independent accounting firm and approved the amendment and restatement of the 2003 Key Associate Stock Plan. None of the shareholder proposals were approved.
Bank of America Corporation, through its auxiliaries, provides banking and financial products and services for individual consumers, small and middle market businesses, institutional investors, large corporations, and governments worldwide.
During an Afternoon trade, Shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), dipped -2.02%, and is now trading at $46.64.
Today, Fortinet®(FTNT), declared a partnership with Microsoft (MSFT) to provide high-performance network security for Microsoft Azure. Fortinet’s unrivaled FortiGate-VM next generation firewall assists enable Azure enterprise customers to improve security for their cloud-based workloads and meet security and compliance requirements.
FortiGate-VM is plannedally designed to assist customers better mitigate potential blind spots by implementing critical network security controls counting bi-directional stateful firewalling, intrusion prevention, application control, VPN, together with additional security controls within their Azure Virtual Network.
“As a global leader in IT infrastructure services, Microsoft is an ideal choice for Fortinet to collaborate with,” said John Maddison, vice president, marketing products at Fortinet. “The declaration of our expanded relationship for Azure further extends both Fortinet’s broad cloud computing portfolio and our commitment to protecting customer applications in cloud environments.”
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system.
Shares of Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR), during its Wednesday’s current trading session fell -9.42%, and is now trading at $6.11.
Frontier Communications Corporation, declared that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.105 per share of common stock, payable on June 30, 2015 to holders of record of common stock at the close of business on May 28, 2015.
Frontier Communications Corporation, a communications company, provides regulated and unregulated voice, data, and video services to residential, business, and wholesale customers in the United States.
Finally, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), gained 2.02% Wednesday.
Today, Alcatel-Lucent has signed a five-year agreement with KPN to provide its new Rapport™ communications software, enabling the Dutch operator to simplify and consolidate a number of voice services, such as VoLTE, onto one platform.
Rapport communications will play a key role in KPN’s ability to create and deliver new applications and services, to any device, based on the software’s built-in APIs.
Key Facts:
- KPN will use Alcatel-Lucent Rapport to provide its consumer and business customers with voice and rich communication services, regardless of device or whether they are in a fixed or mobile environment.
- Rapport is based on a fully re-architected version of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) software, the foundation for the company’s award-winning Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology. It comprises APIs that allow new web communication services to be added to the rich functionality of KPN’s all-IP network.
- Alcatel-Lucent supports more than 69 commercial customer IMS deployments worldwide and is the communications core for next generation IP networks, counting LTE and VoLTE.
Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.
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