On Friday, 3M Co (NYSE:MMM)’s shares inclined 0.34% to $141.26.
3M recently declared that it is exploring planned alternatives for its global Health Information Systems business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could comprise spinning-off, selling, or retaining and further investing in the business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, operates with providers, payers, and government agencies to anticipate and navigate a changing healthcare landscape. 3M provides healthcare data aggregation, analysis, and planned services that assist clients move from volume-based to value-based health care, resulting in millions of dollars in savings, improved provider performance, and higher quality of care. 3M’s innovative software is designed to raise the bar for computer-assisted coding, clinical documentation improvement, performance monitoring, quality outcomes reporting, and terminology administration.
3M Company operates as a diversified technology company worldwide. Its Industrial segment offers tapes; coated, non-woven, and bonded abrasives; adhesives; ceramics; sealants; specialty materials; filtration products; closure systems for personal hygiene products; acoustic systems products; automotive components; abrasion-resistant films; structural adhesives; and paint finishing and detailing products.
Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL)’s shares gained 1.26% to $51.36.
Carnival Corporation & plc ( CC) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 (U.S.) per share. The dividend is payable on September 11, 2015, to shareholders of record on August 21, 2015.
Holders of Carnival Corporation common stock or Carnival plc ADSs will receive a dividend payable in U.S. dollars. The dividend for Carnival plc ordinary shares will be payable in sterling unless shareholders elected to receive the dividend in U.S. dollars by August 21, 2015.
Carnival Corporation operates as a cruise company worldwide. It provides vacations to various cruise destinations. The company offers cruise services under the Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn brand names in North America; and AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, and P&O Cruises names in Europe, Australia, and Asia. It operates 100 cruise ships. It also owns and operates 12 hotels or lodges, and about 300 motor coaches and 20 glass-domed railcars.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARNA)‘s shares surged 5.54% to $2.86.
Arena Solutions, the pioneer of cloud-based product lifecycle administration (PLM) applications, recently declared that its flagship product, Arena PLM, now integrates with Kenandy Cloud ERP, an enterprise resource planning system for midmarket and large global enterprises built on the Salesforce Platform. With this integration, the product record can be automatically passed from Arena PLM to Kenandy at the point of change approval. This eliminates errors and accelerates access of product information in Kenandy to create a more cohesive and efficient manufacturing process.
Arena PLM and Kenandy Cloud ERP can now communicate directly with each other, enabling customers to share up-to-date product data with finance, sales and manufacturing departments to ensure accurate financial planning and support operations.
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes novel drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors. The company offers BELVIQ, a drug used to treat chronic weight administration in adults. It is also developing a portfolio of programs in various therapeutic areas, counting cardiovascular, central nervous system, and metabolic diseases. Its products under development comprise Ralinepag, an agonist of the prostacyclin receptor intended for the treatment of vascular diseases, counting potentially pulmonary arterial hypertension that is in Phase II clinical trials.
American Tower Corp (NYSE:AMT), ended its Friday’s trading session with 1.06% gain, and closed at $89.26.
American Tower Corporation (AMT) declared that its Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jim Taiclet, is planned to speak at the Goldman Sachs 24th Annual Communacopia Conference in New York City on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 11:20 a.m. ET. The live audio webcast link will be accessible on the Company’s website, www.americantower.com.
American Tower Corporation is a real estate investment trust. It invests in the real estate markets across the globe. The firm engages in leasing of space on multi-tenant communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data and data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in a number of other industries. American Tower Corporation was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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