On Tuesday, Fitbit Inc (NYSE:FIT)’s shares declined -0.63% to $36.54.
Fitbit, Inc., the leader in the connected health and fitness market, recently declared the Fitbit for Windows 10 app, delivering a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit assists users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight and sleep, providing the information they need to more successfully reach their aims. Fitbit users can download the Windows 10 app from the Windows Store to their desktop and tablet. Fitbit for Windows 10 will be able for Windows 10 mobile and Xbox One later this year.
Key features of the new Fitbit for Windows 10 app:
Updated live tiles that have been redesigned with more information and new notification types to let users quickly access their most critical data to better enable them to reach their personalized health and fitness aims.
Quick actions to assist users log and track their health and fitness activities, such as food, water intake and exercise, as well as set alarms more efficiently with the simple click of a button, encouraging more frequent logging.
Cortana® support allows users to speak commands on Windows 10 tablets, PCs and mobile phones – such as “Fitbit, I ate chicken for dinner” or “Fitbit, I went for a three-mile run” – for automatic and easier food and activity logging.
Fitbit Inc. manufactures and provides wearable fitness-tracking devices worldwide. The company makes both wrist bands and clippable devices that monitor a users fitness activity by tracking the calories burned or distance covered. It manufactures and markets products that track people’s health and fitness activities, counting Fitbit Zip, a wireless tracker that allows users to track daily activity statistics, such as steps, distance, calories burned, and active minutes; Fitbit One, a clippable wireless tracker, which tracks stairs climbed and sleep; Fitbit Flex, a wristband-style tracker that tracks steps, distance, calories burned, active minutes, and sleep; and Fitbit Charge, a wireless activity and sleep wristband, which tracks steps, distance, calories burned, active minutes, floors climbed, and sleep.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ)’s shares gained 2.8% to $68.25.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (STJ), a global medical device company, recently declared CE Mark approval for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) conditional labeling for the company’s Prodigy MRI™ chronic pain system with select leads. Upon its launch, the Prodigy MRI system will become the market’s smallest MR-conditional rechargeable implantable pulse generator (IPG), in addition to the industry’s sole MR-conditional SCS system capable of delivering both St. Jude Medical’s proprietary Burst stimulation and traditional tonic stimulation.
St. Jude Medical, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for cardiac rhythm administration, cardiovascular, and atrial fibrillation therapy areas worldwide. It operates in two divisions, Implantable Electronic Systems, and Cardiovascular and Ablation Technologies.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST)‘s shares dipped 2.42% to $47.22.
Ross Stores Inc. (ROST) declared the opening of 19 Ross Dress for Less® (“Ross”) and 8 dd’s DISCOUNTS® stores across 15 different states in July. These new locations are part of the off-price retailer’s 2015 expansion plans to add a total of about 90 stores during the year, counting 70 Ross and 20 dd’s DISCOUNTS.
Jim Fassio, President and Chief Development Officer, commented, “These recent openings reflect our ongoing strategy of targeting growth in both established regions and newer markets that we began to enter in 2011. The 27 locations we added this month comprise eight new stores in our newer Midwest markets of Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Kansas. Looking ahead, we continue to see noteworthy expansion opportunities throughout the country, and remain confident that Ross Dress for Less can grow to 2,000 locations and dd’s DISCOUNTS can become a chain of 500 stores.”
PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with 0.04% gain, and closed at $48.98.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) declared its $1 million commitment to support the installation of rooftop solar on 79 hoes with 18 different Habitat for Humanity local associates throughout Northern and Central California. From the Mendocino Coast to Merced, PG&E’s Solar Habitat Program, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, is making affordable housing and solar energy a reality for deserving families, particularly in neighborhoods that have been historically underserved and overlooked.
For 10 years, PG&E’s Solar Habitat Program has offered more than $9.6 million to assist respond to the housing needs of families in Northern and Central California. As the exclusive solar partner of Habitat for Humanity in the Bay Area, PG&E’s Solar Habitat Program has funded the installation of solar on more than 600 new-construction Habitat for Humanity homes throughout the utility’s Northern and Central California service area.
PG&E Corporation, through its partner, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, transmits, delivers, and sells electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers primarily in northern and central California. The company’s electricity distribution network comprises of 141,700 circuit miles of electric distribution lines, 55 transmission switching substations, and 603 distribution substations; and electricity transmission network comprises 18,100 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines and 91 electric transmission substations. Its natural gas system comprises of about 42,700 miles of distribution pipelines, about 6,400 miles of backbone and local transmission pipelines, and various storage facilities.
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