On Thursday, Equinix Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX)’s shares declined -1.16% to $263.06.
Equinix Inc (EQIX) declared that it has signed a contract with Aliyun, Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s (BABA) cloud computing arm, to provide direct access to Aliyun’s cloud platform via the Equinix Cloud Exchange in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley. The partnership provides multinational, Chinese, and North American enterprises with dedicated and secure access to the full suite of Aliyun’s cloud services.
As multi-national enterprise customers look to expand their cloud-based applications across Asia, it is imperative they are able do so in a secure, direct manner, without compromising network and application performance. Together, Equinix and Aliyun will enable enterprises in Asia and North America to build public and hybrid cloud solutions using the cloud capabilities of Aliyun combined with the interconnection solutions from Equinix, in a direct, secure and high-performing manner.
Equinix, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust. It provides data center services to protect and connect the information assets for the enterprises, financial services companies, and content and network providers primarily in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.
Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT)’s shares dropped -5.18% to $2.38.
Scorpio Bulkers Inc (SALT) declared that it has reached agreements to sell three Capesize new building dry bulk vessels and two LR2 product tankers under construction for about $236 million in aggregate.
The Capesize vessels are presently being constructed in China, and have predictable delivery dates between the first quarter of 2016 and the second quarter of 2016. The LR2 product tankers are presently being constructed in Romania, and have predictable delivery dates in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.
Scorpio Bulkers Inc., together with its auxiliaries, engages in the marine transportation of dry bulk commodities. Its fleet transports a range of major and minor bulk commodities, counting ores, coal, grains, and fertilizers along worldwide shipping routes.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ANTH)‘s shares surged 4.52% to $6.24.
Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc (ANTH) declared that additional data from its Phase 2b PEARL-SC study will be presented in a poster at the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Rome, Italy.
As part of a guided poster tour on June 6th, 2015, Dr. Michelle Petri, Director of the Hopkins Lupus Center at Johns Hopkins University, will present breaking data on the impact of treatment with blisibimod on patient-stated fatigue and improvement in disease biomarkers.
Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing medicines for patients with unmet medical needs. It is developing blisibimod, a Phase III product candidate that targets B-cell activating factor associated with various B-cell mediated autoimmune diseases, counting systemic lupus erythematosus, Immunoglobulin A nephropathy, lupus nephritis, and others.
VisionChina Media Inc (ADR)(NASDAQ:VISN), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 12.77% gain, and closed at $17.75.
VisionChina Media Inc (ADR) (VISN) declared its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.
First Quarter 2015 Results
VisionChina Media’s total revenues were $15.3 million in the first quarter of 2015, representing a decrease of 30.5% from $22.0 million in the first quarter of 2014 and a decrease of 29.2% from $21.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. The year-over-year decrease of advertising revenue was mainly attributable to the temporary holdback of subway advertising spending by advertisers while the Company restructured its subway contracts in Guangzhou city and Beijing city. With these restructurings now complete, administration anticipates to see a strong rebound in advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2015.
Total broadcasting hours in the first quarter of 2015 were 31,635 hours, contrast to 37,620 hours in the first quarter of 2014 and 33,440 hours in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Average advertising revenue per broadcasting hour was $314 in the first quarter of 2015, contrast to $543 in the first quarter of 2014 and $426 in the fourth quarter of 2014.
The Company sold an average of 6.11 advertising minutes per broadcasting hour in the first quarter of 2015, contrast to 7.03 advertising minutes per broadcasting hour in the first quarter of 2014 and 6.27 advertising minutes per broadcasting hour in the fourth quarter of 2014.
During the first quarter of 2015, 218 advertisers purchased advertising time on the Company’s advertising network, either directly or through advertising agents, contrast to 314 advertisers in the first quarter of 2014 and 312 advertisers in the fourth quarter of 2014.
VisionChina Media Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides advertising services in the People’s Republic of China. The company operates out-of-home advertising network using real-time mobile digital television broadcasts to deliver content and advertising on mass transportation systems. Its mobile digital television advertising network delivers real-time content offered by the local television stations.
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