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Tuesday 23 June 2015
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Pre-Market News Report on: International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM), Viacom, (NASDAQ:VIAB), Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE:GPK), Mosaic (NYSE:MOS)

On Thursday, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM)’s shares inclined 0.62% to $168.21.

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Sogeti, a partner of the Capgemini Group, are partnering to bring IBM’s cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Bluemix, to developers and clients across 15 countries worldwide to assist them integrate and analyze data easier and more efficiently.

As the largest deployment of Cloud Foundry in the world, Bluemix will assist Sogeti build hybrid cloud applications across public, private and on-premise infrastructure faster; leveraging IBM’s open-standards based approach to cloud to streamline integration of data.

In addition to opening access to Bluemix for its own developers, Sogeti will use it to power existing end-user solutions for commerce, the internet of things (IoT) and data analytics for clients in retail, healthcare, transportation, and energy and utilities. In fact, using its smartEngine gateway, Sogeti has already built a solution with IBM Bluemix for managing smarter buildings. By connecting sensors that use different protocols and data formats on Bluemix, Sogeti can provide clients with insights on the performance of their Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning, lighting and other energy-producing processes, which they will use to minimize energy costs, optimize environmental impact, and enhance security. Sogeti will use the same combination of its smartEngine and IBM’s Internet of Things service on Bluemix to provide insights on data for clients in a variety of industries, counting manufacturing, agriculture, utilities administration and more.

International Business Machines Corporation provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. The company’s Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, such as outsourcing, processing, integrated technology, cloud, and technology support. Its Global Business Services segment offers consulting and systems integration services for strategy and transformation, application innovation services, enterprise applications, and smarter analytics; and application administration, maintenance, and support services.

Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAB)’s shares gained 0.84% to $67.44.

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom, Inc. (VIAB).

To celebrate the release of the highly anticipated film “TERMINATOR GENISYS,” Paramount Pictures, Skydance Productions, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Waze (www.waze.com) have teamed up to give drivers around the world the ultimate voice navigation machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger as the ‘Guardian’ Terminator from “TERMINATOR GENISYS.”

Starting, users of the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app can select custom Terminator voice commands from the Terminator himself. The Terminator will give directions to user’s destinations and alert them if a T-1000 is spotted ahead. In addition, movie theater locations showing “TERMINATOR GENISYS” will be branded with the iconic red-eyed Endoskull, assisting WAZE users to see the film when it opens in theaters on July 1st, 2015.

Viacom Inc. operates as an entertainment content company in the United States and internationally. The company creates television programs, motion pictures, short-form video, applications, games, consumer products, social media, and other entertainment content.

At the end of Thursday’s trade, Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE:GPK)‘s shares surged 1.83% to $13.90.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company’s (GPK) Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share. The dividend is payable on July 5, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 15, 2015.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, together with its auxiliaries, provides paper-based packaging solutions to food, beverage, and other consumer products companies. The company produces a range of paperboard grades convertible into folding cartons primarily to protect products, such as food, detergents, paper products, beverages, and health and beauty aids.

Mosaic Co (NYSE:MOS), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 0.36% gain, and closed at $45.03.

Mosaic Co (MOS) formerly Hybrid Paytech World Inc. (HPT), a technology leader in the digital incentives, couponing and payment space, declared that on June 5th, 2015, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (the “AMF”) issued a partial revocation of the cease trade order issued on May 19 th, 2015 solely to permit the closing of a financing. The cease trade order was issued because Mobi724 was unable to file its annual financial statements, MD&A and related CEO and CFO certificates for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 (the “Year End Filings”) by the filing deadline of April 30, 2015 as prescribed by National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations (“NI 51-102). The partial revocation of the cease trade order will allow Mobi724 to complete a private placement to issue a maximum of 36 363 637 common shares at a price of $ 0.0825 for the aggregate amount of $3,000,000 . The subscribers shall also be issued one common share purchase warrant for every common share issued on the first $2,000,000 at an exercise price of $0.0825 exercisable between November 15, 2015 and March 31 st 2016 after which they shall expire. The distribution will only take place in Quebec .

The funds raised shall permit Mobi724 to prepare and finalize Year End Filings, to prepare its interim financial statements, interim MD&A and related CEO and CFO certificates for the interim period ended March 31, 2015 (the “Interim Filings”), to file a full revocation order within 60 days from the closing of the private placement, to satisfy ongoing debt obligations, to pay past due payroll expenses and to satisfy minimum overhead expenses to sustain ongoing operations.

The Mosaic Company produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agricultural industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Phosphates and Potash.

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