On Thursday, Unum Group (NYSE:UNM)’s shares inclined 0.49% to $36.75.
Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Unum Group (UNM) released the results of a survey of more than 500 benefits decision-makers at small employers regarding their views on long-term disability insurance (LTD). The findings reveal that employers, whether they offer the benefit or not, understand the value of this insurance for employees, and that those who offer it also believe it serves the interests of their company. Employers not offering LTD are more likely to overestimate the cost of this insurance, underestimate the desire of employees for this coverage, and to experience difficulty managing disabled employees and their absences.
Unum Group, together with its auxiliaries, provides group and individual disability insurance products in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: Unum US, Unum UK, and Colonial Life. It provides group long-term and short-term disability, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, individual disability, supplemental and voluntary products, and group and individual long-term care insurance products, in addition to accident, sickness and disability products, life products, and cancer and critical illness products.
ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT)’s shares gained 1.66% to $37.29.
ADT Corp (ADT) declared it will be a sponsor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 11th annual America’s Small Business Summit, which will bring together hundreds of small business owners, managers, and local chamber leaders from across the country. As a summit event partner, ADT will assist provide attendees with opportunities to learn, network, and take part in a variety of thought-provoking sessions on leadership, innovation, and small business policy.
ADT will also sponsor the corporate headshots for small businesses at the summit. In this capacity, ADT will be empowering the small business owners in attendance to have professional materials created for their business cards, website materials and outbound marketing activities. Additionally, ADT Chief Information Security Officer Tom Dennison will be presenting on a panel called “Don’t Get Hacked! Cybersecurity on a Shoestring Budget,” a panel that will provide insights for small business customers in terms of how to protect against potential cybersecurity threats.
The ADT Corporation provides monitored security, interactive home and business automation, and related monitoring services in the United States and Canada. The company’s monitored security and home/business automation offerings comprise the installation and monitoring of residential and business security, and premises automation systems designed to detect intrusion, control access and react to movement, smoke, carbon monoxide, flooding, temperature, and other environmental conditions and hazards, in addition to address personal emergencies, such as injuries, medical emergencies, or incapacitation.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE:A)‘s shares surged 0.78% to $39.90.
Agilent Technologies Inc (A) and Waters Corp. (WAT) recently declared a formal agreement to exchange instrument controls to improve the productivity of customers who own software and instruments from both companies.
The new agreement replaces earlier provisions under which Agilent implemented control of Waters instruments in the Agilent OpenLAB chromatography data system and Waters implemented control of Agilent liquid chromatography instruments in Waters Empower Software.
The newly signed agreement defines terms and conditions on how the companies will exchange instrument control documentation and driver software and how they will provide developer and technical support to one another. It also spells out the escalation mechanisms for resolving technical issues for their mutual customers.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides bio-analytical solutions and services to the life sciences, diagnostics and genomics, chemical analysis, communications, and electronics industries worldwide. The company’s Life Sciences and Diagnostics segment offers liquid chromatography systems, columns, and components; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems; laboratory software and informatics systems; laboratory automation and robotic systems; dissolution testing; nucleic acid solutions; nuclear magnetic resonance, magnetic resonance imaging, and X-ray diffraction systems; immunohistochemistry; in situ hybridization; hematoxylin and eosin staining; special staining, DNA mutation detection; genotyping; gene copy number determination; identification of gene rearrangements; DNA methylation and gene expression profiling; next generation sequencing target enrichment; and automated gel electrophoresis-based sample analysis systems.
New Relic Inc (NYSE:NEWR), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 0.15% gain, and closed at $32.70.
New Relic Inc (NEWR) declared that FlightStats, Inc., a leader in flight data services and solutions to customers serving the global travel industry, has realized more than $300,000 in savings to-date on their software architecture since deploying the New Relic Software Analytics Platform. With New Relic’s platform, FlightStats has been able to see how efficiently their systems are operating and prioritize areas they can optimize.
With more than five million unique visitors per month and delivering nearly 100 million impressions across the web and mobile devices, FlightStats recognized it as critical to have visibility into the performance of their services and customers’ experience. New Relic has enabled FlightStats to achieve these objectives and identify areas for optimization and savings by:
- Supporting a Data-Driven Culture: FlightStats at its core is a data business assisting organizations and travelers optimize their travel experience. New Relic Insights has offered FlightStats visibility into their data sources, their customers’ experience and performance of their applications through dashboards throughout the office that inform daily decisions on their business.
- Driving Agile Development and DevOps Methods: With New Relic Insights, FlightStats’ product teams now have much more targeted data to allow them to quickly deliver the highest quality software to market. In addition, the data and analytics New Relic delivers became a common language between FlightStats’ developers and IT engineers, which they found to reduce friction after products were deployed.
- Track and Redirect Data Scrapers: New Relic Browser showed who was scraping data from the FlightStats website and enabled the company to redirect that traffic to their paid APIs. As a result FlightStats was able to decrease scraper traffic from their website by 50 percent.
- Monitor and Migrate Workloads in the Cloud:When FlightStats identified the need for a centralized global data center they decided to migrate applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). FlightStats has used New Relic APM and New Relic Server to identify which applications to move, how best to scale those resources economically, and how to decrease latency for customers through this hybrid cloud environment.
Newmac Resources Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties in Canada. The company explores for gold, silver, molybdenum, and tungsten. It focuses on the exploration and development of Crazy Fox, Moira, and Raft properties located in British Columbia. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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