On Friday, Shares of Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), surged 0.31% to $24.57.
On April 13, Aruba Networks, declared that Boston Medical Center (BMC), a private, not-for-profit, 482-bed, academic medical center in Boston, MA., is deploying Aruba’s 802.11ac and mobile app solutions to enable a campus-wide Gigabit wireless network with indoor location services that will benefit physicians, staff and patients.
With more than 26,064 admissions and 874,770 patient visits in the last year, BMC is undergoing a major clinical campus redesign project, which will comprise expanding wireless coverage and upgrading to 802.11ac in all 30 existing buildings, in addition to the renovated and expanded Menino Pavilion, Yawkey Center and Moakley Buildings. In addition, the Medical Center plans to implement Aruba’s Meridian mobile app platform to allow physicians, staff, patients and visitors to more easily find their way around campus, in addition to access important information and services.
As part of the clinical campus redesign, BMC, which also serves as the teaching hospital for Boston University School of Medicine, will consolidate its campus into a smaller footprint for more efficient operations. A key part of this project is the network upgrade that will accommodate the raise in new wireless and mobile devices and new applications coming onto the network, a transition from the hospital’s multiple outdated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems to a new, one record, EPIC system, and support for the more than 450 laptops on mobile carts that doctors and nurses are using throughout the medical center to record patient data.
Aruba Networks, Inc. provides enterprise mobility solutions worldwide. It offers access points that deliver secure Wi-Fi client access to indoor and outdoor enterprise wireless local area network environments; and mobility controllers, which manage wired and wireless access across indoor, outdoor, and remotes locations.
Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), gained 0.27% to $44.67, during its last trading session.
On April 15, 19 Herbalife members travel to Washington D.C. to meet with their Members of Congress.
On the other hand, Herbalife issued the following statement in response to statements made recently by Bill Ackman:
“There is simply no truth to Bill Ackman’s statements and this is just another stunt in his campaign, a campaign that is reportedly under criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice, to drive down the stock price in an effort to enrich himself and his investors in advance of options expiring on Friday. Unfortunately we have seen this pattern of activity before, especially before the third Friday of each month, when certain options expire.”
Herbalife Ltd., a nutrition company, develops and sells weight administration, healthy meals and snacks, sports and fitness, energy and targeted nutritional products, and personal care products.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), gained 0.23% to $8.71.
J. C. Penney Company, named one of America`s Best Employers for 2015 according to an independent study organized by Forbes and Statista.com. The survey anonymously questioned 20,000 Americans on whether they would recommend their employer to potential employees, and was conducted through a variety of anonymous online panels.
JCPenney was also named to Victory Media`s Military Friendly Employer list for the second year in a row. Victory Media recognizes the Company`s military recruiting efforts, percentage of new hires with military service, veteran retention programs and National Guard and Reserve service policies.
Additionally, jcp salon was recently awarded Behind the Chair`s 2015 Stylist Choice Award for favorite chain salon group. Stylists from across the nation voted for their favorite salon chain, and jcp salon was the winner out of five finalists.
J.C. Penney Company, Inc., through its partner, J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc., sells merchandise through department stores in the United States. The company sells family apparel and footwear, accessories, fine and fashion jewelry, beauty products, and home furnishings, in addition to provides various services, counting styling salon, optical, portrait photography, and custom decorating.
Finally, Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL), ended its last trade with 0.20% gain, and closed at $34.37.
For the 11th successive year, Xcel Energy, has been named the country’s top utility wind energy provider by the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade association. For more than a decade, Xcel Energy has led the nation in providing wind energy to its customers.
In 2014, wind energy made up about 16 percent of the company’s energy supply. Presently, Xcel Energy has 5,794 megawatts of wind power in its portfolio, enough to meet the energy needs of nearly 2.9 million homes. According to a new AWEA report, Xcel Energy is the first U.S. utility to exceed 5,000 megawatts of wind. Only nine countries in the world, in addition to the states of Texas, Iowa and California, have more than 5,000 megawatts of wind capacity.
Xcel Energy’s commitment to wind energy is clear. The top 10 states for wind capacity comprise three in the company’s service territory: Texas ranks No. 1, Minnesota is No. 8 and Colorado is No. 10.
In 2013, Xcel Energy declared plans to expand its use of wind power by another 40 percent by 2016. The company is adding nine projects throughout its service territory, representing 1,900 megawatts of new wind energy resources, enough to serve about 900,000 homes. The projects were all attained at prices competitive with new natural gas-fueled generation and are estimated to save customers more than $900 million over the length of the contracts. At the end of 2014, one-third of this commitment was fulfilled as three of the contracted wind projects came online in Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma, totaling about 650 megawatts. The remaining six projects are on plan to be accomplished later this year.
Xcel Energy Inc., through its auxiliaries, engages primarily in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity in the United States. It operates through Regulated Electric Utility, Regulated Natural Gas Utility, and All Other segments.
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