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Friday 9 October 2015
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Stocks in Focus: Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MMC)

On Tuesday, Shares of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), gained 2.38% to $57.11.

Comcast Corporation, declared that Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel has upgraded its Comcast Business Ethernet services spanning its 1919 guest rooms and 130,000 square feet of meeting space, to provide a strong and reliable Internet experience for its guests. With the upgrade, Hilton San Francisco Union Square has moved from two Internet circuits of 500Mbps to two dedicated 1Gbps circuits, upgradable to 10Gbps.

Hilton San Francisco Union Square, the brand’s largest property in the Western U.S. and the largest hotel in San Francisco, hosts a variety of corporate clients counting leading organizations in the tech sector, making it imperative that its Internet offering is high-speed, reliable, flexible to scale and able to rapidly respond to the demands of its clientele in both its guest rooms and meeting spaces. It is equally important for the hotel to be able to provide the bandwidth to support guests’ social activities counting streaming video or other content to keep in touch with loved ones, while meeting industry standards to support up to 6,000 guests online at the same time.

“One of the essential amenities we offer to our guests is Internet and our aim to support as many users with as much bandwidth at the highest speed possible at any given time is made possible by using Comcast Business’ Ethernet,” said Pejman Parvazi, Area Manager for Information Technology at Hilton Worldwide. “We have been impressed with Comcast’s ability to address our needs and provide the potential to grow while offering reliable support. It is important for us to deliver high quality amenities to our guests.”

Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments.

Finally, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MMC), ended its last trade with 2.30% gain, and closed at $63.17.

Mercer, a wholly-owned partner of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC), declared that it has reached a global agreement for the SAP group with SAP America Inc., a wholly owned partner of SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) to provide advisory services to customers on cloud-based human capital administration (HCM) solutions from SuccessFactors, an SAP company.

As a provider of advisory services for SAP solutions, Mercer will assist organizations by providing them with a range of advisory and project administration services before and after their implementation of cloud solutions from SuccessFactors, counting:

  • Broad program administration for HR transformation projects with administration of SAP solution implementation activities.
  • HR service delivery strategy, assessment, and redesign.
  • Talent strategy, counting assessment and development.
  • Compensation design, counting workforce and executive rewards.
  • Job family architecture design, counting job catalogues and salary compensation structures.
  • Communications and change administration to accelerate user adoption and acceptance.
  • Knowledge transfer to create self-sufficiency.
  • Global process design and optimization.
  • HR shared services design and deployment.
  • Workforce analytics and planning.

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a professional services firm, provides advice and solutions primarily in the areas of risk, strategy, and people worldwide. It operates in two segments, Risk and Insurance Services; and Consulting.

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