On Friday, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)’s shares declined -2.28% to $26.16.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) reinvents the partnership experience. We are announcing a brand-new offer to deliver the three types of communication tools people use at work the most — messaging, meeting, and calling — from the cloud. In addition, we’re making it possible for our phones and video conferencing systems to plug into the cloud and access these new services. By making partnership accessible from our cloud platform, we’re changing everything.
This changes everything because:
- It is designed from the ground up for highly secure partnership that is delightful to use. Most of us use unconnected tools for team messaging, virtual meetings and phone calls. Called Cisco Spark, our new offer mixes messaging, meeting and calling in such a simple way that it is hard to tell where one ends and the next starts. With Cisco Spark, all three are parts of a complete user experience. For instance, with a single click you can turn a phone call into a video meeting. With a swipe you can move a video call from a room system to your mobile phone and then to another room — so you don’t have to miss anything when you need to move.
- It makes setting up video rooms and phones a snap. Have you ever shown a QR code on your smartphone to board a plane? That’s how easy it is to set up a desk phone now.
- It connects phone systems to the cloud.Enterprises have a lot invested in phone systems and other on-premises equipment. Cisco Spark Hybrid Services enables entirely new and amazing experiences by connecting this equipment to the cloud.
For example, let’s look at what Cisco Spark Hybrid Services does when you place a call from a Cisco IP phone. The act of placing the call automatically creates a meeting in the Spark room that the two of you share. There, you can show content with a single click. We call this a “zero-touch meeting” because no one actually has to set it up — it is just there when you need it.
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP) based networking products and services related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide.
United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX)’s shares dropped -0.60% to $93.31.
In a meeting with investors and analysts, United Technologies Corp. (UTX) President and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Hayes will communicate the company’s expectation for 2015 adjusted earnings per share (Adjusted EPS*) of $6.20 to $6.30, raising the lower end of the previous range by $0.05. In the current quarter, the company anticipates to record a $3.3 billion after-tax gain on the Sikorsky divestiture.
UTC anticipates 2016 adjusted earnings per share of $6.30 to $6.60. Sales for 2016 are predictable to be $56 billion to $58 billion, with organic growth of 1 to 3 percent.
The company will declare a $1.5 billion multi-year restructuring plan focused on structural cost reductions in high-cost locations, which is predictable to result in $900 million of annualized run-rate savings when accomplished. Actions under this plan are predictable to be implemented through 2018. Restructuring charges in 2015 are now predictable to be about $400 million, up from the preceding expectation of $300 million.
United Technologies Corporation provides technology products and services to building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. Its Otis segment designs, manufactures, sells, and installs passenger and freight elevators, escalators, and moving walkways; modernization products to upgrade elevators and escalators; and maintenance and repair services.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)‘s shares dipped -2.57% to $113.18.
Apple® declared that its Swift™ programming language is now open source. As an open source language, the broad community of talented developers — from app developers to educational institutions to enterprises — can contribute to new Swift features and optimizations and help bring Swift to new computing platforms. Introduced in 2014, Swift is the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency of compiled languages with the simplicity and interactivity of popular scripting languages.* Apple also launched the Swift.org website with detailed information about Swift open source, including technical documentation, community resources and links to download the Swift source code.
“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”
Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language that gives developers the freedom and capabilities they need to create the next generation of cutting-edge software. Swift is easy to learn and use, even if you’ve never coded before, and it’s the first systems programming language that is as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language. Designed for safety, Swift also eliminates entire categories of common programming errors.
The Swift open source code is available via GitHub and includes support for all Apple software platforms — iOS, OS X®, watchOS and tvOS™ — as well as for Linux. Components available include the Swift compiler, debugger, standard library, foundation libraries, package manager and REPL. Swift is licensed under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license with a runtime library exception, enabling users to easily incorporate Swift into their own software and port the language to new platforms. For more information about Swift, and access to community resources visit the new Swift.org.
The Macerich Company is an independent real estate investment trust. The firm invests in the real estate markets of the United States. It primarily engages in acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, administration and leasing of regional and community shopping centers located throughout the United States.
