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Stocks On The Run - Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), LendingClub (NYSE:LC), 8×8 I (NASDAQ:EGHT), Papa Murphy’s Holdings, (NASDAQ:FRSH)

On Monday, Following Stocks were among the “Top 100 Gainers” of U.S. Stock Market: Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), LendingClub Corporation (NYSE:LC), 8×8 Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRSH)

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), with shares inclined 6.86%, closed at $44.99.

LendingClub Corporation (NYSE:LC), with shares jumped 3.63%, settled at $20.82.

8×8 Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), with shares climbed 6.61%, and closed at $8.71.

Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRSH), surged 6.43%, and closed at $17.55, hitting new 52-week high of $18.45.

Latest NEWS regarding these Stocks are depicted underneath:

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF)

Formerly on March 12, Alan Hoffman, executive vice president, global corporate affairs, for nutrition corporation Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), issued the following statement:

“Mr. Ackman has a $1 billion bet against Herbalife and a direct financial interest in hurting our corporation. For more than two years, he has spent over $75 million orchestrating a false and fabricated attack against Herbalife, all in an effort to enrich himself. We are confident in the strong fundamentals of our business model and have remained committed to assisting people and communities improve their nutrition, while knowing that one day his tactics would be exposed.”

Herbalife Ltd., a nutrition corporation, develops and sells weight administration, healthy meals and snacks, sports and fitness, energy and targeted nutritional products, and personal care products.

LendingClub Corporation (NYSE:LC)

Formerly on March 11, LendingClub Corporation (LC), the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, declared the launch of a partnership with HomeAdvisor, an online home improvement marketplace where homeowners can connect with pre-screened local home repair and improvement professionals. Under this multi-year contract, Lending Club will be the exclusive partner providing access to loans for consumers seeking home improvement project financing through the HomeAdvisor website.

“In recent years there have been remarkably few options accessible for consumers to finance their home improvement or renovation project as the process for obtaining home equity lines of credit has become increasingly strenuous,” said Lending Club Founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche. “We’re proud to partner with HomeAdvisor to make it easier and more cost efficient for consumers to improve their homes and lives.”

HomeAdvisor matches homeowners with pre-screened, local home improvement professionals and provides the homeowner with access to reviews on the professionals from other HomeAdvisor customers. Lending Club’s marketplace will be integrated into the HomeAdvisor site so that HomeAdvisor customers can get preapproved for project financing through the Lending Club platform, with fixed monthly payments and no prepayment penalties, at interest rates starting at 3.99% (4.99% APR).

Lending Club utilizes technology and innovation to reduce costs and offer borrowers better rates and investors better returns. As of December 31, 2014, over $7.6 billion in loans have been facilitated through the Lending Club platform.

8×8 Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT)

8×8 Inc. (EGHT), a leading provider of cloud-based unified communications and contact center solutions, declared it has two new product integrations based on the Salesforce1 Platform.

Since its original listing on the AppExchange in 2008, 8×8 has enabled thousands of Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud customers to improve operational efficiencies, build more effective sales organizations and optimize customer engagements with its integrated Virtual Office and Virtual Contact Center solutions.

An ISVforce partner, 8×8’s latest Virtual Office and Virtual Contact Center AppExchange integrations are built on the Salesforce1 Platform utilizing Salesforce’s OpenCTI toolkit. These integrations fit seamlessly into users’ Salesforce environments with screen pops of Salesforce contacts, click-to-dial from within the Salesforce application and new functionality that automatically logs call activity into the Salesforce application, enabling customers to gather call metrics directly from the Salesforce reporting engine.

With 8×8’s integrated cloud communications offerings, Salesforce customers can:

  • Automatically sync inbound customer calls with customer information to instantly display caller’s details and previous contact history via screen pops.
  • Auto log information from customer interactions, counting notes, to the customer record.
  • Log received and missed calls into Salesforce.
  • Work seamlessly with other 8×8 phone service features inside the Salesforce Console.
  • Control calls from the desktop, counting transfer, mute, conferencing and more.
  • Use analytics to track sales performance against sales behavior.
  • Record calls for employee evaluation and training.
  • Easily conduct audio and video meetings.
  • Pull in expert resources and use screen sharing to close the sale.

8×8, Inc. provides unified communications and partnership(UCC) services in the cloud for small and medium businesses, and mid-market and distributed enterprises. The corporation offers a suite of UCC services to in-office and mobile devices spanning cloud telephony, virtual contact center, and virtual meeting through a proprietary unified software-as-a-service platform.

Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRSH)

Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc. (FRSH), declared plans to strengthen and grow its presence in the Southeast. The Corporation, which presently has over 1,400 locations in 38 states, recently accomplished attainments of existing Papa Murphy’s franchise stores in Jacksonville, FL as a springboard for further expansion throughout the Southeast.

Papa Murphy’s is a franchisor and operator of the largest take ‘n’ bake pizza chain in the United States, selling scratch-made pizzas that customers take home and bake in their own oven for a convenient home-baked meal. The Corporation makes fresh dough in-store daily and tops its pizzas with fresh, never frozen ingredients counting vegetables chopped daily, 100 percent whole-milk mozzarella — grated in-store each day — high quality meat with no added fillers and specialty, premium ingredients like spicy fennel sausage, Angus steak, roasted garlic and artichoke hearts. Papa Murphy’s core purpose is to bring families together through food people love with a aim of creating fun, convenient and fulfilling family dinners.

To celebrate the brand’s expansion, Papa Murphy’s will host promotions for all stores in the Jacksonville market during the week of Sunday, March 22 through Saturday, March 28. To kick off the deal week, on Sunday, the stores will offer two Large pizzas for $10 each. On Tuesday, customers can purchase any Large pizza for $10 and on the remaining days of the week, customers will receive a free Large Pepperoni Pizza with the purchase of any pizza at regular price.

Papa Murphy’s Holdings, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, owns, operates, and franchises Take NBake pizza stores. As of December 29, 2014, it operated 1,461 stores with 1,433 stores located in 38 states comprising of 1,342 franchised and 91 Corporation-owned stores; 19 stores in Canada; and 9 stores in the Middle East. The corporation was founded in 1981 and is based in Vancouver, Washington.

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