On Monday, Shares of Sprint Corp (NYSE:S), lost -1.04% to $3.79.
Jorge Gracia, 50, will join Sprint (NYSE:S) as senior vice president and general counsel effective January 2, 2016. Gracia replaces Charles Wunsch, who held the position since 2008 and will leave Sprint January 29, 2016, after ensuring a smooth transition to Gracia.
As a member of the Sprint leadership team, Gracia will be the principal in-house lawyer for Sprint providing advice and counsel on issues of overarching importance to Sprint and will assist in setting and implementing the company’s overall planned direction. He will report to CEO Marcelo Claure.
“Jorge is an accomplished attorney and a seasoned business strategist,” Claure said. “He is practiced in building high-performing teams and tenaciously leading them to pursue resolution to complex issues. Those skills are a perfect fit for Sprint and I am confident he will be a great addition to our team leading Sprint’s transformation.”
Sprint Corporation, through its auxiliaries, provides various wireless and wire line communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company’s Wireless segment offers wireless data communication services, counting mobile productivity applications, such as Internet access, messaging, and email services; wireless photo and video offerings; location-based capabilities comprising asset and fleet administration, dispatch services, and navigation tools; and mobile entertainment applications.
Shares of Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT), inclined 0.62% to $76.56, during its last trading session.
Medtronic plc, has conducted a preliminary review of the United States Department of Treasury`s Notice 2015-79, issued on November 19, 2015, which is aimed at addressing certain aspects of transactions known as “tax inversions.” Medtronic has concluded that the actions declared in Notice 2015-79 do not have a material financial impact on the company. Medtronic will continue to more fully assess Notice 2015-79 and will provide appropriate disclosure concerning any potential material impact on the company as necessary.
Medtronic`s acquisition of Covidien, which closed in January of 2015, was undertaken for planned reasons and has created a company that is positively impacting the lives of more patients, in more ways and in more places around the world.
Medtronic plc manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide. The company’s Cardiac and Vascular Group segment offers pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, AF products, diagnostics and monitoring devices, and remote monitoring and patient-centered software; and heart valves, percutaneous coronary intervention stent products, surgical valve replacement and repair products, endovascular stent grafts, and peripheral vascular intervention products.
Finally, Shares of Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT), ended its last trade with 0.83% gain, and closed at $35.04.
Fortinet (FTNT), declared that it has expanded its information security services with the appointment of security industry veteran Tyson Macaulay as chief security strategist and vice president of consulting services. In this newly created role, Macaulay will be a trusted advisor to C-Level enterprise customers, assisting them take a holistic approach to managing their data security environments in a threat landscape that is rapidly changing and evolving.
“In order to fully protect businesses of all sizes from recently’s security threats, companies need to take a proactive approach to deliver a seamless threat posture across their infrastructure,” said Holly Rollo, Fortinet’s chief marketing officer. “Our enterprise business is growing and Tyson will play a critical role in assisting our customers future-proof their cyber security strategies to assist them stay ahead of threats and protect their business”.
Macaulay joins Fortinet from Intel Security, where he served as the Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications Strategy and played an instrumental role in developing security solutions and sales channels through tier-1 carriers, service providers, and telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Macaulay’s work at Intel comprised leading an international team of telecom account managers, engineers, and professional service consultants.
Fortinet, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. The company offers FortiGate physical and virtual appliances products that provide various integrated security and networking functions to protect data, applications, and users from network- and content-level security threats; FortiManager product family to manage the system configuration and security functions of multiple FortiGate devices from a centralized console; and the FortiAnalyzer product family, which enables the collection, analysis, and archiving of content and log data generated by its products.
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