SolarCity (NASDAQ:SCTY) announced in a blog post Tuesday that it had acquired a new solar technologies manufacturer, and in doing so entered into talks with the state of New York to build one of the largest solar panel production plants in the world. SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) stock opened today at $54.99 and is currently trading at $60.52. The stock showed a positive weekly performance of 10.60%.
Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (NYSE:OWW) Director Kristina M. Leslie sold 6,316 shares of the company’s stock on the open market in a transaction dated Friday, June 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $8.07, for a total transaction of $50,970.12. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 75,502 shares in the company, valued at approximately $609,301. Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:OWW) stock opened at $8.41, in current trading session and currently is at $8.44, by gaining 3.94%. The 52 week range of $6.40 – $13.26. Company’s market capitalization is 922.04 million.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is planning to introduce a smartphone Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, plunging the world’s largest online retailer deeper into the competitive mobile-device market. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock is currently trading at $326.73. The EPS of the stock is 0.64. Company’s market capitalization is 150.35 billion.
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity spokesman David Roeder on June 16, 2014 announced that eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) was planning to expand the tentacles of its business into Chicago. David Roeder, at the same time, also announced that this would make the company eligible for receiving the incentive package. Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn said that he was thrilled to know that the company chose Chicago for expansion. eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock opened the session at $48.90, and now is at $49.05. The 52 week range of the eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock remained $48.06 – $59.70 and the day range was $48.78 – $49.22.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Azure cloud platform was recently renamed to drop the Windows association in an effort to highlight the fact that Azure does more than just run Windows in the cloud. You can see the evidence of this push on multiple fronts, from the support for a wide range of Linux guest virtual machines to support for popular open source programming languages. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock opened today at $41.29 and is currently trading at $41.65. The stock showed a positive weekly performance of 0.56%.