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1. ACAT, TXT: $ACAT Textron $TXT to Acquire Arctic Cat for $247M – SI

2. TEAR:  $TEAR TearLab Announces Approval for Osmolarity System in Mexico – SI

3. LOGI:  $LOGI Logitech Posts Striking Q3 Earnings Beat; Shares Up – Zacks

4. BOBE:  $BOBE Bob Evans to Sell Restaurants to Golden Gate Capital to $565 Million – WSJ

5. STX:  $STX Seagate Surges 11%: Q3 Rev View Beats – Barron’s

6. OREX:  $OREX Orexigen Therapeutics Announces Spanish Launch of Mysimba® – PRN

7. BLDP:  $BLDP Ballard Power Signs Initial Equipment Sales Agreement with Yinlong – SI

8. TEL:  $TEL TE Connectivity Tops Q1 EPS by 15c, Lifts Outlook – SI

9. KEYS, XXIA:  $XXIA Keysight Technologies $KEYS explores acquisition of Ixia: sources – Reuters

10. AA:  $AA Alcoa revenue tops estimates, sees higher aluminum demand – CNBC

11. CXO, PAA:  $CXO Concho Resources Announces Sale of the Alpha Crude Connector System in $1.22B Deal – SI

12. ROK:  $ROK Rockwell Automation Q1 Earnings, Sales Beat Estimates – Zacks

13. CREE:  $CREE Cree shares up nearly 5% on company’s earnings, sales beat – MW

14. NVS:  $NVS Novartis launches $5 billion share buyback, mulls Alcon spin-off – Reuters

15. ISRG:  $ISRG Intuitive Surgical beats 4Q profit forecasts – AP

16. TXN:  $TXN Texas Instruments’ Profit, Revenue Rise – WSJ

17. BA:  $BA Boeing’s stock surges after profit and sales rise beat expectations – MW

18. AAPL:  $AAPL Apple Said to Be Near Deal to Manufacture Products in India – BBG

19. DFS: $DFS Discover Financial’s Profit Rises on Loan Growth – WSJ

20. MKC: $MKC McCormick & Co. Reports In-Line Q4 EPS – SI

21. AMZN, GSAT: $GSAT Amazon $AMZN Is Testing Real World Applications With Globalstar – Odeon

22. STLD: $STLD Steel Dynamics Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual 2016 Results – PRN

23. UTX:  $UTX United Technologies Meets Estimates as Aerospace Sales Rise – BBG

24. PAA:  $PAA Plains All American Reveals Buyout & Sale Plans, Offers View – Zacks

25. HA:  $HA Hawaiian Holdings misses 4Q profit forecasts – AP

26. COF:  $COF Capital One profit falls despite revenue growth – MW

27. LN:  $LN Line Quarterly Profit, Sales Miss Projections as Growth Slows – BBG

28. MRCY:  $MRCY Mercury Systems Plans 5M Common Stock Offering – SI

29. CA:  $CA CA, Inc. Issues FY18 Earnings Guidance

30. MIK:  $MIK The Michaels Companies announces secondary offering of 18 mln shares – Reuters

31. NEWT:  $NEWT Newtek Business Services Corp. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

32. EAT:  $EAT Chili’s parent Brinker International shares sink after earnings miss, guidance cut – MW

33. TXT:  $TXT Textron to buy Arctic Cat, earnings disappoint – MW

1. AA:Alcoa upgraded at Deutsche Bank, Citi after Q4 results

1. AAPL:Barclays ” $aapl stock downgraded at due to lack of ‘needle movers’” What’s in Barclays needle that they are shooting up causing dementia?

2. H:Berenberg Bank Downgrades Hyatt Hotels Corp to Hold $H

3. KATE:Kate Spade downgraded to market perform from outperform at Telsey. Price target trimmed from $23 to $21. $KATE 1/24…

4. PII:Wunderlich Downgrades Polaris to Hold $PII

5. PUBGY:Publicis Groupe SA was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Barclays $PUBGY

6. VZ:$VZ downgraded thrice Ray J from OP to MKT pef FBR OP to MKT pef RBC OP to Sector peform and WSJ negative also –

1. TEL:$TEL reports FQ1 earnings of $1.15 EPS and $3.06B Revs –

2. TXT:$TXT reports FQ4 earnings of 80c EPS and $3.83B Revs –

3. MKC:$MKC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.27 EPS and $1.23B Revs –

4. MPX:$MPX reports FQ4 earnings of 10c EPS and $57.24M Revs –

5. ROK:$ROK reports FQ1 earnings of $1.75 EPS and $1.49B Revs –

6. UTX:$UTX reports FQ4 earnings of $1.56 EPS and $14.66B Revs –

7. RES:$RES reports FQ4 earnings of -10c EPS and $221M Revs –

8. EAT:$EAT reports FQ2 earnings of 71c EPS and $771.04M Revs –

9. STT:$STT reports FQ4 earnings of $1.48 EPS and $2.75B Revs –

10. GWW:$GWW reports FQ4 earnings of $2.45 EPS and $2.47B Revs –

11. BA:$BA reports FQ4 earnings of $2.47 EPS and $23.29B Revs –

12. HBAN:$HBAN reports FQ4 earnings of 24c EPS and $1.08B Revs –

13. CVLT:$CVLT reports FQ3 earnings of 28c EPS and $165.84M Revs –

14. CVLT:$CVLT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $1.01M –

15. MDP:$MDP reports FQ2 earnings of $1.30 EPS and $442.64M Revs –

16. ABT:$ABT reports FQ4 earnings of 65c EPS and $5.33B Revs –

17. ABT:$ABT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $63.87M –

18. HES:$HES reports FQ4 earnings of $-1.01 EPS and $1.39B Revs –

19. FCX:$FCX reports FQ4 earnings of 25c EPS and $4.38B Revs –

20. APH:$APH reports FQ4 earnings of 75c EPS and $1.65B Revs –

21. NSC:$NSC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.42 EPS and $2.49B Revs –

22. ITW:$ITW reports FQ4 earnings of $1.39 EPS and $3.40B Revs –

23. WIT:$WIT reports FQ3 earnings of 13c EPS and $2.02B Revs –

24. WIT:$WIT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $17M –

25. PGR:$PGR reports FQ4 earnings of 66c EPS and $5.87B Revs –

26. LKFN:$LKFN reports FQ4 earnings of 53c EPS and $39.64M Revs –

27. LKFN:$LKFN reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $0.84M –

28. BOKF:$BOKF reports FQ4 earnings of $1.09 EPS and $337.95M Revs –

1. BA:#Boeing Q4 of $2.47 beats by 12c. Revenue of $23.3B beats. More to come … $BA +1.46% at 162.90 premarket…

2. UTX:$UTX United Technologies Q4 16 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.56 -Revenue: $14.7B

3. FCX:$FCX Freeport McMoran : Revenue 4.38 Bln , Adj EPS 0.25

4. VIVO:$VIVO Halt – News Pending. Halt time: 07:24:48.

5. NVS:$NVS announces $5B share buyback

6. GSAT:$GSAT Amazon $AMZN Is Testing Real World Applications With Globalstar – Odeon

1. As Trump stresses ‘America First’, China plays the world leader

2. UK PM May says she will publish ‘White Paper’ setting out Brexit plan

3. Brad Loncar on Twitter

1. iOS apps can now change their icon at will? Very interesting!

Specify nil if you want to display the app primary icon which you declare using the CFBundlePrimaryIcon key.

After attempting to change your app icon the system reports the results by calling your handler.

For information about how to configure alternate icons for your app see the description of the CFBundleIcons key in.

2. Safari 10.1, part of macOS 10.12.4 and iOS 10.3, is a huge release for web developers.

Combined with the shadow DOM API introduced last year Custom Elements makes it possible to create reusable components.

It divides the page into major regions of columns and rows and provides flexibility when describing the relationships of the grid containers.

The new stepping highlights make it easier to debug JavaScript with complex control flow or many expressions on a single line.

3. AppDynamics was still meeting with IPO investors as of noon PT today.

4. .@jyotibansalsf sold his co @AppDynamics for $3.7B to Cisco. Must stop immigrants like this from coming to the USA

To drive this transformation we are excited to announce intent to acquire AppDynamics a leading privately held application intelligence software platform.

As companies across industries are expanding their digital infrastructure IT departments are faced with vast amounts of complex siloed data.

AppDynamics helps many of the largest enterprises translate this data into business insights and empowers them to drive value for their customers in digital world.

5. The American elite is preparing for a disaster with second passports and second homes in other countries (The NewYo…

Last spring as the Presidential campaign exposed increasingly toxic divisions in America Antonio García Martínez a former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators solar panels and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

of another large tech company told me still not at the point where industry insiders would turn to each other with a straight face and ask what their plans are for some apocalyptic He went on having said that I actually think logically rational and appropriately He noted the vulnerabilities exposed by the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee and also by a hack on October which disrupted the Internet in North America and Western Europe.

The Federal Civil Defense Administration created by Harry Truman issued crisp instructions for surviving a nuclear strike including in any handy ditch or and lose your In Dwight Eisenhower broke ground on Project Greek Island a secret shelter in the mountains of West Virginia large enough for every member of Congress.

6. Hard evidence that distributing content through platforms doesn’t monetize.

Publishers are receiving far less money than might have been expected from placing their content on the distribution platforms owned by companies including Facebook Google and Snapchat according to a new report.

On the one hand platforms like Facebook and Google drive huge traffic to publishers websites which they can monetize themselves through ads subscriptions or ecommerce.

A spokesperson for Snap which owns Snapchat said the company could comment directly on the findings having not seen the methodology used for the report but added that the figure cited was innacurate not representative of the revenue opportunities its Discover section offers publishers.

7. AppDynamics was on file for a <$2 bln IPO this week. Cisco just bought if for $3.7 bln in cash.

Our people products and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow digital opportunity today.

This press release may be deemed to contain statements which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of including statements regarding providing end to end visibility and intelligence from the network through to the application which combined with security and scale will help drive a new level of business results driving success for even more companies around the globe providing intelligent and actionable insights the expected completion of the acquisition and the time frame in which this will occur the expected benefits to Cisco and its customers from completing the acquisition and plans regarding AppDynamics personnel.

Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors including among other things obtaining regulatory approval of the acquisition or that other conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied the potential impact on the business of AppDynamics due to the uncertainty about the acquisition the retention of employees of AppDynamics and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate AppDynamics and to achieve expected benefits business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry customer markets and various geographic regions global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco most recent reports on Form and Form filed on September and November respectively.

8. YouTube leads as social media revenue source for leading publishers. But traffic also vital.

Publishers are receiving far less money than might have been expected from placing their content on the distribution platforms owned by companies including Facebook Google and Snapchat according to a new report.

On the one hand platforms like Facebook and Google drive huge traffic to publishers websites which they can monetize themselves through ads subscriptions or ecommerce.

A spokesperson for Snap which owns Snapchat said the company could comment directly on the findings having not seen the methodology used for the report but added that the figure cited was innacurate not representative of the revenue opportunities its Discover section offers publishers.

9. Stats and retrospective on @CowboyVC by @aileenlee: 🏢 55 companies 💰 $4.1Bn in value 👋🏼 12 liquidity events

While the unicorn term has become grating to some being part of a recognized outlier company is a source of pride for founders team members and investors in an intensely risky field.

After buying many urls we realized Cowboy represented exactly what we were looking for a spirit of the west independent thinking resilience substance without formality and being willing to brave the frontier with few resources and a small team.

Ted also has passions outside of work like seeing live music following our local sports teams and making Silicon Valley more accessible and livable he was one of the drivers behind the recently approved Measure A that created a bond to build more affordable housing in Santa Clara County.

10. Wherein I’m cast as a survivalist villain in the New Yorker. Really. ‘Last spring, as the Presidential campaign…

Last spring as the Presidential campaign exposed increasingly toxic divisions in America Antonio García Martínez a former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators solar panels and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

of another large tech company told me still not at the point where industry insiders would turn to each other with a straight face and ask what their plans are for some apocalyptic He went on having said that I actually think logically rational and appropriately He noted the vulnerabilities exposed by the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee and also by a hack on October which disrupted the Internet in North America and Western Europe.

The Federal Civil Defense Administration created by Harry Truman issued crisp instructions for surviving a nuclear strike including in any handy ditch or and lose your In Dwight Eisenhower broke ground on Project Greek Island a secret shelter in the mountains of West Virginia large enough for every member of Congress.