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1. SCYX: $SCYX SCYNEXIS to Host a Conference Call to Discuss Lead Anti-Infective Candidate SCY-078 Data – GN

2. PHG:  $PHG Philips profit jumps; full-year outlook unchanged – MW

3. SRPT:  $SRPT Sarepta on Watch as Barron’s Suggests Shares Could Double – SI

4. MRK, PDLI:  $PDLI PDL BioPharma to be paid $19.5 million by Merck $MRK to settle Keytruda patent suit – MW

5. ASML:  $ASML ASML disappointed that Nikon has opted for unnecessary and unfounded legal action over patents

6. ITW:  $ITW Illinois Tool Works Raises 2017 Guidance; Q1 Profit Beats Estimates – Nasdaq

7. ACHN:  $ACHN Achillion Pharma Reports Additional Phase 2 Results Including 100% SVR24 for Genotype 1 HCV

8. TRUE: $TRUE TrueCar Announces Proposed Public Offering – GN

9. KMB:  $KMB Kimberly-Clark Beats Q1 Earnings, Lags on Revenue – Zacks

10. NVO, XOMA:  $XOMA Xoma receieves notice to terminate license agreement from Novo Nordisk $NVO – Reuters

11. CYOU:  $CYOU Changyou Reports First Quarter 2017 Unaudited Financial Results – PRN

1. ALK:Alaska Air: Cowen upgrades to Outperform

2. ATI:Berenberg Upgrades Allegheny Technologies $ATI to Hold

3. DLTR:Johnson Rice Upgrades Dollar Tree $DLTR to Buy

4. XLNX:Xilinx: Credit Suisse upgrades to Outperform

1. BCR:$BCR reports FQ1 earnings of $2.87 EPS and $938.80M Revs –

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3. HLX:$HLX reports FQ1 earnings of -11c EPS and $104.53M Revs –

4. HAS:$HAS reports FQ1 earnings of 43c EPS and $849.66M Revs –

5. NSH:$NSH reports FQ1 earnings of 39c EPS and $18.11M Revs –

6. NS:$NS reports FQ1 earnings of 49c EPS and $487.43M Revs –

7. HAL:$HAL reports FQ1 earnings of 4c EPS and $4.28B Revs –

8. CHCO:$CHCO reports FQ1 earnings of $1.04 EPS and $48.95M Revs –

9. KMB:$KMB reports FQ1 earnings of $1.53 EPS and $4.48B Revs –

10. TNC:$TNC reports FQ1 earnings of 31c EPS and $191.06M Revs –

1. BIIB:$BIIB Final Phase 3 Study Data Show SPINRAZA Significantly Improved Motor Function in Children With Later-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy

2. BCR:BAML sees $BCR / $BDX deal very bullish for Med-Tech, expects more mega deals over next 12-24 months, 5th large cap consolidation in 3 yrs

3. AKTX:$AKTX Demonstrates Positive Response with Coversin in Ongoing Phase 2 PNH Trial and in Additional Clinical Targets

4. CELG:@BigChodu @4thQuarterCap @scottrade Wait till $INCY $VRTX $CELG etc blow up on valuations, despite good Ph3 data 😍😍…

1. Akari Therapeutics Demonstrates Positive Response with Coversin in Ongoing Phase 2 PNH Trial and in Additional Clinical Targets

2. Biogen Hopes New Spine Drug Data Convinces Insurers to Loosen Patient Access, Boosts Sales

3. Cara Therapeutics Announces Positive Data From Quantitative Phase 1 Trial Measuring Respiratory Safety of I.V. CR845

1. The meeting began ominously. “So, I’ve heard you’ve been breaking some of our rules,” Apple’s CEO told Uber’s CEO

Taxi drivers and others who supported de efforts to halt expansion rallying outside City Hall in Manhattan in Hiroko New York Times In some places Uber employees were also told to create computer programs known as scripts that would automatically vote for the service in surveys.

Kalanick and a top lieutenant Emil Michael sometimes hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio who is also an investor and Jay Z whose wife Beyoncé performed for Uber employees at a poolside party in Las Vegas in.

And just days after a former employee published a blog post in February detailing sexual harassment at Uber Kalanick attended Vanity Academy Awards party in Hollywood stunning some colleagues with his perceived insensitivity.

2. Something I never thought I’d see, but I am in love with what @Twitch is doing here!

But for every streamer that achieves partnership there are thousands more striving toward that goal many of them sharing amazing content with strong passionate communities but without access to tools that would allow their viewers to help support them.

While Affiliates will eventually have access to basic versions of our tools including Subscriptions Game Commerce and Advertising we will continue developing additional features just for Partners that are tailored for nurturing the larger communities they manage.

When we launch qualified streamers will be notified via email Notification and an announcement in the upper left corner of your dashboard.

3. On how the Russian government recruits local hackers: “It’s a knock on your door and maybe a knock on your ass.”

Minutes later they took the hacker away into custody a subdued end to an international cyber drama that involved the highest levels of the US government Russian spies a global cybercrime syndicate and hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans.

Once the group had gained access to Yahoo its targets included an economic development minister of a country bordering Russia an investigative reporter who worked for Russian newspaper Kommersant and a managing director of a US private equity firm court documents show.

Ruslan Stoyanov the former head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity company recently went public with claims that the Russian government systematically recruits hackers from the criminal underground and gives them immunity in exchange for their services in a letter published by the independent television station Dozhd.

4. Writing a story on tech workers screwed by H-1B visa system helped me understand the anger & passion of Trump voters

In a Booz Allen report commissioned by the Immigration and Naturalization Services highlighted a worrying trend employers were taking advantage of loose regulation to replace domestic workers with cheaper imported labor in entry level positions.

In January Microsoft said in a regulatory filing that immigration policy changes or restrictions inhibit our ability to adequately staff our research and development That month Silicon Valley was fretting over the direction of the debate on visas companies like Infosys and Tata took a massive hit on their stock prices.

On a call with reporters this week to introduce a new executive order Trump administration officials directly criticized outsourcing companies for their use of visas saying their strategies are from how the program is generally pictured.

5. It is amusing how frustrated the FBI is by what is so obvious to outside observers.

Minutes later they took the hacker away into custody a subdued end to an international cyber drama that involved the highest levels of the US government Russian spies a global cybercrime syndicate and hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans.

Once the group had gained access to Yahoo its targets included an economic development minister of a country bordering Russia an investigative reporter who worked for Russian newspaper Kommersant and a managing director of a US private equity firm court documents show.

Ruslan Stoyanov the former head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity company recently went public with claims that the Russian government systematically recruits hackers from the criminal underground and gives them immunity in exchange for their services in a letter published by the independent television station Dozhd.

6. Tim Cook like The Godfather right here.

Many of the people interviewed for this article who revealed previously unreported details of life asked to remain anonymous because they had signed nondisclosure agreements with Uber or feared damaging their relationship with the chief executive.

When the company struggled Kalanick and a partner took the tax dollars from employee paychecks which are supposed to be withheld and sent to the Internal Revenue Service and reinvested the money into the even as friends and advisers warned him the action was potentially illegal.

Travis Kalanick I came to know years ago was relentless in pursuit of his goals at the expense of those who supported him along the way deluded by his own embellished personal narrative and a serial prevaricator said Peter Yorke a former Red Swoosh adviser and a longtime tech executive.

7. Uber: not afraid of the wrath of governments; very afraid of the wrath of Apple.

Taxi drivers and others who supported de efforts to halt expansion rallying outside City Hall in Manhattan in Hiroko New York Times In some places Uber employees were also told to create computer programs known as scripts that would automatically vote for the service in surveys.

Kalanick and a top lieutenant Emil Michael sometimes hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio who is also an investor and Jay Z whose wife Beyoncé performed for Uber employees at a poolside party in Las Vegas in.

And just days after a former employee published a blog post in February detailing sexual harassment at Uber Kalanick attended Vanity Academy Awards party in Hollywood stunning some colleagues with his perceived insensitivity.

8. These workers watch horrifying, disturbing YouTube videos all day to flag what’s inappropriate. It’s breaking them.

On anonymous online forums raters swap instance looking up rap video lyrics to scan quickly for profanity or skipping through a clip in chunks instead of watching the entire thing.

But while only machine intelligence can grapple with scale as company execs and representatives have stressed again and again until anyone smart enough to distinguish say truly offensive speech from other forms of expression on its own such efforts will still need to rely on people.

Big companies across the tech industry employ temporary workers to participate in repetitive tasks meant to train AI systems according to multiple ad raters WIRED spoke with.

9. Nice example of a classic blog post formula: Now We Have Been Found Out, We Can And Must Do Better

Sure we have a Terms of Service Agreement and a Privacy Policy that our users agree they have read and understand before they even sign up but the reality is most of us myself included do take the time to thoroughly review them.

So we need to do better for our users and will from this point forward with clearer messaging on our website in our app and in our FAQs.

The rest will remain the same providing a killer service that gives you hours back in your day while protecting your privacy and security above all else.

10. “Now 12M additional videos of all types, including >100k featuring LGBTQ+ content-are available in Restricted Mode.”