PRE-MARKET MOVERS
1. SNCR: 
$SNCR Siris Capital Shows New 12.93% Stake in Synchronoss; Discussed ‘Take-Private’ Deal – SI
$SNCR Siris Capital Shows New 12.93% Stake in Synchronoss; Discussed ‘Take-Private’ Deal – SI18. ANTM, CI: $CI Anthem $ANTM to file a petition with the Supreme Court regarding Cigna acquisition – MW
$CI Anthem $ANTM to file a petition with the Supreme Court regarding Cigna acquisition – MW21. CBS: $CBS CBS Delivers Strong Q1 but Profit Falls on Radio Sale Adjustment, Super Bowl Comparison
$CBS CBS Delivers Strong Q1 but Profit Falls on Radio Sale Adjustment, Super Bowl Comparison24. IMMU, SGEN: $IMMU Seattle Genetics $SGEN terminates license agreement with Immunomedics – Reuters
$IMMU Seattle Genetics $SGEN terminates license agreement with Immunomedics – Reuters26. MRK: $MRK Merck Announces EC Approval of KEYTRUDA for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory cHL – SI
$MRK Merck Announces EC Approval of KEYTRUDA for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory cHL – SI33. BABA, NCLH: $NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line, Alibaba Group $BABA Partner to Enter the China Cruise Market – SI
$NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line, Alibaba Group $BABA Partner to Enter the China Cruise Market – SI43. FLR: 
$FLR Fluor Corp. Cuts Outlook – RTT
$FLR Fluor Corp. Cuts Outlook – RTT
UPGRADES
2. REGN:$REGN upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canaccord
DOWNGRADES
1. NVIV:$NVIV downgraded to Outperform from Strong Buy at Raymond James. PT $6 from $10
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Technology News
- The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in Charleston in and James Jackson who fatally stabbed an elderly black man with a sword in the streets of New York earlier this year.
- Based in San Francisco Cloudflare operates more than data centers spread across the world serving as a sort of middleman for websites speeding up delivery of a content and protecting it from several kinds of attacks.
- In a post the architect Andrew Auernheimer said he had personal relationships with people at Cloudflare and they had assured him the company would work to protect the site in a variety of ways including by not turning over data to European courts.
- Many life insurance companies are exploring how to use additional data statistical models artificial intelligence and other techniques to help make quick decisions to ease the policy buying process and boost sales.
- Time and testing will tell which new approaches prove effective says Robert Kerzner president and CEO of LIMRA a life insurance trade group.
- Ricanek worked on facial recognition technology for the FBI Biometric Center of Excellence and is a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
- Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
- Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
- trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
- The site will focus on general news coverage particularly politics at first he said but his goal is that it will cover more niche topics like Bitcoin and dog breeding.
- We are hopeful to get some money from other sources but at this stage really focused on the crowdfunding because I think if people are willing to support this in concept even before we get started a good sign that going to be able to attract an audience.
- Maybe you interview someone and you write the story in a very traditional way but you also publish the transcript and even the audio so that the community can actually if interested and I think many people will be check those against the story and say this is a fair quote not out of Or this person was joking when they said that but written it up as if they were serious and we should probably edit that to make it more clear that a There are lots of things like that no reason to exclude people from helping out with that sort of thing.
- A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts according to a report published Wednesday.
- Security researchers demonstrated this dark side of last year when they stalked US Representative Ted Lieu using nothing more than his cell phone number and access to an network.
- In January thieves exploited weaknesses to bypass authentication banks used to prevent unauthorized withdrawals from online accounts the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
8. YouTube is spending $100M+ on a half dozen series available for free to all users. Scoop w/@mhbergen
- Comedian Kevin Hart host Ellen DeGeneres and the comedy duo Rhett Link are producing unscripted shows that will debut this year YouTube will announce at an event for advertisers in New York Thursday.
- mission at the annual Newfront presentations in New York where online companies are introducing their latest initiatives this week is to convince marketers to shift more ad money to the web from TV.
- two biggest players in the Newfronts are YouTube and Hulu yet neither tells you exactly where your ad ran said Ben Winkler chief investment officer of OMD USA part of the Omnicom Group advertising company.
- Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
- Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
- trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
