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4. REPH: $REPH Recro Pharma Reports Top-Line Results from Phase III Safety Study of IV Meloxicam – SI
17. LNTH, TDW: $LNTH Lantheus Holdings Inc. will replace Tidewater Inc. $TDW in the S&P SmallCap 600
19. RAD, WBA: $RAD Walgreens $WBA, Rite Aid Certify Substantial Compliance with FTC Second Request – SI
25. P: $P Pandora shares whipsaw amid earnings, massive investment, boardroom shakeup and strategic review
32. SNY: $SNY Sanofi vows to limit 2017 price hikes to 5.4% as part of new ‘holistic’ policy – Fierce Pharma
33. VZ: $VZ Verizon does not see an urgent need to undertake a big strategic merger or acquisition – Reuters
41. DISCA: $DISCA Discovery Communications reports Q1 earnings below expectations as subscribers cut the cord
42. JCOM: $JCOM j2 Global Q1 2017 Results – SA
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3. IONS:$IONS data from Phase 3 NEURO-TTR study in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Q2
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- They released open data that gave us the opportunity to build an app to help the people of London.
- We built software for everything including realtime operational control to driver management to scheduling systems.
- In the future explain in more detail how smarter bus tech leads to better mobility and cities.
- Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat.
- John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting and clicking express to file your comment.
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- VIENNA Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech an Austrian court has ruled in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online trolling.
- The case comes as legislators around Europe are considering ways of forcing Facebook Google Twitter and others to rapidly remove hate speech or incitement to violence.
- Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said hate speech has no place on the platform and the company has published a policy paper on how it wants to work against false news.
- ET One of the most basic human activities writing is getting an assist from machines.
- Startup Grammarly uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help improve writing from basic spelling grammar and style to more advanced suggestions on tone and language.
- The San Francisco company has been.
- Alipay owned by Jack Ant Financial reached a deal that will let its users shop at million merchants served by payments processor First Data the companies said Monday in a joint statement.
- Apple mobile payments service can be used at million locations in the Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said last week on a call with analysts.
- Still Alipay which started in as an online payments processor for Alibaba Group Holding sites is entering a market much less reliant on mobile transactions than its home country.
- Michael Dell after closing the merger with EMC is investing in new ways to bolster his company lineup that provides gear and modern software for data centers.
- Looking for an edge against rivals such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise the venture unit called Dell Technologies Capital is likely to invest in new startups or perhaps more this year Darling said.
- But while that might have made sense in the past the deal created Dell Technologies a behemoth in the tech world in terms of sales and employees so it now time to highlight investments to others the executives said.
- In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app including photo sharing and a lightweight version of the Explore tab.
- With the exanded mobile web version users can skip the app wait time data costs and storage needs while still getting the basic functionality.
- Since Snapchat is so and Snap Inc prioritized building for international markets and Android users its app work as well in the developing world.
- hope to draw from the impressive talent pool as we grow helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Corridor Travis Kalanick embattled CEO wrote in a blog post published this morning.
- Though Uber rose to prominence offering a smartphone app for hailing rides it has rapidly embraced the idea of driverless cars over the past few years building a hub dedicated to the technology near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and purchasing the San Francisco autonomous vehicle company Otto for an estimated million.
- But its plans were thrown into doubt when Waymo sued the company accusing Anthony Levandowski an Otto founder and former Googler of stealing trade secrets related to the lidar sensors that help driverless cars view the world around them.