$TSLA Tesla’s stock drops after Model S fails to qualify for top safety award

1. HSNI:  $HSNI Liberty Interactive to acquire HSN in a deal with an enterprise value of $2.6 billion – MW

2. BGNE, CELG:  $BGNE Celgene $CELG to buy BeiGene stake, to develop tumor cancer treatment – Reuters

3. IPXL:  $IPXL Impax Laboratories Granted FDA Approval & Launch of Additional Strengths of Generic Focalin

4. MZOR:  $MZOR Mazor Robotics Reports 19 System Orders During 2Q17; Expects Record Quarterly Revenue – SI

5. MTBC:  $MTBC MTBC Announces Partnership with Winpoint Health – SI

6. MLHR:  $MLHR Herman Miller Reports Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2017 Results – PRN

7. COST:  $COST Costco shares up 2.5% after June sales rise – MW

8. ZUMZ:  $ZUMZ Zumiez June same store sales rises 5.3 percent – Reuters

9. VRA:  $VRA Cohen’s Point72 Shows New 5.1% Stake in Vera Bradley – SI

10. AMZN, DISH: $DISH Would Amazon $AMZN, Dish Partnership Make Sense? – TheStreet

11. T, TWX:  $T Brazil’s Pay TV Law May Push AT&T to Make Divestments for Time Warner $TWX Deal – CTFN

12. T, TWX:  $TWX Trump may use CNN as “leverage” in AT&T-Time Warner merger $T – NYT

13. BIDU:  $BIDU China’s Baidu being probed after CEO tests driverless car on public roads – reuters

14. SHPG:  $SHPG Shire submits investigational NDA to FDA for SHP654 for treatment of Hemophilia A – GN

15. BMY:  $BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces FDA Approval for ORENCIA to Treat Psoriatic Arthritis – SI

16. AAL:  $AAL Qatar Airways aims to start buying American Airlines shares ‘soon’ – Reuters

17. MRK:  $MRK FDA puts hold on Merck multiple myeloma trials after deaths – Reuters

18. AMZN, DISH:  $AMZN Amazon, Dish $DISH and a Shared Vision of a Wireless ‘Internet of Things’ – WSJ

19. AAPL:  $AAPL Apple to use OLED screens in all new iPhones launching in 2018: sources – Nikkei

20. DOC:  $DOC Physicians Realty Trust Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Shares – SI

21. NOK:  $NOK Nokia and Xiaomi ink patent and equipment deal, Xiaomi buys Nokia patents – TC

22. FRED:  $FRED Fred’s June sales decline more than expected – MW

23. TSLA:  $TSLA Tesla’s stock drops after Model S fails to qualify for top safety award – MW

24. CATO:  $CATO Cato 5-week Comps. Down 16%; Q2 Earnings To Be Significantly Below Prior Year – MI

25. LB:  $LB L Brands June Comps Fall 9% – SI

26. YUMC:  $YUMC Yum China shares drop as Pizza Hut sales disappoint – FT

27. PSMT:  $PSMT PriceSmart Q3 Earnings & Revenues Miss Estimates – Nasdaq

28. AZZ:  $AZZ AZZ Inc. Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2018 – PRN

29. TAHO:  $TAHO Tahoe Resources says Guatemalan lower court issues ruling on Co’s mining license – Reuters

30. EGLT:  $EGLT Egalet’s stock plunges toward record low after stock offering plan – MW

1. GPC:UPDATE: Goldman Sachs Downgrades Genuine Parts $GPC to Sell

2. MAA:UBS Downgrades Mid-America Apartment Communities $MAA to Neutral

3. ORLY:$ORLY downgraded both @ CS & MS to Neutral

4. PDCO:Patterson downgraded to Sell at Stifel; shares down 1.35%

1. AZZ:$AZZ reports FQ1 earnings of 51c EPS and $208.55M Revs –

1. LB:$LB -7.4% … another dead cat retail bounce gets slammed back down

2. CELG:BMO – $CELG PD-1 Acquisition Vaults CELG Into the IO Fray $BGNE

3. BGNE:$BGNE deal terms shockingly good – Baird. Raises PT to $58 from $44

4. JONE:$JONE has a been slow motion car crash and few should be surprised.

1. Amazon, Dish and a Shared Vision of a Wireless ‘Internet of Things’

2. Shire submits investigational New Drug Application to FDA for Gene Therapy candidate SHP654 for treatment of Hemophilia A

3. Celgene Corporation Enters Into Global Strategic Immuno-Oncology Collaboration with BeiGene to Advance PD-1 Inhibitor Program for Solid Tumor Cancers (NASDAQ:CELG)

4. dough on Twitter

5. QVC buying longtime rival Home Shopping Network in deal valued at $2.1 billion

1. Both men and women VCs display the same bias in their questioning, inadvertently favoring male entrepreneurs

Since we used actual TechCrunch Disrupt transcripts as the basis for the audio files we redacted the dialogue for any startup specifics and standardized the clips to control for variations in quality and stage.

Armed with the knowledge that promotion has advantages over prevention informed entrepreneurs can recognize question orientation and frame their responses to benefit their startups.

By posing a balance of promotion and prevention questions to men and women investors grant all startups an equal chance to display their worthiness and may even improve their own decision making in the process.

2. “I hope the industry continues to support women who speak up and shun men who do these things,” Sarah Kunst said:

The explosive allegations have brought the venture capital firm Caldbeck to the brink of collapse and have exposed the broader problem that men with wealth and influence are using their position to prey on women who are seeking funding and advice to build their careers and companies.

Alleged predatory behavior by a prominent venture capitalist has struck a cord on social media where women who have come forward have found deep support suggesting that the cone of silence that once protected perpetrators has cracked if not shattered.

I hope the industry continues to support women who speak up and shun men who do these things said entrepreneur Sarah Kunst who when discussing a possible job at Startups in received a message from McClure on Twitter that said in part I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you.

3. Tech industry celebrates maverick behavior, but @cherylyeoh’s story shows how culture can rationalize sexual assault

I had doubts publishing this but after talking to Sarah it is clear to me now that I just sit silently and trust that behavior will stop or that we can just file his misconduct under being This is about protecting other women who might otherwise be subjected to his future unwanted sexual advances.

After the meeting Khailee Dave and a few others including two other females decided to come over to my apartment to brainstorm about new Growth Distribution Accelerator Cerebro later rebranded as Distro Dojo and also a hashtag for MaGIC the organization that I was leading.

Separately they should survey their own partners associates and staff members on what behaviors they consider acceptable vs crossing boundaries and ask for admission of any wrong doings as a step to create awareness and as a reminder that there are severe consequences if they are caught violating company policy and abusing their position.

4. Canada recently launched a program that allows firms to have a position pre-approved and get visas within two weeks

5. DeepMind’s research office in Canada to be led by Richard Sutton – who literally wrote the book on RL.

Today thrilled to announce our next phase the opening of first ever international AI research office in Edmonton Canada in close collaboration with the University of Alberta UAlberta.

We publish in major international journals including three Nature papers in the past two years while many of our team maintain professorships and supervise students at Cambridge Oxford Imperial College London as well as MIT and beyond.

In the UK we feel helped played an important role in encouraging and supporting the AI community to flourish from and universities to new organisations like the Turing Institute and we hope that we can contribute to the success of pioneering centres of research too.

6. Fury over new Chinese Internet censorship: “nothing will make it through, will do away w AV artistic creation”

China latest maneuvre in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers bloggers media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing tightens control.

On Friday an industry association circulated new regulations that at least two auditors will with immediate effect be required to check all audiovisual content posted online from films to micro movies documentaries sports educational material and animation to ensure they adhere to core socialist values.

The rules which affect social media giants like Weibo Corp as well as small platforms that have thrived in China buzzing creative online space are the latest step toughening oversight ahead of the Communist Party Congress later this year when President Xi Jinping is expected to consolidate power.

7. More than 30 VCs are working to craft a “code of conduct” for the industry that defines inappropriate behavior:

Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.

8. For every woman on receiving end of sexist behavior there’s another woman the perpetrator treated decently” @espiers

You are expected to be the communicator and the nurturer whose primary function is to get everyone on the same page often at your own expense but you will be perceived as a serial compromiser with no backbone if you do that are supposed to be decisive but if you are you will be punished for not getting enough input from other people or being arrogant for not yourself.

clear that Sinha credits McClure with some of her early success and I believe her willingness to speak up on his behalf is coming from a place of bad faith.

But it adds little to the conversation because it has no bearing on the core problem which is that McClure harassed women who are not Sinha and this sort of behavior is enabled systemically in the tech industry.

9. Vantiv offers Worldpay deal valued at $10 billion, potentially beating out rival bidder J.P. Morgan Chase

By Updated July.

ET Vantiv appeared to ward off Morgan Chase in the pursuit of payments processor Group PLC saying it had cinched a billion takeover deal.

The proposed combination if successful would create a payments processing giant with a combined market value of more than billion.

10. As many as 44 states are now refusing to hand voter data over to the Trump administration, citing privacy concerns.

The tussle continues despite the fact that some of the desired data including whether individuals have voted in the past decade is set to become part of the public record separate from this situation.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach the commission vice chair has said SSNs could be used to determine how many people who are dead remain on voter rolls and whether they have recently voted for instance.

And EPIC explained that the Commission had already committed two egregious security directing state election officials to send voter records to an unsecure web site and proposing to publish partial SSNs that would enable identity theft and financial fraud.