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1. SCVL:  $SCVL Shoe Carnival shares rally on earnings beat – MW

2. MEI:  $MEI Methode Electronics Tops Q1 EPS by 7c, Maintains Guidance- SI

3. APRI:  $APRI Apricus Biosciences Announces FDA Acknowledgement of Vitaros™ Class 2 NDA Resubmission – GN

4. VVUS:  $VVUS Vivus reports settlement with Dr. Reddy’s laboratories on qsymia patent litigation – Reuters

5. WDAY:  $WDAY Workday rides subscription revenue growth to Q2 earnings beat – ZDNet

6. BHP:  $BHP BHP Hires Barclays, Citi for U.S. Shale Gas Divestment: Sources – NYT

7. INCY:  $INCY ECHO-202 Adds to Incyte Momentum – BMO Capital – SI

8. LDOS:  $LDOS U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity Awards Leidos Prime Contract – PRN

9. COST:  $COST Costco Wholesale Aug Comps Up 7.3%; Net Sales Rise 10.0% – Nasdaq

10. AZN:  $AZN AstraZeneca sought to buy Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo last year: report – Reuters

11. EXPE:  $EXPE Expedia Says CFO Mark Okerstrom to Succeed Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO – SI

12. GE:  $GE GE’s new CEO preparing job cuts in bid to reduce costs: source – Reuters

13. LB:  $LB Victoria’ Secret parent L Brands August same-store sales fall 4% – MW

14. MACK: $MACK Merrimack Pharma One-for-Ten Reverse Stock Split Effective Sept. 6 – SI

15. DIS: $DIS Disney Is Planning Layoffs at ABC to Cut Costs – Fortune

16. LE: $LE Lands’ End Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 Results – GN

17. WDC:  $WDC Toshiba Fails to Pick Winner as Three Groups Bid for Chip Unit – BBG

18. WFC:  $WFC Wells Fargo: Nearly twice as many potentially fake accounts opened than originally thought

19. PETS:  $PETS Sick puppies, short selling and Pet Med – FT Alphaville

20. FIVE:  $FIVE Five Below, Inc. Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2017 Financial Results – GN

21. DG:  $DG Dollar General Beats Q2 EPS by 1c, Beats on Revenues; Boosts FY17 EPS Guidance – SI

22. CTRP:  $CTRP Stock Slides: 2Q Earnings Were OK, But? – Barron’s

23. BOX:  $BOX Box shares drop despite earnings beat – MW

24. CPB:  $CPB Campbell Soup shares dip 4.5% premarket after sales and profit miss – MW

25. CIEN:  $CIEN Ciena beats Q2 estimates, issues weak guidance; shares down – SA

26. GCO:  $GCO Lids parent Genesco plummets as company reports wider Q2 loss, issues profit warning – MW

27. SMTC:  $SMTC Semtech shares drop as revenue misses Street view – MW

28. DRYS:  $DRYS DryShips Collapses On Earnings Results & SEC Subpoena – SI

29. STDY:  $STDY SteadyMed Receives Refusal to File Letter from FDA for Trevyent® New Drug Application – GN

1. ADI:Nomura/Instinet Upgrades Analog Devices $ADI to Neutral

2. BOX:Mitsubishi UFJ Upgrades Box Inc to Buy $BOX

3. RIG:CapitalOne Upgrades Transocean $RIG to Overweight

1. MEI:$MEI reports FQ1 earnings of 55c EPS and $201.20M Revs –

2. TITN:$TITN reports FQ2 earnings of -4c EPS and $268.87M Revs –

3. GCO:$GCO reports FQ2 earnings of -10c EPS and $616.51M Revs –

4. LE:$LE reports FQ2 earnings of -12c EPS and $302.19M Revs –

5. LE:$LE reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $11.10M –

6. DG:$DG reports FQ2 earnings of $1.10 EPS and $5.83B Revs –

7. DG:$DG reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $0.86M –

8. CIEN:$CIEN reports FQ3 earnings of 51c EPS and $728.72M Revs –

9. CPB:$CPB reports FQ4 earnings of 52c EPS and $1.66B Revs –

10. GLNG:$GLNG reports FQ2 earnings of -73c EPS and $28.41M Revs –

1. WFC:CNBC: Wells Fargo says there were nearly twice as many potentially fake accounts opened than originally thought $WFC

2. OTIC:Otonomy $OTIC Investors: Cowen & Co. Reiterates “Buy” Rating, Sees $9.0/Share

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7. MOMO:$MOMO Goldman Sachs initiated the company with a Buy and $56 price target, shares up $3.00 in the pre @HalftimeReport

8. MEI:Methode Electronics beats by $0.07, beats on revenue

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10. AMD:$AMD TOP CHANGES:

11. DXTR:$DXTR announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. FDA to use its MicroCutter 5/80 Stapler and MicroCutter 30

12. XXII:Flying under the radar…until now $XXII #smallcap #tobacco @_xxiicentury @irthcomm…

13. EURGBP:Actualizacion Venta de EURGBP $EURGBP

14. SCVL:$SCVL Susquehanna raises PT to $19 from $18

15. GCO:Genesco misses by $0.02, misses on revenue

1. AstraZeneca sought to buy Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo last year: report

2. Dr. Paul DeSantis on Twitter

3. SteadyMed Receives Refusal to File Letter from FDA for Trevyent® New Drug Application

1. 1. My team at Open Markets and I are leaving New America

After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.

Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.

willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

2. New America’s Response to the New York Times:

New York Times story alleges that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release.

After more than years of doing strong policy work at New America Open position is not news to Google.

For example one of our other programs Future Tense will be hosting several events later this year on the dangers of monopolies.

3. A note from Andy Rubin:

One of the most important jobs of a founder is to recognize when things are going quite right and make the necessary decisions and take action to correct them before customers are impacted.

Founders are often faced with thousands of daily to keep their companies on delivering products into the right markets at precisely the right time.

We continue to believe deeply in our vision and the innovation we are bringing to life via our Home Phone and Camera products.

4. I wonder how many researchers at other Google-funded think-tanks will resign in protest. My prediction: zero.

After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.

Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.

willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

5. Washington think tank that is in no way influenced by its funders named its conference room ‘Eric Schmidt Ideas Lab’

After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.

Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.

willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

6. These emails 100% corroborate the NYT report and are also what we reported on @theintercept today

In order to provide greater clarity and context to the issues raised in the New York Times article dated Wednesday August New America is releasing in its entirety email correspondence from its President and CEO Slaughter to the former director of Open Markets Barry Lynn.

The first email quoted in the New York Times is from June a full year ago.

Subsequently we continued to support the work of Open Markets while asking Barry to abide by institutional norms of transparency and collegiality.

7. 21.9 million comments submitted to @FCC supporting #NetNeutrality! Deadline for comments is TODAY.

You have until midnight Eastern Time tomorrow night Wednesday to file comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband service and roll back net neutrality rules.

Many comments are apparently from spam bots and form letters but Chairman Ajit Pai proposal to undo net neutrality rules has received massive attention.

In a Congressional hearing a Democratic lawmaker pressed Pai to detail what kind of comments would change his mind about rolling back net neutrality rules.

8. No word on how many accounts were targeted.

As always we encourage people to be vigilant about the security of their account and exercise caution if they encounter any suspicious activity such as unrecognized incoming calls texts and emails.

Phone numbers and emails are important personal identifiers and potential hackers can find out a lot of information about people by investigating them.

With an email address and a telephone number it not difficult to cross reference information online to find out more about a target even a celebrity said privacy expert Jessy Irwin.

9. The Essential Phone has no logos, but in exchange they get to send your drivers license to everyone.

Last night some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received an email asking for a copy of their license ostensibly to verify their address in an attempt to prevent fraud.

We spoke with one of the customers who received the email Professor Ron Schnell who also happens to know quite a lot about digital forensics he served as the CTO on Rand presidential campaign.

What appears to have happened is that Essential had a list of customers it needed to verify to prevent fraud so it sent them an email requesting more information.

10. Great story, and man did I end up hating its hotel-robbing protagonist.

On a warm Phoenix night five years ago Aaron Cashatt walked down the hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel trying to move casually despite the adrenaline and methamphetamine surging through his bloodstream.

When the electric shock switched off his muscle control however found out real fast that I As Cashatt tells it the cops handcuffed arrested and booked him without even allowing him to change clothes leaving him to sit in his own excrement for the next four hours.

She drove for half an hour toward the Mexican border through the cotton and date fields and onto a road that seemed to end suddenly in a sea of dust nothing in sight but sand scrub and the highway rolling past behind her as she faced a sprawling prison complex.