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1. NBRV:  $NBRV Nabriva novel antibiotic meets goals in late-stage bacterial pneumonia study – STAT

2. ITRI, SSNI:  $SSNI Itron $ITRI Acquires Silver Spring Networks at $16.25/Sh Cash; Deal Valued at ~$830M

3. PSTI:  $PSTI Pluristem stock jumps 21% premarket after FDA grants CLI treatment fast-track designation – MW

4. NOC, OA:  $OA Northrop Grumman $NOC to Buy Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion in Cash – WSJ

5. PTIE:  $PTIE National Institute on Drug Abuse Awards Pain Therapeutics $2.2 Million Grant – GN

6. BLDP:  $BLDP Ballard Power Receives Purchase Order from Nisshinbo for Development Program – SI

7. RAD, WBA:  $RAD Walgreens $WBA Said to Tweak Rite Aid Deal to Clinch U.S. Approval – BBG

8. MAGS:  $MAGS Magal Secures Over $5M in Orders for Security Solutions for Several Correctional Facilities

9. OCX:  $OCX OncoCyte Reports Positive Study Results of DetermaVu™ Lung Cancer Diagnostic Test

10. SNGX:  $SNGX Soligenix Reports $1.5M NCI SBIR Grant Award for Phase 3 Clinical Trial of SGX301 – SI

11. UPL:  $UPL Fir Tree to pursue strategic alternatives for Ultra Petroleum Corp. – Reuters

12. TRXC:  $TRXC TransEnterix, Inc. Reports Progress on Senhance FDA Submission – BW

13. BIDU, STX:  $STX Seagate Technology, Baidu $BIDU Sign Strategic Cooperation Deal – Nasdaq

14. NOK:  $NOK Nokia says to get sales boost after patent ruling – Reuters

15. CANF:  $CANF Can-Fite Files Patent Application to Treat Cytokine Release Syndrome – Pharmiweb

16. SNAP:  $SNAP Snapchat Removes Al Jazeera Channel in Saudi Arabia – WSJ

17. TEVA:  $TEVA Teva Announces Sale of Remaining Assets in Specialty Global Women’s Health Portfolio for $1.38B

18. GM:  $GM Canadian Union to Strike at GM SUV Plant – WSJ – WSJ

19. DSKE: $DSKE Daseke, Inc. Commences 4.4M Common Stock Offering – SI

20. GTHX: $GTHX G1 Therapeutics Added to Russell 2000®, 3000® and Microcap® Indexes – GN

21. KMDA: $KMDA Kamada Announces CFO Transition – GN

22. ALKS: $ALKS Patients Switched to ARISTADA® Showed Significant Improvement in Schizophrenia Symptoms – BW

23. CSII: $CSII Cardiovascular Systems Announces Anticipated Revenue Impact from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

24. EFX:  $EFX Carson Block files lawsuit against Equifax – FT

25. APDN:  $APDN Applied DNA Sciences Files Form S-3 Registration Statement

26. HMNY:  $HMNY Form S-3 Helios & Matheson Analyt – SI

1. AMAT:RBC Capital upgrades Applied Materials

2. ASML:Susquehanna upgrades ASML

3. BP:BMO Capital Upgrades BP $BP to Outperform

4. CAT:UBS Upgrades Caterpillar $CAT to Buy, “More Room For The CAT To Run”

5. INFY:Goldman Sachs upgrades Infosys

1. BRKS:Brooks Automation was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Needham $BRKS

2. FINL:Finish Line downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at Piper Jaffray $FINL

3. PNM:Williams Capital Downgrades PNM Resources $PNM to Sell

4. REN:Resolute Energy Corp was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at BMO Capital $REN

5. SN:Sanchez Energy downgraded at Piper Jaffray on leverage concerns

6. TCMD:BTIG Downgrades Tactile Systems Technology to Hold $TCMD

7. TDOC:Teladoc was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Robert W. Baird $TDOC

1. STNG:$STNG reports FQ2 earnings of -9c EPS and $118.42M Revs –

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2. NVDA:$NVDA Nvidia PT Raised to $210 at BofAML on Data Center, Volta

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4. ITRI:$ITRI Itron to Acquire Silver Spring Networks to Accelerate Smart Grid and Smart City Innovation and Growth From our Stock News Alerts App

5. BA:$BA: Most Important Boeing News In August: ICBM Replacement:

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9. UTX:$UTX Northrop Grumman to buy missile maker Orbital for $7.8 billion, create new business sector Now on

10. EFX:Spoke to a friend who is a top cyber security expert at a major bank this weekend. Said $EFX breach was pure stupidity or negligence

11. PNC:#PNC #at strategic point to invest in artificial intelligence, robotics. Read more:

12. ORCL:Insider Selling: Oracle Corporation $ORCL Director Sells $188,812.50 in Stock

13. JAGX:$JAGX offering

14. SILVER:note @federalreserve is now dumping BILLIONS in naked paper $gold $silver to bring metals down for wednesday……as usual

15. RARE:$RARE to buy $DMTX for $5.50/share cash

1. Walgreens Said to Tweak Rite Aid Deal to Clinch U.S. Approval

2. Ultragenyx Proposes to Acquire Dimension Therapeutics for $5.50 Per Share in Cash (NASDAQ:RARE)

3. Whole Foods Shows What Economists Don’t Know

4. Christian Fromhertz on Twitter

5. Nabriva novel antibiotic meets goals in late-stage bacterial pneumonia study

6. Patients Switched to Alkermes’ ARISTADA® Showed Significant Improvement in Schizophrenia Symptoms After Inadequate Response or Intolerance to INVEGA SUSTENNA®

7. Nokia says to get sales boost after patent ruling

1. CNN confirms Mueller had a search warrant for Facebook – and they turned over Russian buyers and ads. More to come.

Facebook did not give copies of the ads to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees when it met with them last week on the grounds that doing so would violate their privacy policy sources with knowledge of the briefings said.

Mark Warner the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told CNN last week that Facebook had not turned over the ads to Congress.

Warner has also called Facebook review the tip of the iceberg and suggested that more work needs to be done in order to ascertain the full scope of Russia use of social media.

2. Facebook as a geopolitical actor. Our look at how it has developed a diplomatic wing to foster growth overseas.

government has said Facebook agreed to help create a new communications channel with the Na Son Press Populous developing countries like Vietnam are where the company is looking to add its next billion customers and to bolster its ad business.

But in recent years events as varied as the Arab Spring elections in France and confusion in Indonesia over the religion of the president have awakened governments to how they have lost some control over online speech commerce and politics on their home turf.

Africa where many people are only just beginning to get online is a greenfield for internet companies like Adriane Ohanesian for The New York Times Correction September An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of head of public policy in Europe.

3. Legitimate version of CCleaner distributed by Avast from Aug till Sep 2017 contained a multi-stage malware payload

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin Ross Gibb Warren Mercer Matthew Molyett and Craig Williams Update CCleaner Cloud version is also reported to be affected.

On September while conducting customer beta testing of our new exploit detection technology Cisco Talos identified a specific executable which was triggering our advanced malware protection systems.

The requests also leverage HTTPS but ignore all security errors as the server currently returns a SSL certificate that was issued to the subdomain defined in the Host header field.

4. Apple’s always lumped in with other 5 tech giants. But only Apple actively protects your privacy from adtech scums.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention collects statistics on resource loads as well as user interactions such as taps clicks and text entries.

A machine learning model is used to classify which top domains have the ability to track the user based on the collected statistics.

Check to make sure that you relying on cookies and other storage to persist if the user does not interact directly with your website on a regular basis.

5. Tech is making its way into some Amish communities, pushing them — sometimes unwillingly — into the 21st century

There are worries about pornography about whether social networks will lead sons and daughters to date friends and about connecting to a world of seemingly limitless possibilities.

The internet also threatens another Amish bonding agent For a society in which formal education ends after eighth grade youngsters learn a trade or craft alongside a relative or other member of the community.

There are probably successful Amish businesses in the Lancaster area many of them enterprises said Donald Kraybill a retired professor at Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.

6. Missed this yesterday, but Facebook said Messenger stories have only 70 million users, meaning 95% of users avoid it

Up to million people use the feature each and every day to post video and photo updates that disappear in hours according to Head of Messenger David Marcus.

And while Messenger remains in the early stages of making it a major hub for customer service clear Marcus has huge ambitions there.

Charlene Li principal analyst and founder of the San Altimeter Group suggests the virtual assistant remains a huge trove of untapped potential.

7. $fb worried more public disclosure would disrupt Mueller’s probe & precedent. W/ @ByronTau & @shaneharris

ET Facebook has handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller detailed records about the Russian ad purchases on its platform that go beyond what the company shared with Congress last week according to people familiar with the matter.

The information Facebook shared with Mueller included copies of the ads and details about the accounts that bought them and the targeting criteria they used the people familiar with the matter said.

Facebook policy dictates it would only turn over stored contents of any.

8. SoftBank is basically an IPO incubator at this point

More than half of the new funding came from SoftBank Chief Executive Officer Stewart Butterfield said in an interview in London Monday.

But Butterfield said the additional capital will also help give large clients as well as existing and future employees confidence that Slack is here to stay.

Vision Fund raised almost billion this year and is blanketing the venture capital market and tech sector with the money.

9. Over 50 countries have passed laws to more strictly control the web. Big, important Facebook story via @paulmozur:

government has said Facebook agreed to help create a new communications channel with the Na Son Press Populous developing countries like Vietnam are where the company is looking to add its next billion customers and to bolster its ad business.

But in recent years events as varied as the Arab Spring elections in France and confusion in Indonesia over the religion of the president have awakened governments to how they have lost some control over online speech commerce and politics on their home turf.

Africa where many people are only just beginning to get online is a greenfield for internet companies like Adriane Ohanesian for The New York Times Correction September An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of head of public policy in Europe.

10. People shouldn’t outsource their critical reading skills to Garland.

effort to influence voters through Facebook and other social media is a focus of special counsel Robert investigation into the election and possible links to President Donald associates according to officials familiar with the matter.

team of prosecutors and FBI agents is zeroing in on how Russia spread fake and damaging information through social media and are seeking additional evidence from companies like Facebook and Twitter about what happened on their networks said one of the officials who asked not to be identified discussing the ongoing investigation.

Alphabet Google unit said in a statement always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and seen no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our A person familiar with the matter said the company been called to testify on the topic.