$NVDA Nvidia partners with Uber, Volkswagen in self-driving technology | $STX, $MZOR, $KSS, $CROX, $BAX

1. SPCB:  $SPCB SuperCom to Develop Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrency Capabilities for Mobile Money Suite SuperPay

2. ABLX, NVO:  $ABLX Novo Nordisk’s $NVO $3.1 billion Ablynx bid rejected by Belgian biotech – Reuters

3. MYSZ:  $MYSZ My Size to Unveil its Evolutionary Body Measurement Technology at CES in Las Vegas

4. OTIV:  $OTIV OTI Announces Cryptocurrency Acceptance as a Legitimate Source of Purchase Payment – PRN

5. STX:  $STX Seagate Technology May Own Over 4% Of Ripple, No Credit From The Street – Seeking Alpha

6. ALDR, TEVA:  $ALDR Alder BioPharma Enters into EU Patent Settlement & Global License Agreement w Teva $TEVA – GN

7. MTNB:  $MTNB Matinas BioPharma Achieves Statistical Endpoint for Success in Phase 2a Clinical Study

8. WATT:  $WATT Energous Announces Wireless Charging 2.0 Integrated Circuit Solutions at CES – SI

9. MZOR:  $MZOR Mazor Robotics Received 27 System Orders During Q4 2017; Expects Record FY & Qtrly Revenue

10. ABLX, ARGX, NVO:  $ARGX Up following Novo’s $NVO takeover bid on $ABLX

11. KSS:  $KSS Kohl’s boosts full-year outlook on strong holiday sales, shares soar – CNBC

12. GCAP:  $GCAP GAIN Capital Continues Global Rollout of Bitcoin Trading – SI

13. NBIX:  $NBIX Neurocrine Biosciences Reports Prelim. 4Q Revenues of $94M, Prelim. FY17 Revenues of $161M; Offer…

14. CROX:  $CROX Crocs Lifts Q4 Revenue View Above Market Estimates; Backs FY17 Forecast – Nasdaq

15. BAX, MNK:  $MNK Mallinckrodt to Sell RECOTHROM and PREVELEAK to Baxter $BAX for $185M – SI

16. ACRS:  $ACRS Aclaris’ A-101 45% Topical Solution Meets Primary & All 2ndary Endpts in Two Ph 2 Trials – GN

17. ALNY:  $ALNY Alnylam retools Sanofi deal to take full control of patisiran – FierceBio

18. LULU:  $LULU Lululemon says holiday season sales better than it expected – Reuters

19. JD, VIPS:  $VIPS JDcom $JD reports a 5.5% stake in Vipshop as of December 29 – SI

20. NVDA:  $NVDA Nvidia partners with Uber, Volkswagen in self-driving technology – Reuters

21. BMY, FPRX:  $FPRX Five Prime Therapeutics Earns IND Milestone Payment Under Immune Collaboration w $BMY

22. LBCC, LTEA:  $LBCC Pivot to Blockchain Saves Iced-Tea Maker From Nasdaq Delisting $LTEA – BBG

23. OSTK:  $OSTK Overstock Gets $100 Million from Soros Fund for Blockchain and More – Coindesk

24. CELG:  $CELG Celgene to Buy Cancer-Drug Maker Impact for $1.1 Billion – BBG

25. GRMN: $GRMN Garmin Speak Plus mixes Amazon Alexa with a dash cam – Engadget

26. INTC:  $INTC Intel CEO’s Stock Sale Called Unusual by Private Securities Specialists – WSJ

27. AAPL:  $AAPL iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors – WSJ

28. PFE:  $PFE Pfizer to Cut 300 Jobs as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Research Ends – BBG

29. EXAS:  $EXAS Exact Sciences to report $265.5-266.5 million in revenue, 168 percent growth for 2017 – SI

30. RENN:  $RENN Blockchain, Truck Drivers and Renren – BBG “Plans for an ICO mask deeper issues at the flagging…

31. EDIT:  $EDIT Editas Medicine Reports on Recent Progress and Announces “EM22” Five-year Goals at JPM18

32. AXON:  $AXON Axovant shares plunge after key drug program scrapped – Reuters

1. ATI:Cowen Upgrades Allegheny Technologies $ATI to Outperform; Improved Set Up

2. CAT:Caterpillar rises on JPMorgan upgrade

3. EA:UPDATE: BMO Capital Upgrades Electronic Arts $EA to Outperform

4. SPLK:Barclays upgrades Splunk, ups price target

1. ALQA:UPDATE: H.C. Wainwright Downgrades Alliqua, Inc $ALQA to Neutral Following Acquisition

2. GPRO:GoPro Captures Downgrade Ahead Of CES, Analyst Expects Negative Preannouncement

3. GRUB:Wedbush Downgrades GrubHub Inc. $GRUB to Neutral; Sees Peak Valuation

4. MKTX:Goldman Sachs Downgrades MarketAxess $MKTX to Neutral Citing Potential For Slow Market Share Gains …

5. SNAP:$SNAP downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies

6. TIG:Canaccord Genuity Downgrades TiGenix NV $TIG to Hold Following Acquisition

1. HELE:$HELE reports FQ3 earnings of $2.52 EPS and $453.09M Revs –

1. SPX:$spx futures -3 handles as it got super extended. A day or so off would be best

2. ETH:Price Alert: Ethereum 9.56% 1h change $ETH – Current Price: 0.07927546 REP | More #ETH Info #CryptoPress

3. SGMO:$SGMO says: “…we will also progress our middle pipeline into the clinic, advance our novel delivery #platforms (p…

4. OTIV:$OTIV *DJ OTI Announces Cryptocurrency Acceptance as a Legitimate Source of Purchase Payment

5. NVDA:Nvidia up more than 100% the past year! @jimcramer $NVDA

6. P:Pandora Media Inc $P Receives Consensus Rating of “Hold” from Brokerages #stocks

7. CAT:I’m sorry, let me get this straight, JPM who was N on $CAT for last 2yrs as the stock went from $60 – $160/sh with…

8. MYSZ:$MYSZ looks like early continuation from fri move in Tel Aviv –

9. WFC:$WFC

10. SNY:@PrezCamacho $SNY took a sensible decision based on the info they had, and landscape they faced back then. Not thei…

11. SNAP:We are now on week six of Snapchat’s big redesign still not being available to most users $SNAP

12. WATT:$WATT + Energous Unveils Industry-First Wireless Charging 2.0 Integrated Circuit Solutions at CES 2018

13. KMB:Dorsey & Whitney Trust CO LLC Sells 842 Shares of Kimberly Clark Corp $KMB

14. ACOR:$ACOR Biotie acquisition almost a complete dud. SYN120 fails in PD P2

15. KSS:Kohl’s Corp. $KSS Holiday Comps Rose 6.9%; Boosts FY17 EPS Guidance

1. Five Prime Therapeutics Earns IND Milestone Payment Under Immune Checkpoint Pathways Discovery Collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Announces that BMS has Extended the Research Term of this Collaboration for a Second Time

2. Acorda Announces 2017 AMPYRA Net Sales and Provides 2018 Financial Guidance at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

3. A new Alzheimer’s drug, once worth billions, is headed for the trash

4. Goldman, Citi Are Said to Be in Lead for Top Roles in Aramco IPO

5. Meg Tirrell on Twitter

6. Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Significantly Improved Recurrence-Free Survival Compared to Placebo as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Stage 3 Resected High-Risk Melanoma (EORTC1325/KEYNOTE-054)

7. Revance Announces Interim Phase 2a Results for RT002 in Treating Plantar Fasciitis

8. Amicus Therapeutics Provides Full-Year 2018 Strategic Outlook and Financial Guidance

9. ‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

10. Intel CEO’s Stock Sale Called Unusual by Private Securities Specialists

Technology News

1. “An ERC20 Ethereum token with just a whitepaper worth $14 billion? Welcome to crypto 2018.”

As far as I know the main net been launched yet Roy van Kaathoven a coder simply interested in the project and not from Tron tells us.

The proposed solution by a number of projects and Tron appears to be no different is the employment of various decentralized technologies such as IPFS and blockchain tech to create distributed data storage.

It is unclear whether Tron follows the exact same approach but the whitepaper does seem to suggest so mentioning hash tags and stating their first phase is the implementation of IPFS to be followed by a blockchain.

2. Adults are addicts – not only kids! & Google needs to help! Apple investors worried about smartphone addiction

ET The iPhone has made Apple and Wall Street hundreds of billions of dollars.

Now some big shareholders are asking at what cost in an unusual campaign to make the company more socially responsible.

A leading activist investor and a pension fund are saying the smartphone maker needs to respond to what some see as a growing crisis of youth phone addiction.

3. “If you asked me whether intelligence agencies found this years ago, I would guess certainly yes.”

Two days earlier in their lab at Graz University of Technology Moritz Lipp Daniel Gruss and Michael Schwarz had determined to tease out an idea that had nagged at them for weeks a loose thread in the safeguards underpinning how processors defend the most sensitive memory of billions of computers.

His code designed to steal information from the deepest most protected part of a computer operating system known as the kernel no longer spat out random characters but what appeared to be real data siphoned from the sensitive guts of his machine snippets from his web browsing history text from private email conversations.

In fact the bizarre confluence of so many disparate researchers making the same discovery of vulnerabilities raises the question of who else might have found the attacks before who might have secretly used them for spying potentially for years before this week revelations and the flood of software fixes from practically every major tech firm that have rushed to contain the threat.

4. How is Apple not the first shipping with these CPUs? Seems like perfect for iMacs and a high end Mac Minis.

official launch builds on the platform announcement made late last year with added additional specifications confirmation of the feature set and a series of new products based on Intel with Radeon Graphics are set to be announced this week at CES from Dell HP and Intel own NUC.

Intel is buying the graphics processor from AMD much like any other silicon purchase and as a result involvement is strictly business.

Y SoCs up to for portable fanless designs and U SoCs around for sleek lifestyle products H CPUs around offering more cores for larger enthusiast notebooks G CPUs with additional up to S Desktop processors X A special segment for desktops based on server processors.

5. Thanks for the shoutout @twobitidiot about @SpankChain

Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.

As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.

The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.

6. The year-old Facebook Journalism Project is a great example of the power imbalance between Facebook and publishers.

Facebook was getting blasted for the spread of fake news contributing to filter bubbles and doing too little to help publishers make money on the platform.

learned a great deal from our partners over the past year and together we made significant strides in areas like increasing monetization and support for subscriptions improving brand recognition for publishers and news literacy and investing in training programs and tools like data insights.

I think Facebook executives get enough credit for the ways they enable publishers to communicate with audiences and monetize and they stand there and take full blast from the entire industry said Nicholas Carlson chief content officer of Business Insider.

7. Intel’s teeny tiny Hades Canyon NUCs can actually play games. Really. (Kaby Lake G + NUC)

The fastest previous Intel NUC machine was the model that featured a gen Skylake CPU and Iris Pro graphics.

From what Intel has claimed Core CPUs with the version of the custom Radeon RX Vega M will reach up to GeForce GTX levels of gaming performance.

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8. Im also rooting for @spankchain 🙂 “95 Crypto Theses for 2018” — @twobitidiot

Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.

As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.

The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.

9. Agree wholeheartedly with @twobitidiot – rest of his Crypto Theses for 2018 here:

Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.

As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.

The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.

10. “A Tale of Two Bitcoins” — @VinnyLingham

It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going direct to Heaven we were all going direct the other way in short the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only.

This post is written with the intention of being neutral and has been reviewed by supporters from both sides who believe it is a reasonably fair representation of the arguments from each camp.

I ran a poll on my twitter trying to find out what aspects of Bitcoin were most appealing only had options and unsurprisingly of people cared about censorship resistance in that they would have to run their own node and validate transactions.