by Alpha | Sep 21, 2017 | Pre-Market
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6. USD:#BREAKING: Philly Fed Prices Paid: September 34.4, August 21.1. $USD
7. ALNY:$ALNY shares ‘substantially overvalued’ – Nomura. Maintains Reduce rating, PT $56
14. AAOI:$AAOI — nice fast trip down from 70, and had a very hard time with that 70 mark
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1. S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk From Debt Growth
S&P Global Ratings cut China’s sovereign credit rating for the first time since 1999, citing the risks from soaring debt, and revised its outlook to stable from negative.
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It is stupid Collin Mulliner a security researcher who studied Bluetooth for years told Motherboard in a Twitter chat.
Motherboard tested this behavior on an iPhone with iOS installed and verified that Bluetooth and remain on in the settings after turning them off in the Control Center as some users have started to notice.
Turning off Bluetooth and reduces your exposure to potential attacks to hardware firmware and software so it good practice Barisani told me.
About a year and a half ago I joined Google to pursue my dream job to create compelling hardware products built with smarts at their core.
Creating beautiful products that people rely on every single day is a journey and we are investing for the long run.
These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line and we excited to see what we can do together as one team.
WASHINGTON Reuters The top markets regulator said on Wednesday that hackers accessed its corporate disclosure database and may have illegally profited by trading on the insider information stolen.
The incident comes just weeks after Equifax Inc a major consumer credit reporting agency disclosed that hackers had stolen data on more than million customers and underscores the threat cyber criminals pose to the integrity of the financial markets.
Two years ago it charged a group of mainly stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine with the theft of thousands of corporate press statements ahead of their public release resulting in more than million in illegal profit.
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is taking steps to stop marketers from being able to target advertisements in offensive ways on the social network through its system.
It the latest controversy to emerge for Facebook whose advertising business has been under intense scrutiny since the Silicon Valley company disclosed that it discovered approximately ads by fake accounts likely out of Russia that sought to sow political discord during the presidential election.
At its scale Facebook which has billion users relies heavily on automated software to sell ads and to monitor activity on the social network.
The Apple TV remote has also been subtly redesigned a white ridge around the menu button now which makes the thing far easier to pick up correctly in the dark and a new gyroscope in it for better motion tracking.
I watched The Dark Knight in HD on HBO Go with our video team and the Apple TV HDR processing blew out all the contrast in the image sharpened everything to hell and turned the film grain into noise.
I love that single system lets you log into your cable provider once and then instantly authenticate every app supported across every tvOS and iOS device even if major players like Comcast are holding out for now.
new Series smartwatch starts shipping this Friday and the biggest feature change between last model and this new Watch is that it has cellular capabilities.
While writing my review of the Apple Watch Series with LTE capabilities I experienced notable connectivity issues.
Unfortunately we still know when that software release is expected or exactly how it will fix the issue of the Watch connecting to cellular networks when supposed to.
Google and Facebook have come under fire for allowing advertisers to direct ads to users who searched for or expressed interest in racist sentiments and hate speech.
Amazon customers buying products that were innocent enough on their own like cooking ingredients received bought prompts for other items that would help them produce explosives according to the Channel News.
In one instance a search for magnesium ribbon a product that can be used to make a crude fuse yielded a suggestion for two powders that explode when mixed together in the right proportions and then ignited.
It was a long wait but Thursday morning finally looked like the time for me to congratulate HTC on a smart move.
To be clear HTC still has a solid team of engineers that works on its branded devices such as its flagship smartphone which is touched by the sale.
A continued slide in revenue for HTC since then suggests these products are gaining traction at least not on the scale once enjoyed by smartphones and it since had to slash prices to keep up with the likes of Facebook Oculus and Sony PlayStation VR.
The scale of the iOS and Android userbases will make building apps more tempting to developers have already used ARKit to show off demos that include virtual pets food ordering bar charts and yes fidget spinners.
Bloomberg reported earlier this year that Apple already has hundreds of engineers working on various projects which suggests that the company has big plans for the technology.
Some such as The New York Story X and Quartz are already looking ahead but many others are likely to be left behind as Nieman Lab editor Joshua Benton pointed out in our coverage of event last week What was once the job of the iPhone is now being distributed bit by bit to a constellation of smaller and more personal devices the Apple Watch on your wrist the AirPods in your ears the AR glasses that everyone expects Apple to bring forth in the next few years.
by Alpha | Sep 20, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. MU:$MU an upgrade a day keeps the downside away. another analyst upgrade this morning
10. PFE:$PFE upgraded to Overweight From Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley
11. WDC:$WDC down 5% as bain the Toshiba buyer
13. FMC:Lithium stocks have been ripping in 2017. Here’s $FMC, which is up 62% this year and at all-time highs ->…
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1. Apple Watch Series 3 Review: Untethered… and Unreliable
Apple Inc. unshackles the Apple Watch Series 3 from your iPhone by giving it its own cellular connection—but the device still isn’t a fully stand-alone wrist computer.
2. Karyopharm Announces Successful Outcome from Phase 2 Portion of Phase 2/3 SEAL Study Evaluating Selinexor in Patients with Previously Treated Advanced Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma
– The Primary Objective of Progression-Free Survival Favored Selinexor over Placebo; Hazard Ratio of 0.60 (RECIST v1.1), Representing a 40% Reduction in Risk of Progression or Death –
3. Matthew Herper on Twitter
“Leerink on $ALNY”
4. Alnylam hits all key endpoints in crucial trial of rare disease drug
The age of RNA interference drugs has arrived. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced positive results Wednesday from a closely watched phase 3 clinical trial of patisiran, the company’s lead drug designed to treat a rare nerve disorder known as familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP.) Most importantly, the safety profile of patisiran in the FAP study looks clean, assuaging …
5. Alnylam and Sanofi Report Positive Topline Results from APOLLO Phase 3 Study of Patisiran in Hereditary ATTR (hATTR) Amyloidosis Patients with Polyneuropathy
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, and Sanofi Genzyme, the specialty care global business unit o
6. Matthew Herper on Twitter
“How long does drug development take? Here is my profile of $alny from 2003.
7. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – Alnylam and Sanofi Report Positive Topline Results from APOLLO Phase 3 Study of Patisiran in Hereditary ATTR (hATTR) Amyloidosis Patients with Polyneuropathy
8. Matthew Herper on Twitter
“Maybe the most impressive part of the $ALNY $SNY release.”
9. Alnylam and Sanofi Report Positive Topline Results from APOLLO Phase 3 Study of Patisiran in Hereditary ATTR (hATTR) Amyloidosis Patients with Polyneuropathy
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , the leading RNAi therapeutics company, and Sanofi Genzyme, the specialty care global business unit of Sanofi, announced today that the APOLLO Phase 3 study of patisiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic being developed for patients with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis
10. Alnylam achieves breakthrough RNAi success as PhIII patisiran study hits all goals
lede lede para para Alnylam investors $ALNY can now start breathing again. The big Cambridge, MA-based biotech says that their Phase III study of patisiran — partnered with Sanofi — scored a positive hit for the primary as well as all secondary hits in treating rare cases of hereditary ATTR
11. Brad Loncar on Twitter
“Awesome quote by @JMaraganore. Congrats to him and $ALNY. Biotech for the win.”
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This story can only be viewed in the App Store on iOS with your iPhone or iPad.
was running a wild west of online advertising fraud allowing Uber ads on websites we wanted nothing to do with and fraudulently claiming credit for app downloads that happened without a customer ever clicking on an.
are shocked by allegations which are unsubstantiated completely without merit and purposefully inflammatory so as to draw attention away from unprofessional behaviour and failure to pay suppliers.
One nontransparent practice disclosed in the report involved agencies getting rewarded with rebates from media companies for reaching spending thresholds on behalf of their clients without knowledge.
ET A group representing investors is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming it took illegal steps to prevent an immigration policy that would have helped founders stay in the to build startups.
In a legal complaint filed Tuesday the National Venture Capital Association along with other plaintiffs claims the Department of Homeland Security violated rules around administrative procedures when it delayed the start of the International Entrepreneur Rule one week.
The phone will also arrive in Black and be available with or storage.
The Pixel XL will cost over months and the version will jump to.
Last Post Here is the New Google Daydream View It Cost Next Post Here is the Pixel in Kinda Blue White and Black Starting at.
ET CUPERTINO your iPhone or in your hand.
Close your eyes and imagine it with a shinier glass back a speedier processor improved cameras and wireless charging.
That may sound like a perfectly good upgrade and on Tuesday it was the best iPhone Apple ever a few minutes later when the company showed off the iPhone X which has all of that and more.
However Hitachi Vantara execs say it will not complete directly with Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform to sell basic computing storage and networking to customers.
Together the three component companies claim customers including Disney dis BMW bmwyy Verizon vz InfoSys and Marks Spencer.
One priority will be to push Insight Lumada Internet of things technology as a platform for connected devices in industrial settings.
new Series smartwatch starts shipping this Friday and the biggest feature change between last model and this new Watch is that it has cellular capabilities.
While writing my review of the Apple Watch Series with LTE capabilities I experienced notable connectivity issues.
Unfortunately we still know when that software release is expected or exactly how it will fix the issue of the Watch connecting to cellular networks when supposed to.
Uber Technologies facing a federal probe into whether it broke laws against overseas bribery has embarked on a review of its Asia operations and notified officials about payments made by staff in Indonesia people with knowledge of the matter said.
As the Justice Department looks into a possible criminal case Uber is working with law firm Myers LLP to examine records of foreign payments and interview employees raising questions about why some potentially problematic business dealings disclosed sooner said the people who asked not to be identified because the details are private.
The head of compliance left this month and Salle Yoo the chief legal officer also said she plans to depart after helping new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi find her successor.
When Google takes the stage on October at a event in San Francisco most of us expect there to be related product announcements too.
heard rumors about a Google Home possibly being on the way and today we can confirm that it exists how much it costs and the colors be available in.
According to the information viewed the Google Home Mini official name will arrive in Chalk Charcoal and Coral colors.
ET A group representing investors is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming it took illegal steps to prevent an immigration policy that would have helped founders stay in the to build startups.
In a legal complaint filed Tuesday the National Venture Capital Association along with other plaintiffs claims the Department of Homeland Security violated rules around administrative procedures when it delayed the start of the International Entrepreneur Rule one week.
by Alpha | Sep 19, 2017 | Pre-Market
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10. NVAX:$NVAX Data From Phase 1/2 Trial of NanoFlu Vaccine Expected by the EOY’17
12. CVS:$CVS Upgrade RBC Capital Initiates Coverage On CVS Health with Outperform Rating, Announces $95.00 Price Target
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1. Acceleron to Develop Sotatercept in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Acceleron Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:XLRN), a leading biopharmaceutical company in the discovery and development of TGF-beta therapeutics to treat serious an
2. Brooklyn Seen as Best Bet for NYC to Win New Amazon Headquarters
Brooklyn may emerge as an attractive lure in New York City’s long-shot bid to become Amazon.com Inc.’s new home.
3. With new operating system, Apple revamps its money-making App Store
Apple Inc’s newest operating system for iPhones and iPads introduces changes to its marketplace for third-party software to satisfy app developers and add new so-called augmented reality apps.
4. Joe Kunkle on Twitter
“$AMGN on acquisitions, cash deployment and tax reform”
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Yesterday Net Neutrality day of action showed that the Internet users care about an open playing field and do want a handful of companies to decide what we can and ca do online.
Dear Tim Jeff and colleagues On behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation I would like to formally submit our request for an appeal of the Director decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions as a Recommendation announced on July.
Dubbed Encrypted Media Extensions EME this mechanism was crafted by engineers from Google Microsoft and Netflix and has been in development for some time.
Second and quite strange if you look carefully into Siri Search Suggestions font see that jagged especially Latin script near edges not smooth at all even compare to input text on same screen.
However during actual usage due to the for some digits very obvious for user that text is closer to left edge which show any pro compared to iOS.
This faux font issue from Safari has appeared in iOS Beta and submitted bug report through Feedback app earlier in August the case number is.
EME is already widely adopted as a direct result of broad collaboration in among major organizations such as Google Microsoft Netflix Mozilla Apple CableLabs Adobe and has significant implementation across Web browsers.
Michael Wise CTO Universal Pictures Integration of DRM into web browsers delivers improved performance battery life reliability security and privacy to users watching their favorite TV shows and movies on Netflix and other video services.
Mark Richer President Advanced Television Systems Committee IPTV Forum Japan IPTVFJ sincerely congratulates that World Wide Web Consortium has published Encrypted Media Extensions EME as a Recommendation.
Before Google Assistant was a thing the Mountain View company spoke of the concept as without turning the contextual awareness of your phone into a series of automatic triggers to surface useful information.
Most of us are familiar with these still rudimentary assistive qualities which synergize nicely with voice controls and searches to set the stage for a future where we just talk to our smart and informed pocket computers.
When you buy one of these phones you should expect small plumes of perfume to waft up at your nostrils a tiny trumpet band to start playing and a handwritten note of thanks from Samsung Mobile chief JK Shin.
Roku may not have the same buzz as Google Facebook or even Snap but when it goes public it plans to take a page from the books of those companies creating an ownership structure that will give its CEO and other insiders outsized power.
The voting power that will be held by Wood and the other insiders after the offering will limit your ability to influence corporate matters Roku warned prospective shareholders in a updated regulatory document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday.
The company also licenses its software for use in smart TVs and traditional pay TV industry boxes and it sells advertising inside of its interface and some of the videos it streams.
Second and quite strange if you look carefully into Siri Search Suggestions font see that jagged especially Latin script near edges not smooth at all even compare to input text on same screen.
However during actual usage due to the for some digits very obvious for user that text is closer to left edge which show any pro compared to iOS.
This faux font issue from Safari has appeared in iOS Beta and submitted bug report through Feedback app earlier in August the case number is.
Second and quite strange if you look carefully into Siri Search Suggestions font see that jagged especially Latin script near edges not smooth at all even compare to input text on same screen.
However during actual usage due to the for some digits very obvious for user that text is closer to left edge which show any pro compared to iOS.
This faux font issue from Safari has appeared in iOS Beta and submitted bug report through Feedback app earlier in August the case number is.
The Keybase app takes care of all the crazy stuff such as rotating keys when Alice later boots Carter because he a lousy.
From passing around technical secrets to discussing more tender business dealings these groups will want data that ca be decrypted by others inside their own company.
Nothing we offering for free now will flip to a pay model so if you make a person team now and start using it you wo someday be faced with a credit card screen just to get your files or messages.
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EME is already widely adopted as a direct result of broad collaboration in among major organizations such as Google Microsoft Netflix Mozilla Apple CableLabs Adobe and has significant implementation across Web browsers.
Michael Wise CTO Universal Pictures Integration of DRM into web browsers delivers improved performance battery life reliability security and privacy to users watching their favorite TV shows and movies on Netflix and other video services.
Mark Richer President Advanced Television Systems Committee IPTV Forum Japan IPTVFJ sincerely congratulates that World Wide Web Consortium has published Encrypted Media Extensions EME as a Recommendation
by Alpha | Sep 18, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Walgreens Said to Tweak Rite Aid Deal to Clinch U.S. Approval
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is poised to revise its agreement to buy individual Rite Aid Corp. stores, a move that may be enough to resolve outstanding antitrust concerns and clinch U.S. approval for a deal the companies have been pursuing in different forms for two years, said people familiar with the matter.
2. Ultragenyx Proposes to Acquire Dimension Therapeutics for $5.50 Per Share in Cash (NASDAQ:RARE)
Proposed Combination of Complementary Rare Disease Franchises Maximizes the Ability to Bring Needed New Therapies to Market Proposal Delivers Superior Value To Dimension’s Shareholders Relati…
3. Whole Foods Shows What Economists Don’t Know
Was Amazon’s price cut a good idea? Econ 101 won’t tell you.
4. Christian Fromhertz on Twitter
“$NVDA Nvidia PT Raised to $210 at BofAML on Data Center, Volta”
5. Nabriva novel antibiotic meets goals in late-stage bacterial pneumonia study
Nabriva Therapeutics (NBRV) took a big risk pushing its novel antibiotic, lefamulin, into a late-stage clinical trial in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia without any prior clinical data. On Monday, the bet paid off. The Ireland-based company said lefamulin achieved the primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 study of 551 patients with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. …
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Alkermes plc (NASDAQ: ALKS) today announced positive topline results from a phase 4 clinical study of ARISTADA® (aripiprazole lauroxil) extended-r
7. Nokia says to get sales boost after patent ruling
Nokia (NOKIA.HE) will start to book additional revenue from the current quarter after a ruling by an arbitration court on payments from South Korea’s LG Electronics (066570.KS) for using its smartphone patents.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
by Alpha | Sep 15, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Donald J. Trump on Twitter
“ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!”
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SAN FRANCISCO Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs.
Google has been an tech innovator its treatment of female employees has not entered the century said Kelly Dermody of the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the suit.
Google is attracting particular scrutiny over how it treats female employees after a memo written by a former male software engineer for the company argued that its efforts to bring more women into technical roles were unfair and not good for business.
ET SoftBank Group is nearing an ambitious deal to take a substantial stake in Uber Technologies only if the Japanese technology investor can persuade shareholders to sell enough stock at a steep discount.
After weeks of deliberation board in recent days has been hashing out its response to a potential investment led by.
To test if these ad categories were real we paid to target those groups with three in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds.
are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards said Rob Leathern product management director at Facebook.
In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville by groups that included Nazis Facebook and other tech companies vowed to strengthen their monitoring of hate speech.
Illustrators comedians game makers and musicians use Patreon to let fans pay a monthly subscription fee for special access to their work.
The cash should give Patreon the muscle needed to compete with other big platforms that help creators monetize including YouTube and new Watch tab of original video.
Musician and videographer Jack Conte had struggled to earn enough from his work and found project crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter provide the steady capital artists need to focus on creativity.
Alphabet has held conversations with Lyft about a potential investment in recent weeks signalling strong support for Uber Technologies main competitor according to people familiar with the matter.
While Lyft has recently focused on controlling spending the cash would allow the San startup to pursue more aggressive growth with subsidies for drivers discounts for riders and marketing.
looking to complete a fundraising deal of his own Uber is advancing on an investment from SoftBank Group and others of as much as billion most of which would allow existing shareholders to cash out.
Google was accused in a lawsuit of systematically paying male employees more than their female counterparts adding the internet giant to a growing list of technology companies sued for gender discrimination.
the same year Ellen Pao put Silicon culture front and center during a trial pitting her against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.
Women continue to get paid less than men despite companies and society overall making great strides in equality according to David Gottlieb a civil rights attorney at Wigdor LLP in New York who involved in the Google suit.
SAN FRANCISCO Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs.
Google has been an tech innovator its treatment of female employees has not entered the century said Kelly Dermody of the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the suit.
Google is attracting particular scrutiny over how it treats female employees after a memo written by a former male software engineer for the company argued that its efforts to bring more women into technical roles were unfair and not good for business.
Facebook equips businesses with powerful ways to reach the right people with the right message.
ProPublica surfaced that these offensive education and employer fields were showing up in our ads interface as targetable audiences for campaigns.
Advertisers can report any inappropriate targeting fields directly in the ads interface or via our Help Center.
Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.
The biggest advertising organizations say Apple will the current economic model of the internet with plans to integrate technology into the new version of Safari.
The infrastructure of the modern Internet depends on consistent and generally applicable standards for cookies so digital companies can innovate to build content services and advertising that are personalized for users and remember their visits.
Safari move breaks those standards and replaces them with an amorphous set of shifting rules that will hurt the user experience and sabotage the economic model for the Internet.
