$MCD McDonald’s shares surge on strong beat, new products fueling sales

$MCD McDonald’s shares surge on strong beat, new products fueling sales

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    MS Paint fans rejoice The original art app going anywhere except to the Windows Store for free.
    Amidst commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight clear up some confusion and share some good news.
    MS Paint is here to stay it will just have a new home soon in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.
    Photograph Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian basic graphics editing program used throughout childhoods since the has been marked for death.
    Starting life as a monochrome licensed version of PC Paintbrush it until Windows that Paint could save in JPEG.
    The most recent version of Paint for Windows and later was much improved but still considered feature poor compared to other free alternatives such as the.
    Now the makers plan to sell that data to smart home device manufacturers turning the friendly robot into a creeping creepy little spy.
    Angle told Reuters that iRobot which made Roomba compatible with Alexa voice assistant in March could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three in the next couple of years.
    And while Amazon seems like an obvious kind that would pay huge money to shut out its forget that Apple has its Siri speaker coming and it has a lot of catching up to do.
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    We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning forecasting and analyzing future periods.
    GeekWire met with Lewis and his Grant Goodale this week at the bustling downtown Seattle office that houses employees its workforce has doubled in eight months and could reach by the end of this year.
    He was fascinated with how Amazon invested in warehouses to help optimize their supply chain and ultimately change consumer shopping behavior by offering fast shipping at a low cost.
    am still putting a good chunk of money in my pocket too you know said Sanderson who hails from Tampa Florida and was driving a load of military supplies to the Seattle area with his wife Sandra by his side.
    Reuters reported on Sunday that KKR was nearing a deal to buy the online health information provider.
    Founded in WebMD has grown into one of the most popular health websites for consumers and medical professionals attracting more than million monthly unique visitors in according to analytics company comScore Inc.
    WebMD also owns medical news and education brand Medscape which accounted for around percent of its advertising revenue in.
    By July.
    ET Foxconn Technology Group which assembles Apple iPhones is nearing a decision to invest in Wisconsin and could hold an event in Washington as soon as this week to discuss investment plans people familiar with the matter said.
    In Wisconsin Foxconn is looking at producing display panels that can be used in.
    Microsoft Paint has been in the news since yesterday when Redmond announced that the software is being deprecated with the upcoming Windows Fall Creators Update.
    In addition to the new capabilities many of the MS Paint features people know and love like photo editing and creation are in Paint the new app for creativity available for free with the Windows Creators update.
    Microsoft provide us with a date for the release of Microsoft Paint on the Windows Store but imagine not too far away and will likely make an appearance shortly after the release of the Windows Fall Creators Update later this.
    Total worldwide spending on television and radio commercials newspaper ads and other measured advertising grew by about billion from to according to figures from Magna Global.
    And other Google digital hangouts particularly YouTube are too popular to ignore for companies that are eager to sell movie tickets running shoes or auto insurance.
    Facebook has warned its revenue growth will slow considerably beginning later in because it ca maintain the increase in the number ads it crams into its news feed.
    Google announced on Friday that it has purchased the music licensing company RightsFlow for its detailed information about who should get paid when any of over million songs get played.
    RightsFlow pictured here now belongs to Google which will use it to simplify royalty accounting on YouTube and possibly other music services.
    Once Google has identified songs uploaded to YouTube using its Content ID fingerprinting technology it should be able to figure out more easily which publishers and songwriters to pay.

 

$CAT BMO Capital Upgrades Caterpillar to Outperform, $125 PT

$CAT BMO Capital Upgrades Caterpillar to Outperform, $125 PT

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    The plan comes with China preparing a national investment initiative to support projects and academic research in according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.
    In the final stage by China will the premier artificial intelligence innovation center which in turn will a new national leadership and establish the key fundamentals for an economic great.
    While the language in Chinese industrial policy can sound stodgy and the targets overly ambitious Beijing takes its economic planning seriously.
    ET Dubbed by shipping executives the of the Seas the Yara Birkeland now under development is scheduled in late to start sailing fertilizer miles down a fiord from a production facility to the port of Larvik.
    The Birkeland is being jointly developed by agriculture firm Yara International ASA and Kongsberg Gruppen AS A which builds guidance systems for civilian and military uses.
    Petter Ostbo head of production who leads the project said the company would look to invest in bigger ships and use them for longer routes once international regulations are in place for crewless vessels.
    The plan comes with China preparing a national investment initiative to support projects and academic research in according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.
    In the final stage by China will the premier artificial intelligence innovation center which in turn will a new national leadership and establish the key fundamentals for an economic great.
    While the language in Chinese industrial policy can sound stodgy and the targets overly ambitious Beijing takes its economic planning seriously.
    Current height Current Median Time July UTC Best Block Hash Previous Block Hash Has Experienced a Blockchain Reorganization No Has not forked but is behind other nodes No.
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    This website is for warning users if the Bitcoin blockchain has experienced a chain split due to the various fork proposals such as and BIP UASF.
    Barry Silbert a venture capitalist who spearheaded the above agreement claims to have the support of many companies who will run the software as their primary bitcoin client starting at the end of July.
    Despite a substantial number of companies being cited via the New York Agreement as intending to replace Bitcoin Core and run there does not appear to be any developer on the or teams with a full time commitment to maintaining the software.
    If the majority of all of the code contributions to software are made by one person is it worth the gamble to place the weight of a billion dollar economy on one back.
    Ann Lai a former employee said in her lawsuit filed in San Mateo Superior Court in California that she had complained to her bosses about sexism discrimination and inappropriate behavior in the workplace and that Binary used the nondisparagement provision in her employment contract to threaten her and prevent her from talking about why she had quit her job.
    Lai a former employee of Binary contends that after she complained to her bosses about sexism and inappropriate behavior in the workplace the company used the provision in her employment contract to threaten her and prevent her from talking about why she had quit her job.
    The company and Lake signed a mutual nondisparagement agreement in Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times wonder how I may have disserviced other women working in tech including my female colleagues with my silence she said.
    The White Hat Group used the same exploit to secure the other compromised wallets within Ethereum with the stated intention of returning control to the original owners.
    All code changes undergo at least one peer review which we manage through a largely manual system of tracking and tagging commonly found in open source projects.
    The first and biggest change will be to ensure that any alterations to the codebase that involve live contract code which can be generally identified through files be reviewed by Solidity experts.
    Fans and artists alike loudly complained but SoundCloud which was busy fighting an existential threat from major record labels address the abuse for nearly three years.
    took away so much value from blogs and networks as it allowed for people to start and create pages and with minimal With reposts it was now trivially easy for artists and promoters to artificially boost the number of streams a song had received.
    was purpose built for Artists often tolerate the duplicates because in most cases they would rather get the exposure to their work and support the free version with the higher play count even if it leaves them grumbling about product.
    Last month a bipartisan group of senators announced that it was working toward its own version of an autonomous vehicle bill which would prioritize fixing outdated rules and clarifying the role of federal and state in regulating cars.
    While engineers race to bring cars to market Silicon Valley companies and Detroit automakers have been lobbying Congress for federal laws that would replace many of the existing regulations and allow them to experiment more freely with new autonomous systems.
    Elon Musk the chief executive of Tesla recently told a National Governors Association meeting that within years he expected new cars produced in the United States would be fully autonomous.

 

$QCOM Qualcomm’s profit forecast disappoints as Apple battle takes toll | $AMZN, $OCN, and More News

$QCOM Qualcomm’s profit forecast disappoints as Apple battle takes toll | $AMZN, $OCN, and More News

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    However to achieve high accuracy the training sets need to be large diverse and accurately annotated which is costly.
    To help close this performance gap developed a method for refining synthetic images to make them look more realistic.
    We show that training models on these refined images leads to significant improvements in accuracy on various machine learning tasks.
    But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
    In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
    for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
    Delivers Record Results in Download During the earnings call on Wednesday July in Bellevue President and CEO John Legere left CFO Braxton Carter center and Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray celebrate unprecedented network expansion which is planned to cover million people by year end allowing the to compete in every corner of the country.
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    Delivers Record Results in Download During the earnings call on Wednesday July in Bellevue President and CEO John Legere left CFO Braxton Carter center and Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray celebrate unprecedented network expansion which is planned to cover million people by year end allowing the to compete in every corner of the country.
    By Updated July.
    ET European top court is set to decide whether the to be policy stretches beyond borders a test of how far national laws when regulating cyberspace.
    The case stems from France where the highest administrative court on Wednesday asked the Court of Justice to weigh in on a dispute between Alphabet Google and privacy regulator over how broadly.
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    But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
    In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
    for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
    Summary A vulnerability in Parity Wallet variant of the standard contract has been found.
    Affected users Any user with assets in a wallet created in Parity Wallet prior to CEST.
    Mitigation steps Immediately move assets contained in the wallet to a secure address.
    But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
    In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
    for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
    In our aggregate analysis ten subjects chose the correct label five hundred seventeen times out of one thousand trials meaning they were not able to reliably distinguish real images from refined synthetic ones.
    In Figure we compare the gaze estimation error with other methods and show that improving the realism significantly helps the model generalize on real test data.
    In Figure twelve we compare the gaze estimation error with other methods and show that improving the realism significantly helps the model generalize on real test data.
    Lester Holt gets minutes to bring his viewers the latest headlines on Nightly The NBC News anchor team delivering a new broadcast via Snapchat will get only a fraction of that.
    Savannah Sellers and Gadi Schwartz pictured above will starting today help deliver Tuned a new newscast that is slated to run twice each weekday and once a day on weekends on the outlet.
    Its debut is the latest effort by traditional outlets to make sure their chief product video news reports remain relevant to a rising generation that is more prone than ever to seek out information and entertainment from screens.

 

$CAT BMO Capital Upgrades Caterpillar to Outperform, $125 PT

The 2414 is the Support Area for $SPX | $SPY, $ES_F

Now that we have revised the previous updates we will dedicate a special attention to June 4th

The market is above the 1.382 -2430- of the 1-2 in red (link), the 8-EMA weekly is at 2438 and the 55 DEMA is at 2417. Holding above this area we can project 2505-2507 at a minimum; nothing new.  But here comes the most important part of this update, I see good probabilities for the market to provide a pullback from 2490-2505 area, but it is likely that the market holds above the current area of consolidation 2460-2420, this would be a 2.4-3% pullback and if the market advances again, breaking above 2505 and 2552 we will have to deal with 2651 sooner rather than later.

For the blue i-ii we sent on June 4th,  the market is still aiming for the 2.618 of this count at 2565.1 and would do well staying above 2444.3 to go for the 2565.1 level.(link).

I know all bears and bulls want a major event that takes the market  10% to the downside, but while the market holds above 2414, that is an irresponsible bet.  That is our new level to watch for the bull case on the long term: 2414, new support.

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$QCOM Qualcomm Loses Bid to Stall $664,000 Daily Fines in EU Battle

$QCOM Qualcomm Loses Bid to Stall $664,000 Daily Fines in EU Battle

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    A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
    Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
    When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
    Today parent company Snap is facing questions about user growth and retention with all the moves Instagram is making to copy features as its declining stock price shows.
    Hearst and other publishers that have channels in Discover section are still committed to the app considering it an important way to reach young audiences in a carefully curated environment and make money from their journalism.
    Since November Instagram has let creators link out to external sites granting a longtime wish of publishers and giving it a leg up on Snapchat which followed with a similar feature on July.
    A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
    Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
    When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
    EssentialBrian Wallace profile on Essential the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin has lost one of its top executives just over a month after it announced its first major product.
    Andy Fouché who is listed as the company head of communications on its website left recently as well he told Business Insider in an email last month.
    Rubin also teased at the Wired Business Conference in June that he like to launch some sort of connected car product but did provide any details beyond that.
    A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
    Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
    When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
    The community has bitterly argued whether the cryptocurrency should evolve to appeal to mainstream corporations and become more attractive to traditional capital or fortify its position as a libertarian beacon whether it should act more as an asset like gold or as a payment system.
    The unprecedented level of endorsement is partly prompted by anxiety of bitcoin losing its dominant status to ethereum a newer cryptocurrency whose popularity has soared thanks to its ability to run smart contracts and its more approach.
    suggest a hard fork happen significantly faster than even the most minor of changes in recent history is irresponsible and dangerous said Matt Corallo a Core contributor and former of Blockstream which is among companies that stand to benefit from SegWit.
    That mean that these services are exactly commodities each builds its own recommendation tools some experiment with routes to market with mobile operators for example and some try exclusive early access to new pop songs.
    Prime has become a third pillar to business next to logistics and the ecommerce platform and Amazon is always looking for ways to add more perceived value to it preferably with no marginal cost TV content that it owns outright is exactly that.
    A recurring story in the past was for a leading tech company to go to Hollywood announce its intention to buy lots of stuff and then turn pale at the first rate card it was shown and say really expensive.