by Alpha | Jul 24, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Sarepta Therapeutics Announces Proposed $250 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT ), a U.S. commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of unique RNA-targeted therapeutics for the treatment of rare neuromuscular diseases, today announced that it is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, $250 million in shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. Sarepta also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional $37.5 million in shares of its common stock offered in the public offering.
2. WebMD to be acquired by KKR for $66.50 a share in cash
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3. Genocea Reports Positive Top-Line 12-Month Phase 2b Data for GEN-003 in Genital Herpes
– Statistically significant result on expected Phase 3 primary endpoint with Phase 3 dose – – Positive results on multiple secondary clinical endpoints – – Potentially the first new treatment in more than 20 years for the millions infected with genital herpes – – Conference call today at 8 a.m. ET –
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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.
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.
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.
by Alpha | Jul 20, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. ECB Leaves Guidance Unchanged as Anticipation for Autumn Builds
The European Central Bank deferred the delicate decision of how and when to venture the next step toward policy normalization until later this year.
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“$SRPT Beat and Raise and I Can’t Believe this Stock Is Still in the $30s PT $101”
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Blackstone Group LP rode a widespread market advance in the second quarter, earning 36 percent more than a year earlier. The results fell short of analysts’ estimates as a downturn in energy prices hit private equity holdings.
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Ex-banker Patrick Quade’s website sent the burrito chain’s stock price into a tailspin this week.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) held interest rates steady Thursday, amid speculation that the bank will start to scale back its ultra-loose monetary policy in the fall.
6. Goldman’s rotten trading quarter is a familiar smell on Wall Street
Big Wall Street banks have spent billions of dollars and untold man-hours in recent years transforming their trading desks from hedge-fund like operations trading on their own account into market-making businesses offering a price based on what customers want to buy or sell.
7. Spark Therapeutics Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Investigational LUXTURNA™ (voretigene neparvovec) from FDA
PHILADELPHIA, July 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, announced today that the Offices of Orphan Products Development and Pediatric Therapeutics of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have designated investigational LUXTURNA TM (voretigene neparvovec) as a drug for a rare pediatric disease. Under FDA’s Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher program, companies who receive approval for a new drug application or Biologics License Application (BLA) for a rare pediatric disease may be eligible to receive a voucher for a Priority Review of a subsequent marketing application for a different product. The Priority Review Voucher may be used by the company or sold to a third party.
8. BP Said to Approach Possible Buyers for North Sea Assets
BP has approached potential buyers of its oil-and-gas production assets in the North Sea, people familiar with the matter said,
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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.
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.
by Alpha | Jul 17, 2017 | RQLAB
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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by Alpha | Jul 17, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. BlackRock Finds Being the Amazon.com of ETFs Is Tough on Revenue
It’s tough trying to be the Amazon.com of ETFs.
2. Qualcomm Loses Bid to Stall $664,000 Daily Fines in EU Battle
Qualcomm Inc. lost a court bid to stall European Union regulators from imposing daily fines of 580,000 euros ($664,216) for failing to supply information for antitrust probes into the chip company’s sales tactics.
3. Major tech firms urge U.S. to retain net neutrality rules
A group representing major technology firms including Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday to abandon plans to reverse the landmark 2015 rules barring internet service providers from blocking or slowing consumer access to web content.
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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.
by Alpha | Jul 12, 2017 | Pre-Market
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OPEC’s first assessment of world markets in 2018 showed that, despite cutting output, the group is still pumping too much crude.
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Thanks in part to net neutrality the open internet has grown to become an unrivaled source of choice competition innovation free expression and opportunity.
open internet ensures that both new and established services whether offered by an established internet company like Google a broadband provider or a small startup have the same ability to reach users on an equal playing field.
Google and many others are joining together to call on the FCC to preserve the open internet and we encourage you to act too.
June PTA coalition of tech companies including Amazon Reddit Vimeo and Kickstarter is mobilizing for a day of action to save net neutrality on July.
The day of action is a response to the FCC plans to dismantle key net neutrality rules including the classification of internet providers as common carriers something also known as Those rules which were enacted by the FCC in essentially treat internet and wireless providers like public utilities barring them from prioritizing any services on their networks.
In a wide coalition of startups and big companies joined together for a protest day against SOPA a controversial bill that eventually died in committee.
We often said that Stack Overflow is a place for everything that programmers want to do and talk about but we always wished that we could make it easier for teams of engineers to better support one another on the same site where they give so much to the public interests of programming.
It has always been difficult to accommodate folks that want to collaborate more closely in a manner that prevents them from clashing with what we built as conventional public Q A there are many kinds of questions that simply do work well in our shared body of knowledge.
I like to see a robust offering of communication channels Slack whatever else kids use these days for notifications so a team use of the product does ebb away because nobody goes check it for new content and you end up sending inane Hey I posted this question to get folks to go there.
ET Google operates a program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from Harvard University to the University of California Berkeley.
Over the past decade Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance paying to for.
exactly the point we all agree that an open internet is critical for ensuring freedom of expression and a free flow of ideas and commerce in the United States and around the Recode reports that the company will air ads in DC this week as part of the effort.
Senior executive VP of external and legislative affairs Bob Quinn argues in AT post that the company supports the foundational elements of net neutrality even as it pushes back on the strong protections installed under the previous chairman Tom Wheeler.
T and other companies like Comcast and Verizon have waged an all out war on net neutrality protections because they want to be able to charge Internet users and startups extra fees and squeeze all of us for more money for less.
Under the Republican plan internet service providers would agree to voluntarily comply with net neutrality concepts and the Federal Trade Commission which currently has no authority to regulate the issue would protect consumer interests.
block throttle or discriminate against lawful content delivered over the internet and we are committed to continuing to manage our business and network with the goal of providing the best possible consumer experience Brian Roberts Comcast chief executive officer said in an April Roberts whose company has spent million during the past decade while lobbying the government on issues that include net neutrality said the Trump plans are simply trying to remove a over broadband investment decisions and T which has spent million during the last years while lobbying government agencies and Verizon which has dropped million also argue that they support the concept of net neutrality but not the rules that enforce companies were investigated by the Obama administration for violating the rules by allowing their own video services to exceed mobile data caps that were enforced on other content providers.
Facebook which boasts billion unique monthly users has spent almost two internet giants are joining about organizations in the Wednesday Day of Action to protest any rollback of net neutrality regulations.
Morgan Stanley analysts downgraded Snap on Tuesday a day after the shares fell below their IPO price of.
A team lead by analyst Brian Nowak downgraded the stock to equal weight from overweight and slashed their price target to from.
Previously the Morgan Stanley analyst expected Snap to report positive earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization of in.
Snap lead initial public offering underwriter downgraded the company to a neutral and lowered its price target by to.
We move to neutral and will monitor four areas of innovation which could improve SNAP ad product and advertiser demand Nowak wrote.
Google Search YouTube Facebook and Twitter among others have all gone through growing pains as the key now is SNAP ability to execute and improve its ad offering Nowak said.
Hundreds of companies and organizations plan to participate in this Day of Action from giants such as Amazon Google Facebook and Netflix to Reddit Etsy PornHub Spotify and even some smaller internet service providers like Ting and Sonic.
The plan is reminiscent of a similar campaign in January when countless websites including Google Wikipedia and WIRED blacked out parts of their pages to raise awareness about a pair of draconian intellectual property reform bills known as SOPA and PIPA that Congress was debating at the time.
It was a crucial moment in the history of internet policy and proved that activists and web companies could mobilize the public to push back against harmful legislation and now the organizers behind the Day of Action are hoping to repeat that success.
Reuters Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp is considering selling its website certification business in a deal that could fetch more than billion and extricate it from a feud with Alphabet Inc Google people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark has been transforming Mountain View Symantec by jettisoning units and spending billions of dollars on acquisitions.
It has been moving away from services that are more commoditized selling its data storage business Veritas in January to private equity firm Carlyle Group LP for billion.
