by Alpha | May 19, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. T-Mobile sees benefits in merger with Sprint: CFO
T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) would benefit from greater scale in the industry if it were to combine with rival Sprint Corp (S.N), the chief financial officer of the No. 3 wireless carrier said at a conference on Thursday.
2. OPEC panel looking at deepening, extending oil cuts: sources
An OPEC panel reviewing scenarios for next week’s policy-setting meeting is looking at the option of deepening and extending an OPEC-led deal to reduce oil output, OPEC sources said on Friday.
3. Full tanks and tankers: a stubborn oil glut despite OPEC cuts
After the first OPEC oil production cut in eight years took effect in January, oil traders from Houston to Singapore started emptying millions of barrels of crude from storage tanks.
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vote also opens up a broad inquiry into what if any protections the FCC should add to replace the outgoing net neutrality rules.
His hope is that by deregulating internet providers and removing restrictions on business models like the creation of fast and slow lanes ISPs will have more incentive to build out their networks and reach new customers.
During the meeting Pai read letters from smaller internet providers claiming they had slowed network expansion because of the Title II regulations.
Joining the protest were members of advocacy groups including Free Press the American Civil Liberties Union Common Cause the Electronic Frontier Foundation Fight for the Future and the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
The cable industry top lobby group placed a ad in The Washington Post this week pledging that its members will not block throttle or otherwise impair your online activity.
On the plus side for consumers eliminating the common carrier classification could give the Federal Trade Commission authority to regulate ISPs and enforce its rules against unfair or deceptive practices.
We have any passwords for these accounts therefore these users are at zero risk both within Zomato as well as on Google and Facebook and any other services where the same ID is being used to log in.
The reason reading this blog post is because of a recent discovery by our security team about million user records from our database were stolen.
be further enhancing security measures for all user information stored within our database A layer of authorisation will be added for internal teams having access to this data to avoid the possibility of any human breach.
Consensus is that hit a tipping point and the retail industry is finally seeing some major collateral damage from monster growth and news has started giving this a lot of coverage.
They are thumbing through their income statement and picking off the largest categories to first technology AWS then fulfillment FBA then COGS the actual products themselves via various private label programs and next shipping.
This has spawned a whole ecosystem of tools called which use the MWS API to automatically respond to price changes in order to maximize sales for the Marketplace seller the WSJ published a great piece on this back in March aptly likening it to trading.
by Alpha | May 16, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Google to Push AI Smarts to iPhone, New Photo Books Service
The Alphabet unit plans to expand its voice-based assistant beyond its own hardware at this week’s I/O conference
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However as part of our ongoing investigation today we confirmed that a malicious third party had gained temporary access to a separate system that allows us to communicate announcements to users via email.
As a leader in online eSignature security and compliance DocuSign has a policy for this type of malicious email and is fully prepared to ensure minimal impact to our customers and company.
As a leader in online eSignature security and compliance DocuSign has a policy for this type of malicious email and is fully prepared to ensure minimal impact to our customers and company.
So finally found enough time between emails and Skype calls to write up on the crazy events which occurred over Friday which was supposed to be part of my week off I made it a total of days without working so that.
While the domain was propagating I ran the sample again in my virtual environment to be met with WannaCrypt ransom page but more interestingly was that after encrypting the fake files I left there as a test it started connecting out to random IP addresses on port used by SMB.
I contacted Kafeine about this and he linked me to the following freshly posted tweet made by ProofPoint researcher Darien Huss who stated the opposite that our registration of the domain had actually stopped the ransomware and prevent the spread.
Continue reading the main story Le Thi Thu Hang a spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry called the findings of the report and said the country looked forward to working internationally to fight digital breaches.
and more companies have to hire experts and train the staff to understand the security risks that are part of their everyday working routine said Amanuel Flobbe the chairman of the Information and Communications Technology Sector Committee at the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
This year the president of Microsoft Brad Smith called for a digital Geneva Convention to push back against a raft of political hackings that have targeted elections in the United States and Europe.
The emails the DocuSign brand in an attempt to trick recipients into opening an attached Word document that when clicked installs malicious software.
As part of our process in response to phishing incidents we confirmed that core eSignature service envelopes and customer documents remain secure.
However as part of our ongoing investigation today we confirmed that a malicious third party had gained temporary access to a separate system that allows us to communicate announcements to users via email.
Outlook and Implications Based on incident response investigations product detections and intelligence observations along with additional publications on the same operators FireEye assesses that is a cyber espionage group aligned with Vietnamese government interests.
While the motivation for each private sector compromise varied and in some cases was unknown the unauthorized access could serve as a platform for law enforcement intellectual property theft or anticorruption measures that could ultimately erode the competitive advantage of targeted organizations.
While actors from China Iran Russia and North Korea remain the most active cyber espionage threats tracked and responded to by FireEye reflects a growing host of new countries that have adopted this dynamic capability.
The camera filter known on the service as a Lens let them see their heads in the shape of a giant wobbling hardshell taco with lettuce and tomato poking out and the logo in the corner of the shot.
On May Snapchat began rolling out a slate of promotional Lenses that superimpose corporate logos as well as silly tacos on buildings horizon lines and other elements of a photos and videos not just faces.
This kind of deluxe advertising may buoy Snap temporarily but it remains to be seen whether Facebook can learn the same whether the Lenses will drive the to Taco Bell says Harry Kargman CEO of maker Kargo.
Facebook asked for viewer feedback and heard that users find these static images or pools to be interesting or engaging Live content.
But if publishers who post thes keep getting negative feedback their reach could shrink and Facebook seays it will continue to monitor this trend.
Facebook has poured a ton of engineering and marketing resources into owning the verb go Keeping the quality of these broadcasts high is critical to it recouping those costs over the by being the the premier place to record and watch Live social content.
By end the Pentagon wants computers to be leading the hunt for Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria through turning countless hours of aerial surveillance video into actionable intelligence.
part of Project Maven a effort launched last month by Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work to accelerate improve and put to wider use the use of machine learning.
have to tackle the problem a different way said Air Force John Shanahan director for defense intelligence for warfighter support and the man tasked with finding the new technology.
by Alpha | May 15, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Aurinia Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results, Announces Initiation of Phase III Aurora Clinical Trial, and Provides Operational Highlights
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has released its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017. Amounts, unless specified otherwise, are expressed in U.S.
2. Cyberattack Is Likely to Keep Spreading
The cyberattack that spread around the globe over the weekend, hitting businesses, hospitals and government agencies in at least 150 countries, is likely to keep growing as people around the world return to work, law-enforcement authorities warned.
3. Thermo Fisher to buy drug ingredients maker Patheon for $5.2 billion
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (TMO.N), the world’s No. 1 maker of scientific instruments, said on Monday it would buy Dutch drug ingredients maker Patheon NV (PTHN.N) as it looks to become a one-stop shop for contract drug development and manufacturing.
4. Biogen Acquires Remedy Pharmaceuticals’ CIRARA™ for Large Hemispheric Stroke
Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced today that it has completed an asset purchase of Remedy Pharmaceuticals’ Phase 3 candidate, CIRARA™ (intra
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“1 fatal case of intracranial hemorrhage in $IONS FAP study”
6. Ionis Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase 3 NEURO-TTR Study of Inotersen (IONIS-TTR Rx) Meets Both Primary Endpoints
CARLSBAD, Calif., May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IONS) announced today that…
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The ransomware used in attack wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica as well as the National Health Service NHS where operations were cancelled test results and patient records became unavailable and phones did not work.
But the spread of the attack was brought to a sudden halt when one UK cybersecurity researcher tweeting as malwaretechblog with the help of Darien Huss from security firm Proofpoint found and inadvertently activated a in the malicious software.
By Friday evening the ransomware had spread to the United States and South America though Europe and Russia remained the hardest hit according to security researchers Malware Hunter Team.
More broadly Australia risks being left behind at a time when countries like China and India are looking to nurture their own cultures to match the success of Silicon Valley and keep their economies on the cutting edge.
The internet modernization plan has been hobbled by cost overruns partisan maneuvering and a major technical compromise that put technology between the digital backbone and many of its homes and businesses.
was the first country where a totally national plan to cover every house or business was considered said Rod Tucker a University of Melbourne professor and a member of the expert panel that advised on the effort.
Five businesses in South Korea reported ransomware attacks over the weekend according to the internet security agency and a Korean theater chain said moviegoers on Sunday alerted them when computer ransom notes appeared on screens instead of programmed advertisements.
Among the organizations hit were FedEx in the United States the Spanish telecom giant Telefónica the French automaker Renault universities in China federal railway system and Interior Ministry.
in July that updating hardware and software was matter of urgency and noted that one hospital had already had to pay about to repair a breach that began after an employee clicked on a web link in an unsafe email.
As thousands of organizations work to contain and clean up the mess from this devastating Wana ransomware attack the fraudsters responsible for releasing the digital contagion are no doubt counting their earnings and congratulating themselves on a job well done.
The Wana ransomware became a global epidemic virtually overnight this week after criminals started distributing copies of the malware with the help of a security vulnerability in Windows computers that Microsoft patched in March.
As I observed on several occasions in my book Spam Nation which tracked the careers of some of the most successful malware writers and pharmacy pill spammers on the planet it was often disheartening to see how little money most of those guys made given the sheer amount of digital disease they were pumping out into the Internet on a daily basis.
Amazon seems to have made a significant oversight in bringing voice calls and messaging to its Echo speakers no way to block communication that you might not want.
When you enable the calling and messaging features Amazon accesses your contacts list to determine who else has an Echo device in their home.
Amazon wants Alexa calling and messaging to gain popularity so taking a broad approach to populate that list quickly.
minivan in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show in Brett Carlsen for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO As the race to bring vehicles to the public intensifies two of Silicon most prominent players are teaming up.
Waymo the car unit that operates under parent company has signed a deal with the Lyft according to two people familiar with the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Continue reading the main story The deal between Waymo and Lyft has competitive implications for Uber the biggest company which has recently had to confront a spate of workplace and legal problems.
really helped to drive adoption of Google in the classroom while Apple and Microsoft continued to leverage traditional sales channels said Phillip DiBartolo the chief information officer of Chicago Public Schools.
Casap quickly persuaded university officials to scrap their costly internal email service an unusual move at the time and replace it with a free version of the package that Google had been selling to companies.
a private company very creatively using public resources in this instance time and expertise to build new markets at low cost said Patricia Burch an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California.
May HackerFantasticWCRY ransomware SLAP tool with version.
COBOL historically been the most attractive option for a hip young programmer admitted to Stuart McGill chief technology officer at development tools vendor Micro Focus.
In a March thread on Hacker News someone described learning COBOL as swallowing a barbed pill lamenting the legacy code with technical extended updated moved to new hardware over and Documentation if any is hopelessly out of.
Reuters reported that Hinshaw divides his time between children and grandchildren helping companies avert crippling computer When he started programming instructions were coded into punch cards which were fed into mainframes.
by Alpha | May 11, 2017 | Pre-Market
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2. XBiotech No. 2 Executive Resigns, Leaving Struggling Biotech Without Top Operations Chief
XBiotech offered no reason for Thornburg’s resignation, but he left two weeks after European regulators issued a preliminary recommendation to reject the application for the company’s colon cancer drug Xilonix.
3. Verizon to enter definitive agreement to buy Straight Path for $184 per share
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to tell them they were being targeted In December after the former investment banker and finance minister had emerged as easily the most and Union candidate in the presidential race they began receiving phishing emails.
only good news is that this activity is now commonplace and the general population is so used to the idea of a Russian hand behind this that it backfired on them said John Hultquist the director of cyberespionage analysis at FireEye the Silicon Valley security firm.
One purported to detail the purchase of the stimulant mephedrone sometimes sold as salts by a Macron campaign staffer who allegedly had the drugs shipped to the address of National Assembly.
We care a lot about building and investing in compelling and interactive virtual reality experiences and have created many of our YouTube Street View and Photos on Daydream to Google Earth VR and Tilt Brush.
They created games like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty Virtual which have really thoughtful interactive experiences that are responsive intuitive and feel natural.
Together we be working to create engaging immersive games and developing new interaction models across many different platforms to continue bringing the best VR experiences to life.
When the panelists sat down she uncapped water bottles for them when the moderator conducted a set of quick audience polls she took photos of upraised hands when Dombrovskis talked about industry she twisted in her chair to listen to every word not looking away from him once.
With the research capacities of a staff Vestager makes decisions related to cartelization and antitrust approves or rejects mergers and investigates state aid cases in which member countries single out companies for unfair advantages such as tax breaks.
When Anthony Gardner worked for GE Capital in the early the commissioner Mario Monti spiked merger with Honeywell International Welch had thought this was a political could slam his fist on the table and threaten retaliation.
to tell them they were being targeted In December after the former investment banker and finance minister had emerged as easily the most and Union candidate in the presidential race they began receiving phishing emails.
only good news is that this activity is now commonplace and the general population is so used to the idea of a Russian hand behind this that it backfired on them said John Hultquist the director of cyberespionage analysis at FireEye the Silicon Valley security firm.
One purported to detail the purchase of the stimulant mephedrone sometimes sold as salts by a Macron campaign staffer who allegedly had the drugs shipped to the address of National Assembly.
Amid trouble at Facebook and Google unprofitable underdog Snapchat aims for engagement As the company behind the viral ephemeral messaging app and Spectacles glasses Snap IPO was the biggest technology offering since Alibaba.
We made good progress this quarter improving the performance and quality of our Snapchat application especially on Android which has helped result in increased net user adds and engagement Khan told CNBC.
Snap should have set its expectations lower Art Hogan chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities told CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday.
The duo switched to investment management the following year when they saw an opportunity to lend money to Malaysian and Sri Lankan rubber plantations providing tires for new Model The firm soon branched out backing railroads in the and then automakers and steel mills the growth stocks of th Century America.
The Scottish firm is a major backer ofRocket Internet SE the controversial technology incubator run by entrepreneurOliver Samwerand his brothers thatarefamous for copying the business models of Silicon Valley startups.
Baillie Gifford understood Nvidia as a way to bet on the growth of artificial graphics processing units are in high demand for machine learning Slater said the firm was concerned about the vagaries of tech hardware investing.
He thinks that running a public company is what you do if you want to be a real Titan of Industry like Barry Diller.
official explanation from its filing It will him to continue growing our business and improving our financial results so that we could undertake an initial public offering which we regard as an important milestone that will provide liquidity to our stockholders and.
Our board of directors approved the award to Spiegel in July to motivate him to continue growing our business and improving our financial results so that we could undertake an initial public offering which we regard as an important milestone that will provide liquidity to our stockholders and.
Snap uses the and websites as means of disclosing material information and for complying with its disclosure obligation under Regulation FD.
Additionally we believe that Free Cash Flow is an important measure since we use infrastructure partners to host our services and therefore we do not incur significant capital expenditures to support revenue generating activities.
We are presenting the measures of Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow to assist investors in seeing our financial performance through the eyes of management and because we believe that these measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in our industry.
The company which makes the popular messaging app Snapchat reported revenue of million.
also a cost item billion in compensation which the filing explains as recognition of expense related to RSUs with a performance condition satisfied on the effectiveness of the registration statement for our initial public.
The company will hold a call with analysts and investors at pm ET to provide some more context and be listening in and liveblogging the event click here.
by Alpha | May 10, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. The Cancer Immunotherapy Fallout from Roche’s Bladder Cancer Failure
Will the FDA revoke Roche’s accelerated approval for Tecentriq in bladder cancer?
2. AstraZeneca asthma drug fails, after similar setback at Roche
An experimental biotech drug for severe asthma from AstraZeneca failed to meet its goal of significantly reducing attacks in a late-stage study, dealing a blow to an approach that had already run into problems at Roche .
3. AstraZeneca provides update on STRATOS 1 Phase III trial of tralokinumab in severe, uncontrolled asthma
Tralokinumab did not meet its primary endpoint of a significant reduction in the annual asthma exacerbation rate
4. Tesla’s solar roof tiles go up for pre-order today
Tesla is opening up pre-orders for its solar roof tiles today — a little later than previously slated. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company will be..
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created one of the smallest wireless video cameras in the world capable of taking a worth of Snaps on a single charge and we integrated it seamlessly into a fun pair of sunglasses available in different colors.
We hope that this change will improve your experience with Snapchat and Spectacles and create a structure that allows us to continue making great new products for you and your friends.
Geostickers are available now in Los Angeles New York City San Francisco Washington DC Honolulu London Sydney São Paulo Paris and Riyadh.
ET ROTTERDAM the recent afternoon at a station on the outskirts of this Dutch city the price of a gallon of unleaded gas started ticking higher rising more than cents by closing time.
A little later a competing station miles down the road raised its price about the same amount.
The two stations are among thousands of companies that use software to set prices.
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Watch video flash briefings and YouTube control smart home devices like lights and cameras plus see music lyrics photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.
Talk with anyone who has an Echo Echo Dot or the Alexa App or drop in for a live visit over video with other Echo Show owners AskAlexa.
Watch video flash briefings and YouTube see music lyrics security cameras photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.
These enable people speak to it in regular phrases to get answers from a vast database of information or to command it to do things for you along the lines of what you might have in the past ordered or purchased through a web interface or via an app.
The Look takes that one step further by bringing in computer vision including a camera to expand the kinds of functionality and responses provided by the Echo.
The Show has the same basic capabilities as the regular Echo like setting timers and listening to music but the display adds plenty of new functionality.
Amazon says the device can also be connected to security cameras letting users check their video feed with commands like show me the front.
Amazon says it imagines this feature will only be used in a small number of scenarios like checking in on an elderly relative.
Snapchat added a set of new creative tools to its arsenal today amid a growing rivalry with army of clones most notably Instagram.
Starting today you can create a virtual pen out of emoji letting you spell out a word out of smiley faces or hearts.
changes allow us to continue evolving the Snapchat service and provide a foundation for introducing even more creative tools for making fun snaps the company said in a blog post.
latest product the Beddit is a thin strip of sensors that goes across a bed analyzing data such as time and efficiency heart rate respiration temperature movement snoring room temperature and room humidity according to a product description.
expect to see an mattress popping up any time soon chances are the folks in Cupertino are more interested in the methods of measuring sleep quality.
What happens long term is unclear as Apple very rarely acquires companies that continue to operate independently though recent acquisition Workflow just received an update that added functionality as well as maintenance.
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