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3. IONS:$IONS data from Phase 3 NEURO-TTR study in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Q2
5. W:$W – Wayfair up 11.65% crushing the shorts some more, 2450 May 26th 55/60 call spreads bought to open late yesterday
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1. Dan Hurley on Twitter
“Finally a sell side title that identifies with my process $NXST”
2. Valeant swings to profit on tax gain, raises forecast
Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.N) (VRX.TO) reported its first profit in six quarters, helped by a one-time tax gain, and raised its full-year earnings forecast, sending its U.S. shares up 13 percent in premarket trading.
3. Sanofi vows to limit 2017 price hikes to 5.4% as part of new ‘holistic’ policy | FiercePharma
Sanofi may be late to the pricing-pledge party but it’s come up with some benchmarks that beat its rivals. Rather than limiting price hikes to less than 10%, the French drugmaker promises to keep any price increases at or below an official U.S. health inflation measure that’s projected to hit 5.4% in 2017.
4. Elliott Takes Akzo Nobel to Court to Oust Chairman in PPG Bid Battle
U.S. activist investor Elliott Management has asked a Dutch court to force Akzo Nobel to hold a special shareholder meeting seeking the removal of its chairman, its latest attempt to strong-arm the paint maker into sale talks with rival PPG.
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They released open data that gave us the opportunity to build an app to help the people of London.
We built software for everything including realtime operational control to driver management to scheduling systems.
In the future explain in more detail how smarter bus tech leads to better mobility and cities.
Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat.
John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting and clicking express to file your comment.
Connect with Last Week Tonight online Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens.
VIENNA Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech an Austrian court has ruled in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online trolling.
The case comes as legislators around Europe are considering ways of forcing Facebook Google Twitter and others to rapidly remove hate speech or incitement to violence.
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said hate speech has no place on the platform and the company has published a policy paper on how it wants to work against false news.
ET One of the most basic human activities writing is getting an assist from machines.
Startup Grammarly uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help improve writing from basic spelling grammar and style to more advanced suggestions on tone and language.
The San Francisco company has been.
Alipay owned by Jack Ant Financial reached a deal that will let its users shop at million merchants served by payments processor First Data the companies said Monday in a joint statement.
Apple mobile payments service can be used at million locations in the Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said last week on a call with analysts.
Still Alipay which started in as an online payments processor for Alibaba Group Holding sites is entering a market much less reliant on mobile transactions than its home country.
Michael Dell after closing the merger with EMC is investing in new ways to bolster his company lineup that provides gear and modern software for data centers.
Looking for an edge against rivals such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise the venture unit called Dell Technologies Capital is likely to invest in new startups or perhaps more this year Darling said.
But while that might have made sense in the past the deal created Dell Technologies a behemoth in the tech world in terms of sales and employees so it now time to highlight investments to others the executives said.
In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app including photo sharing and a lightweight version of the Explore tab.
With the exanded mobile web version users can skip the app wait time data costs and storage needs while still getting the basic functionality.
Since Snapchat is so and Snap Inc prioritized building for international markets and Android users its app work as well in the developing world.
hope to draw from the impressive talent pool as we grow helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Corridor Travis Kalanick embattled CEO wrote in a blog post published this morning.
Though Uber rose to prominence offering a smartphone app for hailing rides it has rapidly embraced the idea of driverless cars over the past few years building a hub dedicated to the technology near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and purchasing the San Francisco autonomous vehicle company Otto for an estimated million.
But its plans were thrown into doubt when Waymo sued the company accusing Anthony Levandowski an Otto founder and former Googler of stealing trade secrets related to the lidar sensors that help driverless cars view the world around them.
by Alpha | May 8, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. COH:BREAKING: Coach announces it will acquire Kate Space & Co. for $18.50 per share or about $2.4B. • $COH $KATE
2. SBGI:Sinclair Broadcasting confirms it will buy Tribune Media for $3.9B in TV station deal. $SBGI $TRCO But what happens to tronc? $TRNC #sarcasm
3. TXMD:$TXMD TherapeuticsMD Receives CRL from FDA for TX-004HR New Drug Application – FDA cites of long-term endometrial safety data for TX-004HR
4. DRRX:$DRRX nd Sandoz have Signed a $293 Million Development and Commercialization Agreement for POSIMIR Covering the United States
5. REGN:$REGN’s PD-1 is starting to be used by other companies in combo trials now. $INO will use it in a small GBM trial.…
7. TRCO:#Sinclair announces deal to buy Tribune for $3.9B — confirming weekend rumors. $TRCO shares up 5.5% pre-market.
10. JUNO:$KITE just revealed a fatal cerebral oedema event in a KTE-C19 safety study $JUNO
12. XLRN:$XLRN top-line results from DART Phase 2 trial in RCC in Q2
13. INO:$INO and $REGN Enter Immuno-Oncology Clinical Study Agreement for Glioblastoma Combination Therapy
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1. Horizon Pharma plc Announces Agreement to Acquire River Vision Development Corp. and Teprotumumab (RV001), a Biologic in Late-Stage Development for Rare Eye Disease
– Pivotal Trial of Teprotumumab in Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Expected to Begin in Second Half of 2017 –
2. Coach to acquire Kate Spade & Co for $18.50 a share in cash
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3. Horizon Pharma plc Announces First-Quarter 2017 Results and Revises Full-Year 2017 Net Sales and Adjusted EBITDA Guidance (NASDAQ:HZNP)
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4. Comcast, Charter to Strike Wireless Partnership
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5. Array BioPharma Announces Strategic Collaboration with Merck
BOULDER, Colo., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Array BioPharma Inc. (ARRY) announced today that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) to investigate the safety and efficacy of Array’s MEK inhibitor, binimetinib, with
6. Tyson Foods profit falls as plant fires hurt production
Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), the No. 1 U.S. meat processor, reported a 21.3 percent slump in quarterly profit as a fire at two of its plants in the period disrupted chicken production, hurting sales at the company’s second-biggest business.
7. Coach to buy rival Kate Spade for $2.4 billion
Handbag maker Coach Inc (COH.N) said it would buy Kate Spade & Co (KATE.N) for $2.4 billion as it looks tap the smaller rival’s popularity among millennials.
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Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday second round of voting in what is seen to be France most important election in decades.
intelligence agencies said in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered hacking of parties tied to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to influence the election on behalf of Republican rival Donald Trump.
Reporting by Eric Auchard in Frankfurt Michel Rose and Bate Felix in Paris Jim Finkle in Toronto Writing by Andrew Callus Editing by Sandra Smith.
In addition to the normal proscription of campaign on election eve the government issued a statement saying specifically that anyone disseminating the materials in this dump in France could be liable to prosecution and calling on the media to shoulder their by steering clear of them.
As reported by The Daily Beast part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear also known as Pawn Storm and was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.
can flood these phishing addresses with multiple passwords and true ones false ones so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out Mounir Mahjoubi the head of digital team told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject.
In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.
Drawing on past experience when we reported an vulnerability in which the length of credential comparison is controlled by the attacker memcmp we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server.
On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.
The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.
His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.
The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.
Back in December rumors started flying that Facebook was looking to follow Amazon Hulu and Netflix into the original content game.
With premium services like Amazon reducing the number of cable subscribers networks like YouTube see an opportunity to snatch up defectors.
And while Snapchat is still far behind Facebook in user count Zuckerberg worries that his company is behind the times when it comes to innovation and attracting younger eyeballs.
In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.
Drawing on past experience when we reported an vulnerability in which the length of credential comparison is controlled by the attacker memcmp we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server.
On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.
The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.
His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.
The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.
According to a blog post published Friday by Tenable Network Security the cryptographic hash that the interface digest access authentication requires to verify someone is authorized to log in can be anything at all including no string at all.
The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.
The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.
According to a blog post published Friday by Tenable Network Security the cryptographic hash that the interface digest access authentication requires to verify someone is authorized to log in can be anything at all including no string at all.
The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.
The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.
But if there one message Zuckerberg and his dozens of staffers want to get across it that this tour is not an elaborate publicity stunt designed to set the stage for his eventual run for office.
Amy Dudley the chief spokeswoman for his philanthropic fund The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was previously the communications director for Hillary Clinton running mate and Virginia senator Tim Kaine.
Zuckerberg visit to Ohio last week included a community college machine learning lab an opioid addiction clinic and a juvenile detention center according to the spokesperson.
by Alpha | May 5, 2017 | Pre-Market
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5. AKAO:$AKAO $20m investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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1. A Top Puma Bio Exec Resigns Ahead of FDA Panel, Analysts Defend With Conflicting Stories
The surprise exit of Puma’s regulatory chief is sparking fears FDA will deal harshly with the company’s breast cancer drug neratinib.
2. New Mountain Capital’s Avantor to buy lab supplies company VWR
Private equity firm New Mountain Capital’s Avantor will buy VWR Corp (VWR.O) for about $4.38 billion, creating a global lab equipment giant supplying everything from beakers to microscopes to the healthcare and technology industries.
3. Wall Street’s M&A Chatter From May 4: General Mills, Brookdale Senior Living, Allergan-Paratek
The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Thursday, May 4, 2017. Allergan Said to Hold Takeover Talks with Paratek The Rumor: Paratek…
4. Warren Buffett has ‘revalued’ IBM downward, cites ‘big strong competitors’
Warren Buffett tells CNBC that he has “revalued” his view of IBM downward as the company has run into stiff competition.
5. Virtu CEO Aims to Be the Good Guy of High-Speed Trading
High-frequency trading firms are often cast as villains. Virtu Financial Chief Executive Douglas Cifu is determined to be seen as one of the good guys.
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The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in Charleston in and James Jackson who fatally stabbed an elderly black man with a sword in the streets of New York earlier this year.
Based in San Francisco Cloudflare operates more than data centers spread across the world serving as a sort of middleman for websites speeding up delivery of a content and protecting it from several kinds of attacks.
In a post the architect Andrew Auernheimer said he had personal relationships with people at Cloudflare and they had assured him the company would work to protect the site in a variety of ways including by not turning over data to European courts.
Many life insurance companies are exploring how to use additional data statistical models artificial intelligence and other techniques to help make quick decisions to ease the policy buying process and boost sales.
Time and testing will tell which new approaches prove effective says Robert Kerzner president and CEO of LIMRA a life insurance trade group.
Ricanek worked on facial recognition technology for the FBI Biometric Center of Excellence and is a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
The site will focus on general news coverage particularly politics at first he said but his goal is that it will cover more niche topics like Bitcoin and dog breeding.
We are hopeful to get some money from other sources but at this stage really focused on the crowdfunding because I think if people are willing to support this in concept even before we get started a good sign that going to be able to attract an audience.
Maybe you interview someone and you write the story in a very traditional way but you also publish the transcript and even the audio so that the community can actually if interested and I think many people will be check those against the story and say this is a fair quote not out of Or this person was joking when they said that but written it up as if they were serious and we should probably edit that to make it more clear that a There are lots of things like that no reason to exclude people from helping out with that sort of thing.
A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts according to a report published Wednesday.
Security researchers demonstrated this dark side of last year when they stalked US Representative Ted Lieu using nothing more than his cell phone number and access to an network.
In January thieves exploited weaknesses to bypass authentication banks used to prevent unauthorized withdrawals from online accounts the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Comedian Kevin Hart host Ellen DeGeneres and the comedy duo Rhett Link are producing unscripted shows that will debut this year YouTube will announce at an event for advertisers in New York Thursday.
mission at the annual Newfront presentations in New York where online companies are introducing their latest initiatives this week is to convince marketers to shift more ad money to the web from TV.
two biggest players in the Newfronts are YouTube and Hulu yet neither tells you exactly where your ad ran said Ben Winkler chief investment officer of OMD USA part of the Omnicom Group advertising company.
Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
by Alpha | May 4, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Amazon and EU Reach Settlement Over E-Book Contracts
Amazon.com has reached an agreement with the European Union’s antitrust authorities over the EU’s probe into its electronic books contracts with publishers.
2. Incyte – This is Pivotal Science
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Every Google Account comes with today most advanced security features built in.
You can sign in with a password what most people choose or add Verification which sends a code to your phone as an extra security step.
Sign in to review the apps and sites approved to connect with your account and keep track of your saved passwords.
A massive phishing campaign targeting Google accounts ripped through the internet on Wednesday afternoon.
Several people online across a range of industries said they received emails containing what looked like a link to a Google Doc that appeared to come from someone they know.
We removed the fake pages pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.
A number of people have been victims of an apparent phishing attempt where hackers try to get you to click on sketchy links by an unknown organization starting around am PT today.
A Google spokesperson said in a statement that the company has disabled the accounts where the hack originated pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.
The attack hit an unknown number of employees within BuzzFeed and seems to also target people outside of the organization including school districts and universities.
On a platform nearly billion users strong the company have better anticipated the sheer statistical inevitability that someone would use Facebook to broadcast acts of violence and had more robust measures in place to make such harder to pull off.
When a Gizmodo reporter uncovered ideological bias in Trending Topics Facebook overcorrected by getting rid of human curators altogether relying on algorithms that pushed hoaxes as news.
When critics argued the company had a responsibility to exert editorial control over content proliferating on the site it failed to act until the spread of false stories helped shape the outcome of the presidential election.
With a constantly expanding mix of music uploaded to SoundCloud every day now made it easier to filter through it all.
The Upload is all about surfacing more of what into or what you might be and is the destination for a regularly updated bespoke playlist of new music relevant to you.
This new feature is another opportunity for creators on SoundCloud to get their music heard by our global community and a great way for listeners to be on the pulse of next now.
Incensed over Apple decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips Qualcomm plans to retaliate by asking a trade agency to ban the imports of iPhones according to a person familiar with the strategy.
The ITC is a agency in Washington that has the power to block the import of goods into the and processes cases more quickly than federal district courts the venue in which the companies are accusing each other of lying making threats and trying to create an illegal monopoly.
Qualcomm offered fair terms as required under rules governing the licensing of patents Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said when asked about the possibility the chipmaker could try to halt iPhone sales anywhere in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg today announced on earnings call that WhatsApp Status now has million daily users after only launching in.
is aware of the issue and working to fix it as soon as possible a spokesperson told TechCrunch and it expects service to be restored soon.
But deep traction in international markets where Snapchat caught on yet gave it an opportunity to be the first popular app to offer Stories in many countries.
At stake is a market that could one day be worth tens of billions of dollars and upend everything from the automotive industry to the business that Uber has pioneered to become the world most valuable private tech company.
An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.
Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.
At stake is a market that could one day be worth tens of billions of dollars and upend everything from the automotive industry to the business that Uber has pioneered to become the world most valuable private tech company.
An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.
Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.
by Alpha | May 3, 2017 | Business
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1. SEC Probes Solar Companies Over Disclosure of Customer Cancellations
Federal regulators are investigating whether solar-energy companies are masking how many customers they are losing, according to a person familiar with the matter.
2. Bain, Carlyle, Thoma Bravo Are Among Bidders for Citrix
Private equity firms Bain Capital, Carlyle Group LP and Thoma Bravo are among bidders for cloud-services company Citrix Systems Inc., people familiar with the matter said.
3. Larry Dignan on Twitter
“NYT added 308,000 net digital news subscriptions in Q1.”
4. Strong demand at Taco Bell drives Yum Brands’ profit beat
Yum Brands Inc (YUM.N) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit due to strong global same-store sales growth, driven by robust demand at its Taco Bell restaurants and lower costs at its KFC chain.
5. No Gilead Sciences M&A Yet, but CEO Offers Hint of Deals to Come
Gilead’s first-quarter conference call delivered another opportunity for analysts to ask management, “Who are you going to buy and when?”
6. MakeMyTrip to raise $330 million from Naspers, Ctrip and others – ETtech
MakeMyTrip has unveiled aggressive plans, particularly in the hotels and packages segment, to consolidate its leadership position in the country.
7. Tesla Earnings: What to Watch
Tesla Inc.’s first-quarter financial results are expected to be released after the market closes on Wednesday.
8. Tesla is the most painful stock to be short so far in 2017
Traders short selling Tesla’s soaring stock have lost $3.7 billion this year, eclipsing the combined losses of traders shorting Apple, Amazon.com and Netflix.
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As is tradition Panos Panay handed out the Surface Laptop to an audience member to demonstrate the new burgundy color.
The Surface Laptop will ship in four colors platinum burgundy cobalt blue and graphite gold and it under three pounds in weight.
Microsoft has integrated vapor chambers into the aluminum finish on the rear of the device to help keep the Surface Laptop cool.
During a tour at sprawling Redmond Washington headquarters last month the Surface team showed off the evolution starting from the first more than a mashup of parts from older Microsoft the finished product.
The engineers and designers spent two years working on the machine creating multiple prototypes and inviting partners like Intel to set up shop right on campus.
The finished laptop milled from a slab of custom aluminum alloy has no screws or holes save for a pair of microphones to converse with Cortana voice assistant.
Between the cost in addition to the dock you also have to supply a mouse keyboard monitor and the Galaxy to make it all work and limitations which get into most people are still better served by a standard Windows or Mac laptop or even a Chromebook.
The browser does have its limits it struggles with the proprietary content management system we use at The Verge and Adobe Flash support is obviously out of the question but for the most part it loads pages just like Chrome or Safari does on a full computer.
More frustrating is that the system remember any of my window arrangements when I switch modes so every time I sit down at my desk and dock the phone I have to reopen my apps and rearrange my workspace.
Teachers also choose Windows for rich peripheral support including amazing new STEM lesson plans with Arduino boards Education tools to enable accessibility virtual reality headsets interactive whiteboards and more.
Together with OneNote Class Notebooks and new assignment and quiz experiences teachers can easily distribute content grade work personalize learning and communicate with students parents and staff.
STEM Saturdays bring classrooms to Microsoft Store and offer experiences like building a sensor that measures the flexion and extension of a finger to learn about the anatomy of a human hand.
Right now that can be done manually or by asking Siri to turn the volume up or down or skip to next song but it appears some way to have more control of media by touching or tapping the AirPods themselves is desirable.
What makes this question interesting is the fact that while our respondents mainly lean to early tech adoption we do not have a massive group of hardcore Apple fanatics.
Lastly we wanted to see how much our participants in the study still defaulted to old habits or trust AirPods enough to completely go wireless and fully ditch their wired headphones.
We are seeing a kind of delay in purchasing behavior that we think is a consequence of the number of rumors and reports about future products Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC Josh Lipton.
But Wall Street is counting on one key statistic to drive the company earnings higher later this year million iPhones may be set for an upgrade this fall according to venture capitalist Gene Munster.
Apple biggest Asian revenue source has been under pressure as the strength of the Hong Kong dollar dampens shopping from mainland China.
and slightly lower than the billion that Wall Street expected.
Once again Apple CEO Tim Cook touted the services business this time in the second paragraph of its earnings press release.
thrilled with the strong momentum of our Services business with our highest revenue ever for a Services revenue grew about billion versus the quarter the best of product segments.
The new version of its operating system Windows S will run only applications that have been vetted by Microsoft and placed in its online app store to prevent students from downloading software that could slow the performance of their computers.
Karon Weber demonstrated projects from the Hacking STEM Ian Bates for The New York Times The tools are designed to be easy enough for teachers to use since many schools do not have dedicated technology administrators.
Officials at Omaha Public Schools which spends about annually on Microsoft software and is investing million to buy students Windows devices welcomed the more comprehensive approach to the classroom.
About CEO Neil Vogel said the dot is a nod to the period that was core to the old logo while a dash is a typographic symbol used to move things toward next.
parent the company IAC decided to rebrand the publisher because while it had name recognition its articles were so broad that nobody thought of it as a resource for any one topic.
a new name that takes you out of the realm of a consumer offer and into one that speaks specifically to the advertising community that makes a lot of sense said Rick Wise the CEO of brand strategy firm Lippincott.
Between the cost in addition to the dock you also have to supply a mouse keyboard monitor and the Galaxy to make it all work and limitations which get into most people are still better served by a standard Windows or Mac laptop or even a Chromebook.
The browser does have its limits it struggles with the proprietary content management system we use at The Verge and Adobe Flash support is obviously out of the question but for the most part it loads pages just like Chrome or Safari does on a full computer.
More frustrating is that the system remember any of my window arrangements when I switch modes so every time I sit down at my desk and dock the phone I have to reopen my apps and rearrange my workspace.
$REPH Recro Pharma Reports Top-Line Results from Phase III Safety Study of IV Meloxicam – SI
$DISCA Discovery Communications reports Q1 earnings below expectations as subscribers cut the cord