1. HTGM: $HTGM HTG Molecular’s stock soars again after CE mark obtained for assay used in lung tumor analysis

2. FEYE:  $FEYE Goldman Sachs Upgrades FireEye, Inc to Buy, $15 PT

3. BEBE:  $BEBE Bebe Stores Hire Advisers as Retail Shakeout Continues – WSJ

4. PVH:  $PVH Share of Calvin Klein parent PVH soar after earnings – MW

5. INSY:  $INSY Insys Therapeutics Syndros is now Schedule II Drug According to DEA – SI

6. MLHR:  $MLHR Herman Miller Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2017 Results – PRN

7. SCS:  $SCS Raymond James Upgrades Steelcase to Strong Buy, $19 PT

8. CYNO, PENN:  $PENN Penn National Gaming will replace Cynosure $CYNO in S&P SmallCap 600 prior to open Mon, Mar 27

9. SGYP:  $SGYP Synergy Pharmaceuticals Weakness a Buying Opportunity – BTIG

10. LJPC:  $LJPC La Jolla Pharmaceutical announces pricing of public offering – Reuters

11. GSK, REGN:  $REGN GSK $GSK and Regeneron to mine gene data from 500,000 Britons – Reuters

12. CPB:  $CPB Campbell Soup Declares $0.35 Quarterly Dividend; Approves $1.5B Buyback – SI

13. MSFT, TM:  $MSFT Microsoft Licenses Patents to Toyota $TM In Bid For Bigger Car-Tech Role – WSJ

14. STML: $STML Stemline Announces Completion of Enrollment in Stage 3 of the SL-401 Pivotal Trial in BPDCN – GN

15. ARWR: $ARWR Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Adopts Stockholder Rights Agreement – BW

16. KDMN: $KDMN Kadmon Reports Upcoming Milestones and Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results – SI

17. VRX: $VRX Valeant Pharma CEO Joe Papa total compensation was $62.7 million in 2016 – SI

18. CAT:  $CAT Caterpillar Says Federal Probe Goes Beyond Tax Issues – TheStreet

19. PPG:  $PPG PPG’s McGarry in Amsterdam to promote ‘compelling’ Akzo offer – Reuters

20. MYL:  $MYL Mylan recalls 81,00 EpiPens outside US after reports of failure – Rueters

21. CAG:  $CAG Conagra shares fall after sales miss – MW

22. CHL:  $CHL China Mobile books flat 2016 profit, ups dividend ratio for first time in decade – Nasdaq

23. ACN:  $ACN Accenture Profit Edges Views, Sales Growth Slower Than Expected – IBD

24. CHMI:  $CHMI Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment to Offer 4.5M in Common Stock – SI

25. SHLD:  $SHLD With Sears’ future in doubt, vendors begin pulling back – Reuters

26. BLCM:  $BLCM Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

27. FI:  $FI Frank’s International Says Some Mosing Family Members Sold ~5.6M Shares – SI

28. RARE:  $RARE Ultragenyx falls on results of seizure medication study – MW

29. HTBX:  $HTBX Heat Biologics Prices 5M Share Offering at $0.80 – SI

1. DLTR:Credit Suisse Upgrades Dollar Tree $DLTR to Neutral

2. FEYE:$FEYE Goldman Sachs Upgrades FireEye, Inc to Buy, $15 PT

3. FEYE, PFPT:FireEye upgraded to Buy from Sell at Goldman $FEYE $PFPT

4. KR:Kroger shoots higher after RBC upgrade

5. SCS:$SCS Raymond James Upgrades Steelcase to Strong Buy, $19 PT

1. MO:Altria on watch after RBC Capital downgrade

2. PFPT:Proofpoint downgraded to Sell at Goldman

3. RARE:$RARE downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at Piper. PT $70

1. AVID:$AVID reports FQ4 earnings of 13c EPS and $115.30M Revs –

2. CMC:$CMC reports FQ2 earnings of 25c EPS and $1.15B Revs –

3. ACN:$ACN reports FQ2 earnings of $1.33 EPS and $8.32B Revs –

4. CAG:$CAG reports FQ3 earnings of 48c EPS and $1.98B Revs –

1. LJPC:$LJPC 3.7m shares at 33.50

2. ARWR:$ARWR is instituting a poison pill.

3. SSH:$SSH: Sunshine Heart highlights ‘progress in successfully executing its Aquadex growth strategy’

4. SHLD:$SHLD With Sears’ future in doubt, vendors begin pulling back – Reuters

5. F:FORD MOTOR SEES 1Q ADJ. EPS 30C-35C, EST. 47C $F

1. Study of CM-24 (MK-6018) Alone and In Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Participants With Selected Advanced or Recurrent Malignancies (MK-6018-001) – Full Text View – ClinicalTrials.gov

2. DEA Schedules Insys Therapeutics’ Syndros (dronabinol oral solution) as Schedule II Drug

3. PPG’s McGarry in Amsterdam to promote ‘compelling’ Akzo offer

1. It’s not a design issue, it’s a MANUFACTURING VARIATION

There is no design issue with the controllers and no widespread proactive repair or replacement effort is underway.

If it is consumers can send their controller directly to Nintendo for the adjustment free of charge with an anticipated quick return of less than a week.

My book BLOOD SWEAT AND PIXELS telling the stories behind video games like Uncharted Destiny and Star Wars comes out on September.

2. Nintendo finally comments on JoyCon wireless problems, blames “manufacturing variation”

There is no design issue with the controllers and no widespread proactive repair or replacement effort is underway.

If it is consumers can send their controller directly to Nintendo for the adjustment free of charge with an anticipated quick return of less than a week.

My book BLOOD SWEAT AND PIXELS telling the stories behind video games like Uncharted Destiny and Star Wars comes out on September.

3. “And if this is really the way forward, subscription models, we’re all fucked.” No, if it’s only ads, we’re fucked.

For just a month you can get a handful of extras including exclusive content early access to a new UI and an offline reading list which most of us already have in Pocket.

If Ev Williams truly believes this is the to turn the corner from publishing then I stand by my original statement lost his goddamn mind.

Williams the perpetual corporate traveller that only slows to IPO before moving on to the next big idea seems to always be in the right place at the right time a la Forrest Gump.

4. INT. GOOGLE EXEC 1: Our approach to social too often feels dated EXEC 2: Let’s update Allo so you can send MP3s

Google Duo initially released last August as a mobile app for video chatting will also offer calls on Android and iOS.

Of course you can also make video and audio calls on a range of other Google platforms including Hangouts and Voice which recently received a upgrade.

For those with extensive needs mobile messaging app Allo now allows Android users to share a variety of files and with their contacts.

5. Advertisers have wanted Google to give more data on its ads for years. Google’s latest gaffe gives them leverage.

apology and promise to improve cut it with AT T The telecommunications giant is pulling some of its advertising because it says some of its ads may have run next to controversial YouTube videos.

Although it is effective in dealing with the highly fragmented nature of the digital ad world programmatic buying is still evolving as a business practice and it appears that technology has gotten ahead of the advertising.

do comment on individual customers but as announced begun an extensive review of our advertising policies and have made a public commitment to put in place changes that give brands more control over where their ads appear.

6. When U.S. Air Force wanted robots it turned to a Boston start-up. When the start-up needed money it turned to China

The white paper which was distributed to the senior levels of the Trump administration this week concludes that United States government controls that are supposed to protect potentially critical technologies are falling short according to three people knowledgeable about its contents who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Some especially those making hardware rather than mobile apps said Chinese money was sometimes the only available Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times Trump administration officials and lawmakers are raising broad questions about economic relationship with the United States.

Chinese investors have a bigger appetite for risk and a willingness to do deals fast said chief executive Max Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times To demonstrate his capabilities to the Air Force Versace said Neurala used its software on a ground drone from Best Buy to make it recognize and follow around the secretary then Deborah Lee James during a meeting.

7. US-made Killer Mobile spyware resold in Russia by OpenGSM:

CLOSE More Options.

No matter how senior you get in an organization no matter how well you perceived to be doing your job is never done.

8. Apple always had a powerful OS-level task automation tool. Next step on iPad ➡️ laptop transition.

worked closely with Apple from the very beginning from kickstarting our company as students attending WWDC to developing and launching Workflow and seeing its amazing success on the App Store.

This makes sense and glad to see it because Workflow itself was a prime meat example of how to find a need in the iOS ecosystem tackle it in an interesting way and execute it with cleverness and attention to honoring the platform.

The special sauce of Workflow is that it enables users to dip into specific functions of individual apps and connect those actions together into a string of seamless invisible commands.

9. Stay on top of the latest news with a curated collection of stories in your industry — new on LinkedIn:

They help you discover and discuss news ideas and diverse perspectives from the largest group of professionals publishers and editorial voices ever assembled.

Trending Storylines include multiple perspectives ranging from relevant Influencers and news publishers to people in your network so you can quickly access diverse opinions find new voices to follow and join the conversation.

In the future you can also start following people and topics that you discover within storylines and as you do so your LinkedIn Feed will increasingly reflect your professional interests.

10. The Pentagon asks: How does China beat it to investments in promising U.S. start-ups?

The white paper which was distributed to the senior levels of the Trump administration this week concludes that United States government controls that are supposed to protect potentially critical technologies are falling short according to three people knowledgeable about its contents who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Some especially those making hardware rather than mobile apps said Chinese money was sometimes the only available Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times Trump administration officials and lawmakers are raising broad questions about economic relationship with the United States.

Chinese investors have a bigger appetite for risk and a willingness to do deals fast said chief executive Max Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times To demonstrate his capabilities to the Air Force Versace said Neurala used its software on a ground drone from Best Buy to make it recognize and follow around the secretary then Deborah Lee James during a meeting.

“Looking at the quarter in isolation, its not great, but looking forward, which is what the market is going to focus on, it actually looks fairly bright,” said Logan Purk, an analyst with Edward Jones.

 Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith said in a conference call with analysts that the company expects a margin of “15 percent plus in the current quarter” for the ground segment, and was broadly optimistic beyond that.

“Margins, cash flows and returns are going to increase over the next several years,” he said.

In the Chat Room  we posted our Bullish earning play on $FDX  – 100% winner

1. UNXL: $UNXL UniPixel Signs Long-Term Agreement with Major U.S.-based PC Maker to Supply XTouch Sensors -PRN

2. DLTH:  $DLTH Duluth Holdings beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

3. IDRA:  $IDRA JMP Securities Starts Idera Pharmaceuticals at Market Outperform, $8 PT

4. RUN:  $RUN UBS Upgrades Sunrun to Buy, “accelerating prospects out of 4Q; gives us confidence”, $6.50 PT

5. ACHN:  $ACHN Achillion Pharma Granted USPTO Matter Patent for Alternative Pathway Factor D Inhibitors – SI

6. FDX:  $FDX FedEx misses on earnings, but sees higher margins ahead – Reuters

7. URBN:  $URBN KeyBanc Upgrades Urban Outfitters, Inc. to Overweight, $28 PT

8. SNAP:  $SNAP Drexel Hamilton Starts Snap Inc at Buy, $30 PT

9. SLW:  $SLW Silver Wheaton beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

10. OPK:  $OPK OPKO Receives FDA Orphan Drug Status for New Oligonucleotide to Treat Genetic Neurological Disorder

11. SHPG:  $SHPG Shire Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Recombinant ADAMTS13 – PRN

12. VRX:  $VRX Valeant Completes Refinancing Transactions – PRN

13. CRM: $CRM Marc Benioff Doesn’t See Salesforce Doing a Lot of M&A – BBG

14. IMMY, MNK: $MNK Imprimis $IMMY Challenges Mallinckrodt’s Acthar – Benzinga

15. CCXI: $CCXI ChemoCentryx Receives FDA Orphan Designation for Avacopan, a C3 Glomerulopathy Treatment – SI

16. SCS: $SCS Steelcase board raises dividend, company earnings disappoint – MW

17. PPG: $PPG PPG Increases Bid for Akzo Nobel to $24 Billion but Is Rejected Again – WSJ

18. NVS: $NVS Novartis heart drug portfolio hit by failed serelaxin study – Reuters

19. LB:  $LB KeyBanc Downgrades L Brands to Underweight, $40 PT

20. CS:  $CS SYMBOL CORRECTION: Credit Suisse to disclose capital-raising plans soon, CEO tells FuW – Reuters

21. CSIQ:  $CSIQ Credit Suisse to disclose capital-raising plans soon, CEO tells FuW – Reuters

22. VTL:  $VTL Vital Therapies Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

23. AAL:  $AAL Morgan Stanley Downgrades American Airlines to Equalweight, $44 PT

24. DEA:  $DEA Easterly Government Properties Commences 4.3M Common Stock Offering – SI

25. ADAP:  $ADAP Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc Proposes Public Offering of American Depositary Shares – GN

26. ING:  $ING ING shares drop after disclosure of criminal probe; says ‘significant’ penalties possible – MW

27. NKE:  $NKE Nike Sales Disappoint On Tepid U.S. Growth – Forbes

28. WIN:  $WIN Goldman Sachs Reinstates Windstream at Sell, $4.50 PT

29. RGNX:  $RGNX Regenxbio prices offering of 3.70 mln shares at $20.50/share – Reuters

30. IMMY:  $IMMY Imprimis Pharma to Raise $3.1M in Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock – SI

31. IMMY:  $IMMY Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2016 Financial Results – SI

32. FTR:  $FTR Goldman Sachs Downgrades Frontier Communications to Sell, $1.50 PT

33. SHLD:  $SHLD Sears Acknowledges ‘Substantial’ Fears It Could Go Bankrupt – Fortune

1. RUN:$RUN UBS Upgrades Sunrun to Buy, “accelerating prospects out of 4Q; gives us confidence”, $6.50 PT

2. URBN:$URBN KeyBanc Upgrades Urban Outfitters, Inc. to Overweight, $28 PT

1. FTR:$FTR Goldman Sachs Downgrades Frontier Communications to Sell, $1.50 PT

2. LB:$LB KeyBanc Downgrades L Brands to Underweight, $40 PT

EARNINGS

1. PERY:$PERY reports FQ4 earnings of 66c EPS and $204.18M Revs –

2. WGO:$WGO reports FQ2 earnings of 48c EPS and $370.51M Revs –

1. FDX:$FDX FedEx misses on earnings, but sees higher margins ahead – Reuters

2. NKE:One thing to note about the market, and especially the Dow, today. Nike is big reason futures are lower. $NKE down 6% #premarket. Ouch!

1. Tencent’s Performance Problem

2. PPG Increases Bid for Akzo Nobel to $24 Billion but Is Rejected Again

1. UK bans laptops in cabin luggage in flights from: • Turkey • Lebanon • Jordan • Egypt • Tunisia • Saudi Arabia

Simon Calder travel editor of the Independent told the BBC the ban would particularly affect passengers who booked cheaper hand tickets but would now have to pay to check a bag in.

It is not the result of a specific identified terrorist plot but of mounting concern in US and British intelligence circles at the ongoing interest amongst jihadist groups in the Middle East in blowing up a passenger plane in.

The editor of Aviation Security International Philip Baum told the BBC that encouraging people to check laptops and other such items into the luggage hold simply makes the challenge of screening even harder.

2. I will be resigning from Baidu and opening up a new chapter of my work in AI. Details here:

Baidu is now one of the few companies with expertise in every major AI area speech NLP computer vision machine learning knowledge graph.

been an honor to lead the AI Group and work with remarkable team from the executive leadership to the brilliant engineers scientists product managers and others.

Wang Haifeng the new head of the AI Group is a fantastic researcher and technology leader his leadership firmly positions the team for future greatness.

3. UK airlines affected by electronics ban include British Airways, EasyJet,

If the accompanying guardian is travelling on the same flight on a separate booking please select Continue.

To change your flight please select Go back.

Specific rules may apply to entry to certain destinations for passengers aged and under who are travelling without their parent or legal guardian.

4. YCombinator is adapting to the death of Obamacare by funding a medical debt collection startup:

Intelligent software that collects debts with recovery rate Schedule free demo.

Our intelligent software automatically reaches out to customers that did pay in time so you will never need to manually chase them again.

Aaron Norair Since we have started automating our accounts receivable with Collecty our DSO has decreased by almost.

5. Android O will limit what apps can do in the background to save battery life

In the pursuit of better battery life Google is planning to limit what Android apps can do in the background.

On Android O which the company announced today apps will be limited in three areas implicit broadcasts background services and location updates.

Apps typically do anything when triggered by an implicit broadcast so they just waste processing power and battery life.

6. If you’re gonna try and be anonymous, don’t put a burner SIM in your personal iPhone you use with iCloud…

But on Friday after taking all those precautions a man named John Rivello was arrested for sending tweets to Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald.

The arrest came three months and a day after the initial incident and a newly unsealed complaint reveals how police tracked the man down.

A prepaid SIM is enough to keep the phone network from knowing who you are but your device itself also creates a powerful identity trail particularly for iCloud users.

7. We’re working to resolve a reported issue affecting sign-in for Outlook and OneDrive consumers. Check

8. Asking ppl to check in laptops flies in the face of earlier US concerns over lithium batteries in cargo hold

Despite the backdrop of rivalry between Gulf carriers and their US competitors aviation expert Keith Mackey told Al Jazeera NewsGrid that there were valid security threats that would justify such action.

What happens is terror alerts are received throughout the world by governments some of them are specific and some of them are and the agencies involved decide the safest course of action he said citing previous incidences of groups like ISIL planting explosives in electronic gadgets.

While there is no hint or mention of economic competition motivating Tuesday ban among US officials frequent travellers between the US and the Middle East are considering making alternative arrangements to flying on Gulf airlines.

9.

10. I asked Apple and confirmed: the new iPad’s screen is NOT laminated. Show Notes!

You could make a strong argument that a refurb iPad Air is a much better value if what going to do with your tablet is mostly read text and watch video you need the significantly more powerful processor to drive those things but the better display will be extremely noticeable.

The US and UK today banned people from bringing devices than a on direct flights from various Muslim countries a new rule that appears to have been rushed out and involves many many inconsistencies.

Adi Robertson dived into the long history of companies which started off as online phone books but now basically exist as scammy enterprises that make it easier for trolls to dox people.

Apple ($AAPL) has been a solid performer in 2017 with 20%+ year to date solid gains, we have been long in core position and also we added to our trading portfolio yesterday (march 20, 2017) $AAPL April 21, 2017 142 CALLS at… looking for a new time high..we are still looking for 161 as one of the targets for $AAPL. We will post in Chat Room

1. PTIE: $PTIE Pain Therapeutics Announces Positive Regulatory Guidance for REMOXY™ ER – GN

2. HTBX:  $HTBX Heat Biologics Announces Positive Interim Phase 2 Data – SI

3. ATNM:  $ATNM Actinium Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from EU Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

4. FRAN:  $FRAN Francesca’s Holdings tops Street 4Q forecasts – AP

5. DB:  $DB Justice Dept. closed investigation into Deutsche Bank currency manipulation – CNN

6. DB:  $DB Deutsche Bank Said to Face Regulatory Fines Over Currency Trades – BBG

7. AUPH:  $AUPH Aurinia Closes US$173.1 Million Public Offering – BW

8. OCUL:  $OCUL Ocular Therapeutix CFO Resigns – SI

9. WMT:  $WMT Walmart Expands Its E-Commerce Ambitions With a New Investment Arm – Dealbook

10. PPG: $PPG PPG Said to Prepare New Akzo Bid After $22.4 Billion Failed – BBG

11. LE: $LE Lands’ End reports wider loss, but adjusted profit beats expectations – MW

12. AKAO: $AKAO Ian R. Friedland, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Achaogen Resigns – SI

13. LEN: $LEN Lennar beats profit and sales expectations as home deliveries increase – MW

14. SSH:  $SSH Sunshine Heart files for offering of Class A units of up to $5 mln – Reuters

15. GBDC:  $GBDC Golub Capital BDC, Inc. Announces Public Offering – PRN

16. MMSI:  $MMSI Merit Medical Announces Commencement of Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

17. GIS:  $GIS General Mills Falls as Third-Quarter Revenue Misses Estimates – BBG

18. CALA:  $CALA Calithera Biosciences, Inc. Offering 4.5M shares – GN

19. DB:  $DB CORRECTION Deutsche Bank down 5% in premarket, we have some bad closing prices in system

20. GEL:  $GEL Genesis Energy Prices 4M Share Public Offering – SI

21. LJPC:  $LJPC La Jolla Pharmaceutical Plans $100M Common Stock Offering – SI

22. CSIQ:  $CSIQ Canadian Solar Inc. Bottom Line Drops 77% In Q4 – Nasdaq

1. CCL:Carnival Corp was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at William Blair $CCL

2. PGR:Sandler O’Neill Upgrades Progressive to Buy $PGR

3. TECK:$TECK coming off Support at $20 could rally to $25-26 use $19 as a STOP upgraded to buy today @ Deutsche Bank

4. WYNN:Yesterday takeover rumors & today Aegis upgraded $WYNN to Buy . Target increased to $125 from $95 Funny market

1. CAG, CPB:Bernstein analysts downgrade a slew of consumer staples stocks to UNDERPERFORM from prior market perform, incl: $CAG $CPB $GIS $K $SJM

2. GNMX:$GNMX downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies. PT $2.50

1. LEN:$LEN reports FQ1 earnings of 59c EPS and $2.34B Revs –

2. GIS:$GIS reports FQ3 earnings of 72c EPS and $3.79B Revs –

3. FRAN:$FRAN reports FQ4 earnings of 39c EPS and $146.35M Revs –

4. CSIQ:$CSIQ reports FQ4 earnings of 24c EPS and $668.43M Revs –

5. CCE:$CCE reports FQ4 earnings of 46c EPS and $2.78B Revs –

1. WYNN:David Bain, ex Sterne Agee upgrading $WYNN to BUY from Neutral , price tgt to $121 from $95

2. GIS:General Mills $GIS Tops Q3 EPS by 1c, Sales Light; Reaffirms

3. ATNM:$ATNM Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from the European Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

1. Aurinia Closes US$173.1 Million Public Offering of Common Shares and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Common Shares

2. Goldman to move hundreds of staff from London pre-Brexit: Europe CEO

3. Deutsche Bank Said to Face Regulatory Fines Over Currency Trades

4. Apple launches new 9.7-Inch iPad for $329

5. Tillerson no-show at NATO renews European disquiet about Trump

6. Actinium Announces Receipt of Positive Scientific Advice from the European Medicines Agency for Iomab-B

1. This will have enormous economic impact. It is also a direct attack on so-called “skills based” immigration

A representative of Saudi Arabian Airlines based at JFK International Airport in New York told BuzzFeed News that the ban begins immediately and covers all electronic devices excluding cell phones.

intelligence indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressively pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items.

All these countries are US allies many of them crucial ones Turkey is a NATO member Egypt is the recipient of American military aid and Qatar hosts the forward operating headquarters of the US Central Command.

2. We know brands want more choice about where their ads appear. How we’re expanding safeguards for advertisers →

why we been conducting an extensive review of our advertising policies and tools and why we made a public commitment last week to put in place changes that would give brands more control over where their ads appear.

also tighten safeguards to ensure that ads show up only against legitimate creators in our YouTube Partner Program opposed to those who impersonate other channels or violate our community guidelines.

We be hiring significant numbers of people and developing new tools powered by our latest advancements in AI and machine learning to increase our capacity to review questionable content for advertising.

3. Merger of Vodafone India unit and Idea Cellular to create company twice as big as AT&T

Cost savings for the merged unit will help it challenge billionaire Mukesh Reliance Jio Infocomm which has spurred consolidation after offering free calls and data since last year.

deal should be viewed as a positive giving Vodafone and Idea scale to help reduce costs Saeed Baradar a telecoms sales specialist at Louis Capital Markets UK said in a note.

The agreement shows that Vodafone increasingly becoming a holding company is willing to relinquish partial control of its most troubled assets Stephane Beyazian an analyst with Raymond James in London wrote in a note.

4. After weeks of testing, DoorDash robot delivery begins this Thursday in Redwood City:

DoorDash is putting a small fleet of delivery robots into action for the first time in Redwood City California following weeks of tests.

The robots built by a company called Starship Technologies are about the size of a golden retriever and roll around sidewalks with relative ease.

Though a significant amount of attention has been directed towards autonomous driving as a potential job killer specifically for long haul trucking delivery robots appear poised to go mainstream much sooner.

5. If you’re going to ban any particular people from having computers because of security, wouldn’t it be Russians?

US authorities have secretly required airlines from eight nations to forbid passengers from carrying any electronic or electrical device larger than a cellphone.

The lack of specificity leaves airlines in the dark as to whether their employees will be cited or otherwise punished for performing the vital functions of aircraft crew as usual.

Royal Jordanian airways notifies its passengers that they will not be allowed to have tablet computers laptops or game consoles on flights to and from the US Photograph Sam In a tweet from its official account Saudia also warned its customers that new security measures were introduced by the TSA and would be enforced from Tuesday.

6. “We’re not a photo sharing company,” says @Kevin Systrom, the CEO of @Instagram.

The story of how Systrom and cofounder Mike Krieger went from coding Instagram at a tech incubator on San Pier in to selling their startup months later to Facebook for more than million remains a Silicon Valley fairy tale.

big change happened when we decided to go says Systrom who with his beard quilted blazer and wooden water bottle has a sense of style befitting the cocreator of a tool for sharing beautiful photography.

Today Systrom says the mission is relationships through shared The idea underpinning this goal is that Instagram should offer users a more overt and unvarnished way to connect through the universal language of broadcast moments and not just snapshots.

7. Surely it’s no coincidence that @Apple new iMessage Stickers ad is basically an AR demo:

Run by a former Dolby Laboratories executive the group includes engineers who worked on the Oculus and HoloLens virtual reality headsets sold by Facebook and Microsoft as well as wizards from Hollywood.

Among them the people say Cody White former lead engineer of Amazon Lumberyard virtual reality platform Duncan McRoberts Meta former director of software development Yury Petrov a former Oculus researcher and Avi who worked on the HoloLens and Google Earth.

The company has also mined the movie industry animation ranks the people said opening a Wellington office and luring several employees from Weta Digital the New Zealand shop that worked on King Kong Avatar and other films.

8. The directive will impact over a dozen airlines flying into the US.

The intelligence community has been tracking this threat for some time but the official said that some information from a recent Special Forces raid in Yemen contributed to the ongoing concern.

Emirates another big carrier from the UAE said it had yet received any notification but would comply with any new operational or regulatory requirements issued by the relevant authorities.

Saudi Arabian Airlines told its customers in a statement on Twitter that new measures from the Transportation Security Administration include a ban on laptops and tablets like iPads and Kindles in baggage on flights to the.

9. Google: “We’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content” #funding #hatespeech

So starting today taking a tougher stance on hateful offensive and derogatory content Philipp Schindler chief business officer wrote in a blog announcing the changes late Monday night.

The moves are aimed at rebutting criticism the search giant has not done enough to curb hate speech online but they also thrust Google further into a heated public debate over censorship and political ideologies.

Its prior ads policy was fairly boilerplate restricting content that contains harassment and incites violence against groups based on race religion or gender identity.

10. Hidden in this article is mention that Apple has opened a Wellington office

Run by a former Dolby Laboratories executive the group includes engineers who worked on the Oculus and HoloLens virtual reality headsets sold by Facebook and Microsoft as well as wizards from Hollywood.

Among them the people say Cody White former lead engineer of Amazon Lumberyard virtual reality platform Duncan McRoberts Meta former director of software development Yury Petrov a former Oculus researcher and Avi who worked on the HoloLens and Google Earth.

The company has also mined the movie industry animation ranks the people said opening a Wellington office and luring several employees from Weta Digital the New Zealand shop that worked on King Kong Avatar and other films.

1. CTMX: $CTMX CytomX’s stock rockets after expanding Bristol-Myers collaboration – MW

2. ESPR:  $ESPR Esperion Therapeutics Sees Clear FDA Path For Its Heart Drug – Fortune

3. DDC:  $DDC Dominion Diamond Receives $13.50 per Share All-Cash Proposal from The Washington Companies – SI

4. NKTR:  $NKTR Nektar pain drug NKTR-181 hits endpoint in phase 3 – fierce bio

5. ARLZ:  $ARLZ Aralez CEO Purchases 500,000 Shares Of Company Common Stock On Open Market – PRN

6. FEYE:  $FEYE BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades FireEye, Inc to Buy, “Eyeing A Turnaround”, $18 PT

7. SFM:  $SFM Albertsons Said to Weigh Merger With Organic Grocer Sprouts – BBG

8. LPLA:  $LPLA Goldman Sachs Upgrades LPL Investment to Conviction Buy, $47 PT

9. LLY:  $LLY Lilly’s breast cancer drug combination succeeds key study – Reuters

10. SNAP:  $SNAP Monness, Crespi, Hardt Starts Snap Inc at Buy, $25 PT

11. CIEN, OCLR:  $OCLR Oclaro Selected by Ciena $CIEN as Long-Term Partner in Development of 400G Coherent Network – SI

12. NVDA:  $NVDA Goldman Continues To Pound The Table On Nvidia Bull Story

13. INTC, MBLY:  $MBLY Mobileye could be looking to see if it can get higher offers $INTC – NYPost

14. PPG: $PPG Elliott Management Owns Stake in Akzo Nobel, Pushes for Talks With Suitor PPG – WSJ

15. DOC: $DOC Physicians Realty Trust Announces Closing of Public Offering

16. VOD: $VOD Vodafone to create Indian leader with Idea merger – MW

17. MULE:  $MULE MuleSoft Eyes Acquisitions After Soaring in U.S. Trading Debut – BBG

18. DB:  $DB Deutsche Bank Says Revenue to Stay ‘Broadly Flat’ This Year – BBG

19. DB:  $DB Deutsche Bank Seeks $8.6B in Share Sale – BBG

20. MOV:  $MOV Movado’s stock drops after disappointing results and outlook, job cuts – MOV

21. ARRY:  $ARRY Array Biopharma Withdraws NDA for Binimetinib Monotherapy to Treat Melanoma – SI

22. PULM:  $PULM Pulmatrix 8K, offering up to $11M of stock – SI

23. GNMX:  $GNMX Aevi Genomic Medicine Says SAGA Trial of AEVI-001 Did Not Meet Primary Endpoint – SI

1. ALK:Alaska Air upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel

2. FEYE:$FEYE BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades FireEye, Inc to Buy, “Eyeing A Turnaround”, $18 PT

3. ILMN:Leerink Swann Upgrades Illumina to Buy $ILMN

4. LPLA:$LPLA Goldman Sachs Upgrades LPL Investment to Conviction Buy, $47 PT

5. TIF:Tiffany rises on William Blair upgrade

1. GOOG, GOOGL:Pivotal downgrades Alphabet to Neutral on brand safety concerns $GOOGL $GOOG

2. NEOS:Neos Therapeutics was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at UBS $NEOS

1. BCEI:$BCEI reports FQ4 earnings of -57c EPS and $47.27M Revs –

2. MOV:$MOV reports FQ4 earnings of 22c EPS and $130.79M Revs –

3. DXLG:$DXLG reports FQ4 earnings of 2c EPS and $122.65M Revs –

1. ESPR:$ESPR FDA Confims LDL-C lowering program is adequate to support approval of an LDL-C lowering indication for bempedoic acid

2. CERU:$CERU halted pending news!

3. BMY:CTLA-4 bound for the clinic, Bristol-Myers hands CytomX $200M to kick off an expanded discovery pact $BMY $CTMX

4. NKTR:$NKTR halted

5. FEYE:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades FireEye, Inc $FEYE to Buy, “Eyeing A Turnaround”

6. SFM:$SFM Albertsons Said to Weigh Merger With Organic Grocer Sprouts – BBG

7. SHAK:$SHAK upgraded at Wedbush

8. JAZZ:$JAZZ positive pIII data OSA

1. NKTR-181 Meets Primary and Secondary Endpoints in Phase 3 SUMMIT-07 Study in Chronic Pain (NASDAQ:NKTR)

2. Nektar Addiction-Resistant Opioid Reduces Chronic Pain in Late-Stage Study

3. Nektar pain drug NKTR-181 hits endpoint in phase 3 | FierceBiotech

1. Update on CIA #Vault7 “zero day” software vulnerabilities Ref:

The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell but Weeping Angel developed by the CIA Embedded Devices Branch EDB which infests smart TVs transforming them into covert microphones is surely its most emblematic realization.

In the wake of Edward Snowden leaks about the NSA the technology industry secured a commitment from the Obama administration that the executive would disclose on an ongoing basis rather than hoard serious vulnerabilities exploits bugs or zero days to Apple Google Microsoft and other manufacturers.

A series of standards lay out CIA malware infestation patterns which are likely to assist forensic crime scene investigators as well as Apple Microsoft Google Samsung Nokia Blackberry Siemens and companies attribute and defend against attacks.

2. Uber’s president quits, blasts the company on the way out.

is now clear however that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business he said in a statement to Recode.

the last six months Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations Kalanick wrote in a post announcing hire.

The situation at the company has deteriorated since then obviously after a blog post by a former female engineer chronicled a deeply dysfunctional management led by Kalanick that favored what board member Arianna Huffington called.

3. Minnesota judge grants police request for an entire town’s Google search history of googling a particular name

As detailed in a report from Tony Webster earlier this week a Hennepin County judge has granted the Edina Police Department an extraordinary degree of access to citizens Google history as cops attempt to crack the case of a wire transfer fraud.

Typed into Google a search for the same name Douglas something according to a warrant also turns up photos that were used on a fake passport by the criminal who was seeking a fraudulent wire transfer of.

In the case of Douglas something or other Edina police are raiding people Google history to catch a man who committed worth of bank fraud.

4. Incredible new hardware: Byte addressable, persistent. I want to build a new machine just to buy one of those.

Details on how the memory actually works remain generally believed to use some kind of change in resistance to record its performance characteristics and technical capabilities make it appealing for a wide range of applications.

The low latency and high endurance make Optane a good fit for applications like caching and database servers.

If using the PCIe bus to attach storage and then use it as memory seems a bit awkward next year Intel plans to release Optane DIMMS.

5. I wrote about @Techmeme, which I feel is probably one of the most influential websites in the tech world

For example when asked in about traffic by Business Insider Rivera told the site uniques are a particularly bad stat for aggregators like not untrue reach extends beyond homepage views but also a convenient way of dodging the question.

really fun I love when that But Techmeme still plays a singular role in spurring journalists to chase a particular type of content scooplets executive shuffles product updates that might matter more to venture capitalists and CEOs than the millions of civilian tech consumers.

Toggling between a Slack chat and the window where software routinely crawls over sites and blogs Rivera sifted through a cascade of tips before turning his attention to the innards and the tools editors use to rank stories.

6. To quote the EFF: “Holy shit. Case name should be In re Minnesota Unconstitutional General Warrant.”

Police in a small suburban town of people just outside Minneapolis Minnesota have won a court order requiring Google to determine who has used its search engine to look up the name of a local financial fraud victim.

The court order demanding such a massive search is perhaps the most expansive one we seen unconnected to the US national security apparatus and if carried out could set an Orwellian precedent in a bid by the Edina Police Department to solve a crime worth less than.

The Edina Police Department declined to comment other than to tell Webster that the agency would be reluctant to disclose active case information or specific strategies used during the investigation.

7. Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM

Details on how the memory actually works remain generally believed to use some kind of change in resistance to record its performance characteristics and technical capabilities make it appealing for a wide range of applications.

The low latency and high endurance make Optane a good fit for applications like caching and database servers.

If using the PCIe bus to attach storage and then use it as memory seems a bit awkward next year Intel plans to release Optane DIMMS.

8. An open source victory over stupidity: 20,000 university lectures withdrawn by Berkeley irrevocably made available

Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

While other archive teams have also backed up these lectures using traditional methods publishing them to LBRY offers greater openness usability and robustness.

The LBRY protocol provides a completely decentralized network for discovering distributing and publishing all types of content and information from books to movies.

9. Uber CEO Kalanick in staff note said it was “unfortunate that this was announced through the press” #sorrynotsorry:

is now clear however that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business he said in a statement to Recode.

the last six months Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations Kalanick wrote in a post announcing hire.

The situation at the company has deteriorated since then obviously after a blog post by a former female engineer chronicled a deeply dysfunctional management led by Kalanick that favored what board member Arianna Huffington called.

10. Not surprisingly, found this story about TechMeme’s longstanding value to the tech industry on TechMeme –…

For example when asked in about traffic by Business Insider Rivera told the site uniques are a particularly bad stat for aggregators like not untrue reach extends beyond homepage views but also a convenient way of dodging the question.

really fun I love when that But Techmeme still plays a singular role in spurring journalists to chase a particular type of content scooplets executive shuffles product updates that might matter more to venture capitalists and CEOs than the millions of civilian tech consumers.

Toggling between a Slack chat and the window where software routinely crawls over sites and blogs Rivera sifted through a cascade of tips before turning his attention to the innards and the tools editors use to rank stories.

1. HTBX: $HTBX Heat Biologics Announces $981K Grant From Florida DOH to Develop gp96-based Zika Vaccine – SI

2. FRSH:  $FRSH Papa Murphy’s Tops Q4 EPS by 7c, Sales Miss – SI

3. GPRO:  $GPRO GoPro Surges 10%: Cutting 270 Jobs to Reduce OpEx; Sees FYQ1 at High End of Range – Barron’s

4. JASO:  $JASO JA Solar Q4 Profit Climbs, Sees Sequentially Lower Shipments In Q1 – Quick Facts – Nasdaq

5. ALRM:  $ALRM Holdings, Inc. Tops Q4 EPS by 6c; Issues Strong Outlook – SI

6. ORCL:  $ORCL Oracle Jumps 6%: Raises Dividend 27%; FYQ4 Outlook Beats – Barron’s

7. AMZN, ORCL:  $ORCL Oracle continues to hammer at Amazon $AMZN in the cloud – MW

8. GKOS:  $GKOS Glaukos Corporation Reprts Five-Year Extensions for Three Category III CPT Codes

9. TSLA:  $TSLA Tesla Is Raising $1.15 Billion to Fund Its Model 3 – Fortune

10. WSM:  $WSM Williams Sonoma shares rise after earnings beat, dividend increase – MW

11. FLWS:  $FLWS Sells Fannie May Confections Brands to Ferrero – SI

12. VALE:  $VALE Vale to get $733 mln by end of month from Moatize stake sale to Mitsui – Reuters

13. JBL:  $JBL Jabil: FYQ2 Beats, Q3 View In-Line – Barron’s

14. PTCT:  $PTCT PTC Therapeutics to Acquire Rights to DMD Emflaza from Marathon Pharmaceuticals for $140M – SI

15. DG: $DG Dollar General’s sales beat; to raise store managers’ pay – Reuters

16. EDIT:  $EDIT Editas Medicine, Inc., Announces Proposed Offering of Common Stock – GN

17. CNAT:  $CNAT Conatus Pharmaceuticals Reports 2016 Financial Results and Program Updates – GN

18. INO:  $INO Inovio Pharmaceuticals Reports 2016 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results – GN

19. IPI:  $IPI Intrepid potash announces proposed public offering of common stock – Reuters

20. ARTX:  $ARTX Arotech Corp. Is Losing Ground After Drop In Q4 Profit – RTT

21. CVRS:  $CVRS Corindus Vascular Robotics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results – BW

22. CVRS:  $CVRS Corindus Vascular Robotics Announces Closing of Private Placement for $45 Million – BW

23. GES:  $GES Guess? Inc. Q4 Earnings Decline 28% – Nasdaq

1. ABX:Barrick Gold was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at RBC Capital $ABX

2. INFN:Infinera upgraded to Buy at Goldman Sachs; +3.96%

3. INO:$INO upgraded to Buy from Hold at Maxim. PT $10

1. BIIB:Two shops downgrade Biogen to neutral on dearth of near-term catalysts; shares ease 2% premarket

2. BIIB, IONS:Leerink lowering Spinraza sales estimates due to slow launch. $BIIB $IONS Porges downgraded $BIIB to neutral.

3. BIIB, MS:Morgan Stanley Downgrades Biogen Inc to Hold $BIIB $MS

1. DG:$DG reports FQ4 earnings of $1.49 EPS and $6.01B Revs –

2. XOMA:$XOMA reports FQ4 earnings of $-2.89 EPS and $0.52M Revs –

3. PTCT:$PTCT reports FQ4 earnings of -78c EPS and $25.19M Revs –

4. KPTI:$KPTI reports FQ4 earnings of -65c EPS and $0.05M Revs –

5. PFSW:$PFSW reports FQ4 earnings of 10c EPS and $102.46M Revs –

1. PTCT:$PTCT Agreement to Acquire Emflaza™ for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular. $140M upfront

2. TSLA:But Wall Street may be more than happy to give it to them. $TSLA up 3% #premarket.

3. WSM:$WSM Williams Sonoma shares rise after earnings beat, dividend increase – MW

4. ORCL:$ORCL +6.6% on earnings, 2.23 buyer 20,000 June $44 calls for $2.3M; 1/18 buyer 8,250 Jan. 2018 $45 calls for $980K two largest trades

1. Andy Biotech on Twitter

2. Dollar General’s sales beat; to raise store managers’ pay

3. Letter bomb at IMF’s Paris office injures employee

4. PTC Therapeutics Announces Agreement to Acquire Emflaza™ for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in U.S.

5. NOD on Twitter

6. Tesla Is Raising $1.15 Billion to Fund Its Model 3

7. Hyundai recalling nearly 1 million Sonata cars in U.S.: regulator

1. Very grateful to the FBI & DOJ for bringing to justice the Russian officials & hackers who led the attack on Yahoo.

With more than million wireless customers a shared view of the importance of mobile and video ad tech a deep content focus through AOL Verizon brings clear synergies to the table.

Nasdaq YHOO today announce they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire operating business for approximately billion in cash subject to customary closing adjustments.

The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital.

2. Just blogged: We’ve lost control of our personal data (including 33M NetProspex records)

Troy Hunt Hi I Troy Hunt I write this blog create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals.

3. App used mostly by young teenage girls leaked 2.2 millions emails and 280k cellphone numbers.

Unknown hackers apparently found an unprotected database for the app Wishbone and stole its contents which are now circulating on the internet undergrounds according to Troy Hunt a security researcher who runs the breach notification website Have I Been Pwned.

The app has since become extremely popular with bored teenagers who can vote on polls such as who better between Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga whether they are a serious or playful selfie taker and what they prefer between partying or staying home and do homework.

Given that and considering that in some instances the leak exposed the full name birthdate gender email address and cellphone number of underage girls and boys this is a serious data breach that could put the victims in danger not only of identity theft or spam.

4. Very few security folks believed Yahoo that “a state-sponsored actor” was behind the breach. More plausible now!

are no free passes for foreign criminal behavior Assistant Attorney General McCord told reporters at a press conference.

When Yahoo first disclosed the breach in September the company attributed the attack to actor a claim that some security experts found questionable at the time.

Subsequent reports found that the Yahoo database was sold a number of times suggesting a criminal profit motive rather than intelligence gathering.

5. People are paying for content again! observes @fmanjoo

More than years after it first caught mainstream attention and began to destroy everything about how we finance culture the digital economy is finally beginning to coalesce around a sustainable way of supporting content.

Even if lots of people are paying for services like Spotify critics say that it can be difficult for musicians especially smaller and ones to make a sustainable living from the platform.

This sort of alternative arrangement easy to pursue it can take time effort and skills in unusual dark arts such as how marketing works.

6. Two FSB agents named and charged. When is the last time FSB agents were directly charged with anything?

The action on Wednesday was the latest in a series of criminal prosecutions that American officials have brought since against cyberattackers who they charge were acting on behalf of foreign governments including China North Korea and Iran.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee said that with Russia blamed in the cyberattacks involving both Yahoo and the presidential election United States must take steps not only to bring those responsible to justice but also ensure future attacks are not allowed to occur in the first.

He used information from the Yahoo accounts to steal credit and gift card numbers send spam and redirect searches for erectile dysfunction treatments to an online pharmacy that paid for the traffic according to the indictment.

7. One of the two named FSB agents was arrested in January in Moscow on treason charges . . .

Ivan Pavlov a lawyer specializing in treason cases was quoted by the Interfax and state Tass news agencies as saying that FSB officials Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev and Ruslan Stoyanov were charged on Wednesday.

The source for The Daily information Kremlin adviser and parliamentarian Sergei Markov said Mikhailov was taken into custody in late December by his own FSB colleagues during a meeting a bag over his.

The Kremlin spokesman also said that while he could not confirm President Vladimir Putin was aware of all the details of the treason charges issue is not for the first day discussed in the media so along with the other materials of course these reports were presented to the.

8. The downside is that culture, news etc. becomes available only to those who can afford to pay for it

More than years after it first caught mainstream attention and began to destroy everything about how we finance culture the digital economy is finally beginning to coalesce around a sustainable way of supporting content.

Even if lots of people are paying for services like Spotify critics say that it can be difficult for musicians especially smaller and ones to make a sustainable living from the platform.

This sort of alternative arrangement easy to pursue it can take time effort and skills in unusual dark arts such as how marketing works.

9. DeepMind takes on catastrophic forgetting

As a starting point for our recent PNAS paper in which we propose an approach to overcome catastrophic forgetting in neural networks we took inspiration from theories about the consolidation of previously acquired skills and memories in mammalian and human brains.

As shown in the figure below without EWC the agent quickly forgets each game after it stops playing it blue.

By showing that those same theories can be applied in a more realistic and complex machine learning context we hope to give further weight to the idea that synaptic consolidation is key to retaining memories and.

10. According to indictment, one hired hacker manipulated Yahoo search results for erectile dysfunction drugs.

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