by Alpha | Mar 8, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. SRPT:$SRPT New data is coming from the non-ambulatory boys that will be presented to payers to change their mind & cover
3. OCRX:$OCRX halted
5. CLLS:UCART-BCMA contains an intra-CAR suicide switch . Seems different vs UCART19 $PFE $CLLS #ADOPT17…
6. PLCE:$PLCE crushed EPS and +6.9% comps, one of the healthier retail stories
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1. We bought Snapchat parent on the IPO, legendary investor David Tepper says
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper told CNBC on Wednesday he bought shares of Snap on the IPO.
2. Adidas U.S. push keeps up pressure on Nike, Under Armour
The new boss of Adidas (ADSGn.DE) increased sales and profit targets on Wednesday, sending shares in the German sportswear firm to a record high as he pledged to keep investing heavily in the key U.S. market and do more to boost e-commerce sales.
3. Elon Musk to join Trump Wednesday at infrastructure meeting: source
Elon Musk, who heads Tesla Inc and Space X, will take part in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and business leaders Wednesday on the administration’s plans to boost infrastructure spending, a White House official told Reuters.
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6. The Children’s Place Inc. Bottom Line Climbs 44% In Q4
(RTTNews.com) – The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) announced earnings for its fourth quarter that advanced compared to the same period last year. The co
7. ADP Says Companies in U.S. Added 298,000 Employees in February
Companies unexpectedly accelerated the pace of hiring in the U.S. in February, data from the ADP Research Institute in Roseland, New Jersey, showed Wednesday.
8. Amazon CEO’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Emerges as Force in Aerospace
Fledgling satellite-service provider OneWeb is expected to announce it has signed multiple contracts for satellite launches with Blue Origin, the commercial-space company run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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But Ben Wizner the director of the American Civil Liberties Speech Privacy and Technology Project said the documents suggest that the government has deliberately allowed vulnerabilities in phones and other devices to persist to make spying easier.
But James Lewis an expert on cybersecurity at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington raised another possibility that a foreign state most likely Russia stole the documents by hacking or other means and delivered them to WikiLeaks which may not know how they were obtained.
In scale the Vault archive appears to fall into the same category as the biggest leaks of classified information in recent years including the diplomatic cables taken by Chelsea Manning the former Army intelligence analyst and given to WikiLeaks in and the hundreds of thousands of National Security Agency documents taken by Snowden in.
Tinder has been operating a version of the platform called Tinder Select which is meant to serve only the elite users on the app including CEOs super models and other affluent types.
unclear exactly how Tinder decides who gets invited and who but the common thread among those on the Select app is that generally attractive and relatively.
The app used LinkedIn as a backbone for data around education and profession to determine who was allowed on the platform.
Today Instagram launched its first geostickers which let users add and arrange illustrations to their Stories posts related to their locations.
With geostickers in place the last big Snapchat feature missing from Instagram Stories is augmented reality selfie Lenses.
Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat usage which led user growth to plummet percent in the two quarters after copycat spun up.
While a wide range of candidates are being considered sources said board would prefer a woman exec for the job echoing Mark move to bring in Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook in when the social network giant was facing rougher waters.
report is expected in six weeks or so said sources while Huffington and Uber HR head Liane Hornsey are working on a series of new practices and rules for the company related to employee management.
This is all a effort to help Uber recover from a series of hits of late including an explosive blog post by a former engineer Susan Fowler who wrote about a company that operated like a version of the Wild West.
On Tuesday morning WikiLeaks released what calling Vault an unprecedented collection of internal CIA appear to be a kind of catalog the apparent hacking techniques.
certainly seems that in the CIA toolkit there were more exploits than estimated says Jason Healey a director at the Atlantic Council think tank who has focused on tracking how many of those unpatched hacking US government has stockpiled.
That includes the sandbox that limits access to the operating system and the security feature that randomizes where a program runs in memory to make it harder to corrupt adjacent software.
Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.
Today Instagram launched its first geostickers which let users add and arrange illustrations to their Stories posts related to their locations.
With geostickers in place the last big Snapchat feature missing from Instagram Stories is augmented reality selfie Lenses.
Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat usage which led user growth to plummet percent in the two quarters after copycat spun up.
Internally the neural network accomplishes this mapping incrementally by applying a series of transformations to the image which can be thought of as a vector of numbers corresponding to the pixel intensities.
This rotation is simply a PCA that aligns the major directions of variation in the data to the axes followed by a permutation to heuristically balance the variance across the splits of the product quantization.
Though these techniques are in their infancy we hope similarity search provides a useful new way to appreciate the amazing collection of images at Flickr and surface photos of interest that may have previously gone undiscovered.
Details about the transaction remain somewhat vague but given that Google is hosting its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week the official announcement could come as early as tomorrow.
The service got an early start and even though it has a few competitors like DrivenData TopCoder and HackerRank it has managed to stay well ahead of them by focusing on its specific niche.
Earlier this month Google and Kaggle teamed up to host a machine learning competition around classifying YouTube videos.
New York NY March Shazam one of the most popular apps today announced the launch of a massively scaled augmented reality AR platform for its brand partners artists and hundreds of millions of global users.
new platform can bring any marketing materials to packaging POS advertising events and by utilizing the app to scan unique The codes are capable of delivering AR experiences including animations product visualizations and videos.
This breakthrough technology offers an accessible immersive platform with which to engage in a rewarded gamification experience at the point of purchase leading up to Cinco de Mayo.
by Alpha | Mar 7, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. NDRM:$NDRM downgraded from Outperform to Perform at Oppenheimer.
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2. DKS:More trouble for retail? Dick’s beat on earnings but guidance a bit light. $DKS down 3% #premarket.
4. TGTX:LADEN $TGTX TGTX Announces Positive Top-Line GENUINE Phase 3 Data; Increase PT to $30
9. RVNC:$RVNC Completes Enrollment in P3 Pivotal Trials of RT002 Injectable for the Treatment of Glabellar Lines. Top line results Q4 17
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1. ECB doing good job in balancing needs of euro zone members: Schaeuble
The European Central Bank (ECB) is doing a good job in pursuing a monetary policy that meets the needs of the euro zone’s 19 member countries that each have their own requirements, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.
2. Japan Joins Trump in War Against Drug Prices
President Donald Trump has pledged to reverse what he describes as
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Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
Stephen Bannon President senior White House counselor has served as a Cambridge corporate Damon New York Times Drawn to America parent company the Strategic Communication Laboratories Group has a long record of trying to understand and influence behavior.
Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presided over a growing political empire that included millions of dollars in contributions to conservative groups and a stake in Breitbart whose nationalist and racially antagonistic content prefigured presidential campaign.
Mercer has never spoken publicly about his policy views in depth but his giving is eclectic He has financed documentaries media watchdogs libertarian think tanks and both Senator Ted Cruz a religious conservative and Trump a nationalist.
Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen to Twitter which is something I think about literally every day I remember this Jessica Livingston tweet from September.
On Pulse which is rolling out to all users over the next few weeks broadcasters can post to their friends and followers with a mix of text links images and videos.
Top Twitch streamers all have over million followers apiece and easy to imagine them turning to Pulse to grow their audiences and keep them entertained while not broadcasting.
The lawsuit filed by car unit Waymo has jolted the and highly competitive industry that has sprung up around autonomous vehicles and ride services which are seen as the future of private road transport.
Anthony Levandowski a key engineering manager at the car unit now called Waymo began to talk openly about leaving the company as the autonomous vehicle field blossomed according to Alphabet lawsuit.
In the lawsuit Alphabet alleges Levandowski downloaded proprietary design documents and used them to create Otto and later Uber version of a key autonomous vehicle technology called Lidar which uses light pulses reflected off objects to gauge their position.
Deep learning is not a different thing its just a cool body of work yielding state of the art results for lots of important problems and so people are rightly availing themselves of it.
As this becomes more evident over the next months and the bigcos exhaust and ramp down their appetite for AI acquihires just as they did for mobile app dev shops I suspect that we start to see potential founders and VCs realize that something is off.
Cloud providers will leave the services on but they be big money makers the MLaaS startups will start meeting their demise this year as growth goes sideways and appetite to double down on them dries up.
ET Hewlett Packard Enterprise said Tuesday it agreed to acquire Nimble Storage for about billion in cash aiming to ignite sales in its declining storage business.
The deal also calls for HP Enterprise to assume or pay out unvested equity awards with a value of about million at closing.
The cash amount is about a premium to roughly million market value as of close of trading.
Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
This afternoon the image was tweeted by President Trump with the caption should start an immediate investigation into SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin.
The image is an AP photograph from September which appeared in newspapers after Putin visited the first New York gas station of the Russian company Lukoil.
However before it was tweeted by Trump on Friday the image gained popularity the previous night on Reddit and across the fringes of the conservative internet.
Stephen Bannon President senior White House counselor has served as a Cambridge corporate Damon New York Times Drawn to America parent company the Strategic Communication Laboratories Group has a long record of trying to understand and influence behavior.
Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presided over a growing political empire that included millions of dollars in contributions to conservative groups and a stake in Breitbart whose nationalist and racially antagonistic content prefigured presidential campaign.
Mercer has never spoken publicly about his policy views in depth but his giving is eclectic He has financed documentaries media watchdogs libertarian think tanks and both Senator Ted Cruz a religious conservative and Trump a nationalist.
by Alpha | Mar 6, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. IONS:$IONS and Akcea Announce Positive Results from Pivotal Study of Volanesorsen in Patients with Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome
2. CNCE:$CNCE halt
5. TGTX:$TGTX halt
7. NOVN:$PTCT $NOVN $TGTX File…file…file… All these bio turds are pushing filings with low quality data, you know FDA will approve everything now…
9. DRYS:$DRYS- DryShips Exercises Second Option to Acquire a Very Large Gas Carrier With a 5 Year Time Charter Attached to an Oil Major
12. VRTX:$VRTX to Acquire CTP-656 from $CNCE for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
13. POLA:$POLA 2016 Net Sales up 233% to Record $22.8 Million, Driving 2016 Net Income to Record $4.4 Million
14. TSRO:TESARO Inc $TSRO US 3/6/2017 08:40am Raymond James and Associates I Conference could be interesting as many talk M&A on this one
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1. Bio Stocks™ on Twitter
“$TGTX Announces Positive Topline Data from Phase 3 GENUINE Study of TG-1101 in Combination with Ibrutinib in Patients with High Risk CLL”
2. j l on Twitter
“$PTCT got a PDUFA for translarna. Wow”
3. TG Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Data from Phase 3 GENUINE Study of TG-1101 in Combination with Ibrutinib in Patients with High Risk Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Study met its primary endpoint, with TG-1101 (ublituximab) plus ibrutinib increasing Overall Response Rate (ORR) by >70% over ibrutinib alone
4. dough on Twitter
“FBR Just out $AUPH”
5. Verizon’s Unlimited Data Offer Puts Its Reputation for Reliability at Risk
The decision to let users stream and download at will threatens profit margins and puts additional strain on the company’s network.
6. KKR Gets Record $13.9 Billion for North American Buyout Fund
KKR & Co. amassed $13.9 billion for its latest private equity fund, the most ever raised for a buyout pool focused on North America.
7. j l on Twitter
“$VRTX got whatever other CF drugs $CNCE was developing as well”
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To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
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To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
An examination of the disruption effort based on interviews with officials of the Obama and Trump administrations as well as a review of extensive but obscure public records found that the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs.
Martin Dempsey the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the program saying that directed energy and electronic attack a reference to such things as malware lasers and signal jamming were all becoming important new adjuncts to the traditional ways of deflecting enemy strikes.
Secret Push and New Doubts Not long after General Dempsey made his public announcement Obama and his defense secretary Ashton Carter began calling meetings focused on one question Could a crash program slow the march toward an intercontinental ballistic missile.
An examination of the disruption effort based on interviews with officials of the Obama and Trump administrations as well as a review of extensive but obscure public records found that the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs.
Martin Dempsey the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the program saying that directed energy and electronic attack a reference to such things as malware lasers and signal jamming were all becoming important new adjuncts to the traditional ways of deflecting enemy strikes.
Secret Push and New Doubts Not long after General Dempsey made his public announcement Obama and his defense secretary Ashton Carter began calling meetings focused on one question Could a crash program slow the march toward an intercontinental ballistic missile.
To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
On Monday Kalanick asked SVP of engineering Amit Singhal to resign after learning that he did not disclose that he was the subject of a sexual harassment investigation at his previous employer Google.
It started with a social media campaign to deleteUber over claims that the company attempted to profit off the backs of protesting taxi drivers largely unfair but which caused more than users to abandon the app.
Then there was the promotion in France that paired riders with Also Kalanick once made an idiotic pun about the Uber name calling it to an Esquire reporter since it helped him get dates.
Instead of forcing users to talk with a bot developers can choose to create a persistent menu that allows for multiple nested items as a better way of displaying all the capabilities in a simple interface.
Instead the larger update to version includes things like expanded sharing capabilities that could help bots gain more exposure tools to better match customer lists to user base a handful of new APIs improved analytics and other tweaks and features catering to specific needs.
Facebook meanwhile is quickly becoming one of the largest tech companies without a clear path to the voice future where others like Apple Google Amazon and Samsung are today intensely competing.
For instance games like Ultimate Chicken Horse let Twitch viewers vote on the hazards that will appear in a level giving them a part to play in the outcome of a match.
Better yet Lumberyard offers all kinds of integrations with Twitch including a recent service called Metastream which presents Major League statistics to the viewers of an online multiplayer match.
Built on Amazon Web Services Lumberyard and offering deep Twitch integration including that new Metastream feature Frazzini says that Breakaway is meant to prove to developers that the company knows what it talking about when it comes to games.
To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
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by Alpha | Mar 1, 2017 | Pre-Market
We went long $VXX Puts at close yesterday and they are set to open up nicely, also net long $WYNN, $TSLA, $NVDA, $VLO, $PCLN to name a few..
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1. ACAD:$ACAD PT raised to $36 from $31 at Leerink
2. LOW:EARNINGS ALERT: Lowe’s EPS beats $0.86 vs. $0.79 • revs. beat $15.784B vs. $15.386B $LOW
3. BBY:$BBY Best Buy Q4 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.95 -Revenue: $13.48B
4. AGIO:$AGIO $CELG FDA Accepts NDA and Grants Priority Review for Enasidenib in Relapsed or Refractory AML with an IDH2 Mutation. Pdufa Aug. 30 17′
6. SRPT:$SRPT PT cut to $43 from $68 at Piper
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1. Celgene Corporation on Twitter
“#NEWS FDA accepts Celgene/Agios NDA filing for Priority Review 4 a potential treatment for relapsed/refractory #AML
2. Amicus CEO John Crowley, Not His Daughter Megan, Might Compel Trump to Make Big Changes at FDA
Absent specific policy details, Trump’s speech leaves investors guessing about his real plans for the FDA and the drug approval process. He has not yet named an FDA commissioner.
3. j l on Twitter
“$ITCI meeting with FDA in late March”
4. j l on Twitter
“$MRK has dumped its BET inhibitor from Oncoethix acquisition”
5. In Video, Uber’s CEO Argues With a Driver Over Falling Fares
Travis Kalanick tells a driver to take responsibility for his problems and boasts about a tough culture.
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Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated.
Nearly three years have passed since Google announced it would offer an encryption for Gmail a potentially massive shift in the privacy options of a piece of software used by more than a billion people.
And Somogyi points out that his engineers have also had to build and refine an entirely new library of crypto code in javascript a necessary stepping stone for secure encryption tools and one widely believed to be unworkable a few years ago.
Its only serious effort in the last year was to offer encryption in its Allo messenger a new service with an infinitesimal fraction of the user base of existing chat platforms like Google Hangouts and Gchat.
The site resembles the landing page for Hangouts but without the options to place a phone call or start a text chat.
Based on the screenshots and the App detail page it appears Meet is meant to serve as a alternative to Hangouts the messaging voice and video chat application.
As of the time of writing Meet has not officially replaced Hangouts in the G Suite lineup of products according to the main webpage for online business applications found at.
The top trending attractions on a recent afternoon included clips of a gymnasium roof collapsing in the Czech Republic a colossal alligator lumbering across a footpath in Florida some North Korean refugees digging into American barbecue for the first time and a guy demonstrating how to wash a car with a baby.
Maddening disruptions tend to take place during the biggest programming events when surges in viewership can reduce everything from World Cup soccer matches to Game of Thrones season finales into spinning buffer wheels of outrage and recrimination.
Through the deals with Fox CBS NBC and ABC whose parent company Disney owns ESPN YouTube TV subscribers will be able to watch pro and college football basketball soccer baseball hockey tennis and golf.
clear this video is a reflection of the criticism received is a stark reminder that I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up.
When you receive a pack have the option to request a free flu shot from a registered up to people.
October by John Brownstein PhD Uber advisor in health careCategories Headlines Impact.
The outage is due to error rates with in according to AWS service health dashboard which is where the company also says working on the issue without initially revealing any further details.
Update PM PT AWS says seeing for object retrievals listing and which means probably seeing avatars and other visuals assets come back in some spots.
Update PM PT is now fully recovered in terms of the retrieval listing and deletion of existing objects according to the AWS status page and now working on restoring normal operation for the addition of new items to storage.
Its billion transistors deliver a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency and it bristles with NVIDIA CUDA cores and a massive frame buffer running at an unheard of.
NVIDIA designed the GeForce GTX Ti to handle the graphical demands of gaming and deliver unrivaled VR experiences told the crowd.
Audience members gasped when Huang revealed they were all rendered on our GTX Ti running at more than GHz and a temperature of just degrees centigrade an unprecedented feat.
Which means also get networks like Fox News ESPN and Bravo YouTube execs say the base package will include about three dozen channels.
YouTube base price puts it squarely in the same bracket as its competitors AT DirectTV Now for instance also launched with a offer.
a bit of going on here YouTube first broke through the popular consciousness as an video repository where you could watch unauthorized versions of TV clips like Night.
UPDATE Amazon Web Services has fixed all the issues related to the cloud storage outage Tuesday.
UPDATE The online world is starting to spin again as Amazon is fixing the problems that caused error at its data centers in Virginia knocking out many prominent websites and apps Tuesday morning.
We continue to work on recovery for adding new objects to and expect to start seeing improved error rates within the.
CNBC news Updates:
Lowe’s — The home improvement retailer reported an extremely upbeat quarter, much as its larger rival Home Depot did last month. Lowe’s earned an adjusted 86 cents per share for the fourth quarter, 7 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat forecasts, and the comparable-store sales increase of 5.1 percent was more than double consensus estimates. Lowe’s also forecast 2017 earnings of $4.64 per share, compared to estimates of $4.53 a share.
Best Buy — The electronics retailer reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.95 per share, beating estimates of $1.67 a share. Revenue was slightly below forecasts, and Best Buy also announced a 21 percent dividend hike and a $5 billion share repurchase program. The stock is under pressure, however, after Best Buy gave a weaker-than-expected earnings and sales outlook for the current quarter.
Vitamin Shoppe — The nutritional products retailer fell 4 cents a share shy of estimates, with adjusted quarterly profit of 36 cents per share. Revenue missed estimates, as well. Comparable-store sales dropped 2.2 percent, a bigger decline than the 1.8 percent anticipated by analysts. The company called its results disappointing in a difficult environment but said its initiatives should lead to improvement in the future.
Alere — The drugmaker said it would be unable to file its annual report in a timely manner, due to a review of revenue recognition at its Korean and Japanese locations. The review could impact accounting for certain transactions over the past few years, the company said.
Micron Technology — Goldman Sachs upgraded the chipmaker’s shares to “buy” from “neutral,” saying the company will benefit from increases in memory chip pricing, among other factors.
Salesforce.com — The business software maker beat estimates by 4 cents a share, with adjusted quarterly profit of 3 cents per share. Revenue was in line with Street forecasts, but the company did predict current-quarter profit below Street estimates. Overall, Salesforce has been seeing strong demand for its cloud-based software.
Time Inc. — The publisher of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and other magazines has asked suitors to submit final acquisition bids by next week, according to a Bloomberg report.
Tribune Media — The broadcasting company has been approached by rival Sinclair Broadcasting about a possible combination, according to a Reuters report.
Intel — Bernstein downgraded the chip maker’s shares to “underperform” from “market perform,” in a report that says “the world seems to be moving against Intel’s strengths.”
Etsy — Etsy lost 19 cents per share, compared to forecasts of a 2 cents per share profit. The online craft seller did see revenue come in above estimates. Etsy is adding users and seeing revenue grow, but its expenses are increasing, as well.
Ambarella — Ambarella reported adjusted quarterly profit of 92 cents per share, 18 cents a share above estimates. Revenue exceeded forecasts, as well. The chipmaker gave weak current-quarter revenue guidance, however. Ambarella — a key supplier to camera maker GoPro — has been hurt by declines in the wearable sports camera market.
Palo Alto Networks — Palo Alto came in 1 cent a share above estimates, with adjusted quarterly profit of 63 cents per share. The cybersecurity company’s revenue missed forecasts, however, and it gave weaker-than-expected current-quarter revenue guidance. CEO Mark McLaughlin said the company has had what he calls “execution challenges.”
Weight Watchers — Weight Watchers earned 20 cents per share for its latest quarter, 2 cents a share above estimates. Revenue missed forecasts. The diet plan provider did give a strong 2017 forecast, however, after its subscriber rolls increased by 10 percent during its most recent quarter.
Alphabet — Alphabet’s YouTube operation announced plans for a live television service to be unveiled later this year for $35 per month. The service will feature the four major networks as well as additional well-known cable channels.
Veeva — Veeva reported adjusted quarterly profit of 22 cents per share, a 5 cent a share beat. Revenue also topped forecasts but the provider of software for drug companies also gave a forecast for the year that falls partly below expectations, pressuring its shares.
Hershey — Hershey will cut its workforce by 15 percent, mostly outside the United States. Hershey is implementing a plan designed to grow its flagship candy business and is expanding its snacks lineup.
Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts — These are among the casino stocks likely to benefit following reports that Macau gaming revenue rose for the seventh month in a row and hit a two-year high during February.
Craft Brew Alliance — The beer maker was sued by two California residents who said they were fooled into believing the company’s Kona beer was made in Hawaii.
by Alpha | Feb 28, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. TGT:$TGT Target Q4 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.45 -Revenue: $20.7B
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5. CRBP:$CRBP offering @ $7 Corbus Pharmaceuticals Announces $27.2 Million Registered Direct Offering
6. KITE:*TRADING HALTED: Halt News Pending
7. DPZ:$DPZ – Domestic comps +12.2%; International +4.3% – crazy, they keep on delivering
9. CELG:$CELG PT raised to $155 from $147 at Jefferies
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1. Kite Announces Positive Topline Primary Results of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel from First Pivotal CAR-T Trial in Patients with Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Kite Pharma, Inc., (Nasdaq:KITE) today announced positive data from the primary analysis of ZUMA-1 for its lead CAR-T candidate, axicabtagene ciloleuc
2. Kite Pharma CAR-T Cancer Therapy Shows Strong, Durable Effect in Lymphoma Patients
Kite intends to submit a marketing application for KTE-C19 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the end of March.
3. j l on Twitter
“$CEMP fails solithromycin Gonorrhea study”
4. U.S. Growth Pace Unrevised as Consumption, Investment Diverge
The U.S. economy grew in the fourth quarter at an unrevised 1.9 percent pace, as slower investment by businesses and state and local agencies offset stronger household purchases.
5. Target shares plunge on earnings shortfall and weak outlook on sales
Target has been struggling to keep up with Wal-Mart.
6. dough on Twitter
“@AndyBiotech $KITE 20 percent neurotox and CRS 13 percent”
7. Bio Stocks™ on Twitter
“$KITE Announces Positive Topline Results of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel from CAR-T Trial in Patients with Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”
8. Apple’s next iPhone will have a curved screen
Apple has decided to adopt a flexible OLED display for one model of the new iPhone coming out this year and has ordered sufficient components to enable mass production, people familiar with the matter said.
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The push to snuff out leaks to the press comes after a week in which President Donald Trump strongly criticized the media for using unnamed sources in stories and expressed growing frustration with the unauthorized sharing of information by individuals in his administration.
For Trump a cable TV addict who has long obsessively tracked news coverage about himself the ongoing turmoil in the White House communications wing threatens to derail the media narrative that will help to define the opening days of his presidency.
Several other people interviewed for the post including Jarrod Agen a spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence and Scott Jennings a former political aide in the George Bush White House.
Mozilla is growing experimenting more and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy as a global public resource open and accessible to all.
believe that the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content is key to keeping the internet healthy by fighting against the rising tide of centralization and walled gardens.
Today hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers tablets and mobile devices.
The surge in the use of technology enabled by free smartphone apps such as WhatsApp and Signal could skirt or violate laws that require government records to be preserved and the business to be conducted in official channels several ethics experts say.
More than workers from several agencies are using encrypted cellphone apps to arrange nighttime and weekend meetings at homes in the area to discuss their potential resistance to Trump said Danielle Brian executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
For both the Trump team and the career employees encrypted apps like Signal WhatsApp Confide and Wickr make it easier to communicate in secret by leaving snoops with unreadable strings of text thwarting any hackers or government investigators who might get hold of the messages.
The surge in the use of technology enabled by free smartphone apps such as WhatsApp and Signal could skirt or violate laws that require government records to be preserved and the business to be conducted in official channels several ethics experts say.
More than workers from several agencies are using encrypted cellphone apps to arrange nighttime and weekend meetings at homes in the area to discuss their potential resistance to Trump said Danielle Brian executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
For both the Trump team and the career employees encrypted apps like Signal WhatsApp Confide and Wickr make it easier to communicate in secret by leaving snoops with unreadable strings of text thwarting any hackers or government investigators who might get hold of the messages.
Soon when you watch a stream see an option to purchase below the video on the channel page if the game or content is available on Twitch.
Any purchase over will earn you a Twitch Crate a digital loot box with a special reward like a emote a chat badge or some Bits.
The standard agreement with partnered streamers is of the revenue generated from the sale of games and items that are purchased from their channel page.
We protected the marketplace by offering the support of a care management team the personalization of profiles with photos and video interviews a robust algorithm to control matching and dispatching lengthy reviews from past clients and a rating system to ensure quality.
Rather than continuing to push the boulder up the hill and risk a spectacular failure we will attempt to leverage our talented team unique experience and technology IP to build a more sustainable healthcare business outside of home care.
But Mike and I deeply believe families across the country need better access to affordable home care and with increasing regulation and thriving technology vendors it would be irresponsible for us to continue down this path with unlikely probability of liquidation.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that he expect the commission to review AT purchase of Time Warner clearing the way for the Justice Department to very likely approve the deal.
While President Trump said on the campaign trail that his administration not the AT Warner merger he touched on the issue in the months since the election and even had what appeared to be a cheery meeting with AT T CEO Randall Stephenson in.
no indication so far that his Justice Department will move to block the merger and with the FCC declining review the toughest regulator of the deal is now out of the picture.
ET YouTube viewers are now watching more than billion hours of videos a day threatening to eclipse television viewership a milestone fueled by the Google aggressive embrace of artificial intelligence to recommend videos.
YouTube surpassed the figure which is far larger than previously reported late last year.
It represents a increase since YouTube said when it started building algorithms that.
Mozilla is growing experimenting more and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy as a global public resource open and accessible to all.
believe that the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content is key to keeping the internet healthy by fighting against the rising tide of centralization and walled gardens.
Today hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers tablets and mobile devices.
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