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After its launch in Nokia sold more than million models of its indestructible candybar turning Snake into a cultural icon and searing that tinkling ringtone permanently into the back of your mind.

At one point the even made a comeback in the form of a wonky Windows Phone device with a huge camera bump that exactly excite the buying public.

HMD figures some people will buy it as a second phone a way to get away from the tyranny of your dinging iPhone and buzzing Apple Watch without fully disconnecting.

2. A $1 billion secondary (!!!!) for WeWork, as part of Softbank deal.

In December Masayoshi Son the Japanese billionaire who control SoftBank promised Donald Trump he would invest billion in the United States.

However CNBC source said that Softbank has increased its interest and cash infusion plans since The Journal first published its story.

Over the past two years WeWork has raised more than billion from firms such as Goldman Sachs Benchmark and Hony Capital.

3. Thiel’s influence on admin so great his employees have taken to calling him “the shadow president” –

In early December the name of a candidate to be the science adviser to the president began percolating in Trump Tower David Gelernter the reclusive Yale University computer scientist known for his dripping disdain for the liberal intellectual elite and for surviving an attack by the Unabomber.

surprise victory in November also gave Thiel a renewed faith in the possibilities of politics and he has worked around the clock to push friends and associates into positions that will give them sway over science and technology policy an area he believes has been routinely neglected under previous administrations.

Also along for the ride Michael Kratsios chief of staff and Charlie Kirk a wunderkind who blew off college to start a organization dedicated to training young conservatives in the art of persuasion and plugging them into the right networks.

4. Motorola’s new Moto Mods include Alexa-equipped assistant, gamepad

The growing portfolio of modular includes cameras speakers batteries and more and on Sunday at Mobile World Congress Motorola announced several additions to the lineup.

It features a glowing blue light that illuminates when Alexa is activated and a pyramidal base that doubles as a desk stand.

They subsequently launched crowdfunding campaigns on Indiegogo and have a shot at meeting with Verizon and Motorola representatives to get their Moto Mods featured in online store.

5. “Standby time on the Nokia 3310 is 31 days” 3 1 d a y s !!! #nostalgia

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6. Here’s how the LG #G6 screen and body size compare to an iPhone 7Plus : full details @EFTM

This is not a new measure but expect to hear more and more about this as the anticipated Samsung Galaxy hits the market with a bigger screen to body ratio and rumours that Apple might finally be doing the same.

Without directly acknowledging that the was a mistake LG said today is a approach to premium smartphones with a focus on the features consumers want most notably a big screen that actually fits in one.

Chipset Processor Display Display x Memory RAM UFS ROM MicroSD up to Camera Front Wide Rear Dual Wide Standard OIS Battery embedded Operating System Android Nougat Size x x Weight Network Band CA Connectivity a b g n ac Bluetooth BLE NFC USB compatible Colors Ice Platinum Mystic White Astro Black Other Water and Dust Resistant Fingerprint Sensor UX Dolby Qualcomm Quick.

7. Slow and steady wins the race #VR

Even Andrew House global chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment the video game division of the Japanese electronics giant had doubts about how quickly virtual reality would be embraced by the mass market.

Among the other challenges facing the technology high prices for virtual reality equipment limited content and thorny side effects like motion sickness.

One exception is Capcom a Japanese game maker that released a new installment in its popular horror series Resident Evil biohazard in January that is entirely playable in virtual reality.

8. hard not to see both the P10 and huawei watch 2 as step backwards in design for huawei

They have much chunkier designs compared to the first Huawei Watch and are significantly thicker and bulkier despite having a smaller circular display than the prior screen.

Both versions have interchangeable straps and the Classic model has a unique that has a leather top and rubber underneath to protect against sweat damage.

In April it will come to US UK Holland Belgium Switzerland Ireland The Nordics Thailand Australia New Zealand Russia India South Africa Poland Austria Saudi Arabia Japan and UAE and Malaysia will see it starting in May.

9. This is the first interesting modular phone accessory I’ve seen, I think.

At its Mobile World Congress keynote Director of Alexa Voice Service Jon Kirk announced that it would partner with Motorola to create a speaker Moto Mod that essentially turns your phone into a portable Amazon Echo.

In a concept video the Mod is stuck to the back of a Moto Z and users can place their phone screen side down to use it as a speaker.

So far the company appears to be on track to deliver its promise of releasing at least Moto Mods per year targeting four each quarter.

10. Facebook attracts the best AI researchers because it has the best data.

In this case easy access to other groups in Facebook specifically the mobile team intimately familiar with iPhone hardware led to the jump from rendering images in data centers to performing the work on the phone itself.

Though his grades were equally high in science and humanities he decided to attend college in Madrid ideally studying the hardest subject he could think of telecommunications engineering which not only required a mastery of physical stuff like antennas and amplifiers but also an understanding of data which was He fell under the spell of a professor who proselytized adaptive systems.

All of those he says will lead to a understanding By figuring out how to actually know what content means Facebook intends to detect subtle intent from comments extract nuance from the spoken word identify faces of your friends that fleetingly appear in videos and interpret your expressions and map them onto avatars in virtual reality sessions.

Baidu Profit Plunges on Lower Marketing Revenue | and More Market News $BIDU, $JWN, $RH, $TSLA

by Alpha | Feb 24, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. CEMP:

$CEMP Cempra’s bacterial skin infection drug succeeds in key study – Reuters

2. RH:

$RH RH shares rally on higher-than-expected forecast – MW

3. EARS:

$EARS Auris Medical Stock Suring on AM-111 Fast Track Designation – TheStreet

4. AAOI:

$AAOI Applied Optoelectronics Reports Fourth Quarter and Year 2016 Results – Nasdaq

5. OLED:

$OLED OLED Tech Leader Universal Display Beats Q4 Goals, Will Pay Dividend – IBD

6. MTZ:

$MTZ MasTec Announces Fourth Quarter and Annual Results – PRN

7. INCY, SE:

$INCY Incyte will replace Spectra Energy $SE in the S&P 500 at the open of trading on Tues Feb 28

8. FL:

$FL Nike Retailer Foot Locker Beats Q4 Earnings Views As Comp Sales Surge

9. FLR:

$FLR Nike Retailer Foot Locker Beats Q4 Earnings Views As Comp Sales Surge – IBD

10. JWN:

$JWN Nordstrom posts higher profits; Trump impact ‘negligible’ – USA Today

11. EQY, NUS:

$NUS Nu Skin Enterprises will replace Equity One $EQY in S&P MidCap 400 at open of Thur Mar 2

12. PEGA:

$PEGA Pegasystems posts 4Q profit – AP

13. CXW, GEO:

$CXW $GEO Prison Stocks Spike After DoJ Reverses Obama’s Decision On Private Prisions – BZ

14. CBOE, PBI:

$CBOE CBOE will replace Pitney Bowes $PBI in S&P 500 & $PBI will replace $CBOE in MidCap 400 Mar 1 open

15. MRK: $MRK Merck to take $2.9 billion charge on hepatitis C drug – MW

16. HLT: $HLT Hilton Announces $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program, Quarterly Dividend – BizWire

17. ENDP, REG: $REG Regency Centers will replace Endo International $ENDP in the S&P 500 at the open on Thu, Mar 2

18. SRPT:

$SRPT Point72 Asset Management, L.P. Raises Stake in Sarepta Therapeutics to 5.2% – SI

19. NVS:

$NVS Novartis wins CHMP nod for drug combo against some lung cancers – Reuters

20. COF:

$COF Capital One reveals its anti-money-laundering program is being probed – MW

21. GPS:

$GPS Gap Inc. Reports 12% Drop In Q4 Earnings – Nasdaq

22. BIDU:

$BIDU Baidu Profit Plunges on Lower Marketing Revenue – WSJ

23. CELG:

$CELG Celgene president, COO Jackie Fouse to make shock departure – Fierce Biotech

24. HLF:

$HLF Herbalife issues weak forecast, touts China deal – MW

25. JCP:

$JCP JCPenney shuttering up to 140 stores as sales weaken, more sluggish growth seen ahead – CNBC

26. DGI:

$DGI Canada’s MacDonald Dettwiler to Buy U.S. Satellite-Imaging Firm DigitalGlobe – WSJ

27. RBS:

$RBS RBS Will Cut $2.5 Billion of Costs After Ninth Straight Loss – BBG

28. AAPL, SMCI:

$SMCI Super Micro plummets after report Apple $AAPL cut ties on security fears – MW

29. UTX, WSO:

$WSO Watsco Prices 4.24M Share Offering from United Technologies $UTX at $144 – SI

30. ZOES:

$ZOES Zoe’s Kitchen Q4 Loss Wider than Expected – Zacks

31. SPLK:

$SPLK Splunk shares drop as outlook falls short of Street view – MW

32. HPE:

$HPE HPE’s Whitman Struggles in Shift to Smaller Size, Cloud Pressure – BBG

33. HGG:

$HGG HHGregg Said to Prepare for Bankruptcy as Soon as Next Month – BBG

34. ACIA:

$ACIA Acacia Communications plunges after disappointing forecast – MW

35. FNCX:

$FNCX Function, Inc. Prices $4,800,000 Common Stock Offering – BW

36. NAO:

$NAO Nordic American Offshore Ltd Announces Upsizing and Pricing of Public Offering – SI

UPGRADES

1. CHK:$CHK NICE a UBS UPGRADE DJ Chesapeake Energy Raised to Neutral From Sell by UBS Fri Feb 24 06:57:25 2017 EDT

2. PTLA:$PTLA upgraded to Outperform from Perform at Oppenheimer. PT $40

DOWNGRADES

1. HTGC:Raymond James Downgrades Hercules Capital to Hold $HTGC

EARNINGS

1. HMSY:$HMSY reports FQ4 earnings of 20c EPS and $128.09M Revs –

2. BCC:$BCC reports FQ4 earnings of 3c EPS and $919.53M Revs –

3. CLMT:$CLMT reports FQ4 earnings of -98c EPS and $946.90M Revs –

4. KBR:$KBR reports FQ4 earnings of 29c EPS and $1.19B Revs –

5. VWR:$VWR reports FQ4 earnings of 45c EPS and $1.13B Revs –

6. DFRG:$DFRG reports FQ4 earnings of 37c EPS and $119.16M Revs –

7. MGA:$MGA reports FQ4 earnings of $1.24 EPS and $9.25B Revs –

8. COG:$COG reports FQ4 earnings of 1c EPS and $316.49M Revs –

9. CRK:$CRK reports FQ4 earnings of $-2.58 EPS and $48.50M Revs –

10. FL:$FL reports FQ4 earnings of $1.37 EPS and $2.11B Revs –

11. RDC:$RDC reports FQ4 earnings of 8c EPS and $351.80M Revs –

12. JCP:$JCP reports FQ4 earnings of 64c EPS and $3.96B Revs –

13. SJI:$SJI reports FQ4 earnings of 42c EPS and $330M Revs –

14. SSP:$SSP reports FQ4 earnings of 46c EPS and $272.69M Revs –

15. EHTH:$EHTH reports FQ4 earnings of -79c EPS and $43.76M Revs –

16. TDS:$TDS reports FQ4 earnings of -5c EPS and $1.28B Revs –

17. USM:$USM reports FQ4 earnings of -7c EPS and $991M Revs –

18. PMC:$PMC reports FQ4 earnings of 58c EPS and $534.40M Revs –

19. SATS:$SATS reports FQ4 earnings of 40c EPS and $740.39M Revs –

20. HSC:$HSC reports FQ4 earnings of 16c EPS and $360.22M Revs –

21. ARII:$ARII reports FQ4 earnings of $1.16 EPS and $167.51M Revs –

22. PNW:$PNW reports FQ4 earnings of 47c EPS and $739.20M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. CEMP:$CEMP Fusidic Acid Achieves Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Study of ABSSSI

2. JCP:EARNINGS: JC Penney Q4 EPS $0.64 Adj. vs. $0.61 Est.; Q4 Revs. $3.961B vs. $3.982B Est. • $JCP to close 140 stores

3. NVDA:Nvidia: Know The Difference Between ‘Highly Valued’ And ‘Overvalued’ $NVDA

TESLA will Continue to Move Higher | $TSLA, $NVDA, $ULTA, $SPY, $SQ

by Alpha | Feb 23, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. PTX:

$PTX Pernix Therapeutics Prevails in Zohydro® ER ANDA Litigation – GN

2. CBMX:

$CBMX CombiMatrix Q4 Revenues Rise With Growing Reproductive Test Business – Genomeweb

3. UCTT:

$UCTT Ultra Clean beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

4. CRI:

$CRI Carter’s tops Street 4Q forecasts – AP

5. SQ:

$SQ Square Jumps 8%: Q4 Beats, Forecasts Year Profit View Above Consensus – Barron’s

6. SPAR:

$SPAR Spartan Motors Delivers Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results – PRN

7. INO:

$INO Inovio Reports New Positive Clinical Data on Vaccine Advances Against Emerging Infectious Diseases

8. CTRP:

$CTRP Ctrip Forecasts Sales Surge as Travel Giant Tightens China Grip – BBG

9. VC:

$VC Visteon Reports Strong 2016 Financial Results, Driven by Record Performance – PRN

10. KSS:

$KSS Kohl’s profit falls on weak sales, but tops 4Q forecasts – AP

11. ZBRA:

$ZBRA Zebra Technologies Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Results – PRN

12. CHK:

$CHK Chesapeake Energy Beats Q4 Earnings Estimates – Zacks

13. HPQ:

$HPQ HP Sales Soar Past Estimates on Personal-Computer Strength – BBG

14. TFX:

$TFX Teleflex Tops Q4 EPS by 4c, Offers FY Guidance – SI

15. FIT:

$FIT Fitbit Stock Rises Despite Fourth Quarter Miss – TheStreet

16. VALE:

$VALE Vale returns to profit as commodity prices rise – MW

17. NVS:

$NVS Novartis cancer drug Zykadia gets FDA priority review – Reuters

18. BTI:

$BTI British American Tobacco profits and revenues grow on positive FX impact – IBT

19. PF:

$PF Pinnacle Foods meets 4Q profit forecasts – AP

20. TREE: $TREE LendingTree Tops Q4 EPS by 9c – SI

21. CS:

$CS Credit Suisse Probe Opens Old Wounds – WSJ

22. SYT:

$SYT ChemChina extends $43 billion Syngenta bid – MW

23. BSFT:

$BSFT BroadSoft Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results – GN

24. FGL:

$FGL F&G relaunches auction as Anbang approvals stall – Insurance Insider

25. TSLA:

$TSLA Tesla posts wider-than-expected loss of $0.69/sh; CFO Wheeler to leave at end of April – CNBC

26. SAFM:

$SAFM Sanderson Farms misses Street 1Q forecasts – AP

27. SAFM:

$SAFM Sanderson Farms says received antitrust civil investigative demand from office of Florida AG

28. W:

$W Wayfair posts another loss, but sales jump 33% – MW

29. BCS:

$BCS Barclays Swings to Profit as Sweeping Overhaul Nears End – WSJ

30. SAM:

$SAM Boston Beer Leaking After Weak Projection – Barron’s

31. CLD:

$CLD Cloud Peak Energy Prices Public Offering of Common Stock – BW

32. JACK:

$JACK Jack In The Box Walloped After Q1 Earnings Disappoint – Forbes

33. LB:

$LB Shares of Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands tumble on weak 2017 guidance – CNBC

34. ARRS:

$ARRS ARRIS Profit Rises, To Buy Brocade’s Networking Biz For $800 Mln – Nasdaq

35. CYCC:

$CYCC Cyclacel’s leukemia drug for elderly patients fails in key study – Nasdaq

UPGRADES

1. CDTX:WBB Securities Upgrades Cidara Therapeutics to Hold $CDTX

DOWNGRADES

1. BLMN:Bloomin’ Brands wilts after Credit Suisse downgrade

2. JUNO:$JUNO downgraded at Wells Fargo?!

3. NVDA:Nvidia downgraded to Underperform at BMO Capital Markets; -3.7% premarket

EARNINGS

1. EFOI:$EFOI reports FQ4 earnings of -27c EPS and $7.19M Revs –

2. COMM:$COMM reports FQ4 earnings of 61c EPS and $1.18B Revs –

3. HL:$HL reports FQ4 earnings of 3c EPS and $164.25M Revs –

4. PF:$PF reports FQ4 earnings of 79c EPS and $858.48M Revs –

5. PF:$PF reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $10.22M –

6. GTLS:$GTLS reports FQ4 earnings of 0c EPS and $214.37M Revs –

7. JAKK:$JAKK reports FQ4 earnings of -47c EPS and $167.03M Revs –

8. LDOS:$LDOS reports FQ4 earnings of 75c EPS and $2.58B Revs –

9. TFX:$TFX reports FQ4 earnings of $2.13 EPS and $513.93M Revs –

10. DNR:$DNR reports FQ4 earnings of -2c EPS and $271.62M Revs –

11. HRL:$HRL reports FQ1 earnings of 44c EPS and $2.28B Revs –

12. AROC:$AROC reports FQ4 earnings of -6c EPS and $193.78M Revs –

13. CRI:$CRI reports FQ4 earnings of $1.79 EPS and $934.20M Revs –

14. CRZO:$CRZO reports FQ4 earnings of 44c EPS and $143.83M Revs –

15. APLP:$APLP reports FQ4 earnings of 16c EPS and $135.41M Revs –

16. SERV:$SERV reports FQ4 earnings of 44c EPS and $633M Revs –

17. KSS:$KSS reports FQ4 earnings of $1.44 EPS and $6.21B Revs –

18. TREE:$TREE reports FQ4 earnings of 87c EPS and $100.84M Revs –

19. CCOI:$CCOI reports FQ4 earnings of 9c EPS and $115.60M Revs –

20. MCRN:$MCRN reports FQ4 earnings of 47c EPS and $289.10M Revs –

21. TXMD:$TXMD reports FQ4 earnings of -12c EPS and $4.49M Revs –

22. LKQ:$LKQ reports FQ4 earnings of 39c EPS and $2.15B Revs –

23. IART:$IART reports FQ4 earnings of 52c EPS and $255.66M Revs –

24. MITL:$MITL reports FQ4 earnings of 22c EPS and $259.80M Revs –

25. SPAR:$SPAR reports FQ4 earnings of 4c EPS and $145.85M Revs –

26. SPAR:$SPAR reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $6.71M –

27. GIL:$GIL reports FQ4 earnings of 32c EPS and $587.89M Revs –

28. IRDM:$IRDM reports FQ4 earnings of 19c EPS and $107.45M Revs –

29. W:$W reports FQ4 earnings of -34c EPS and $984.56M Revs –

30. VC:$VC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.82 EPS and $816M Revs –

31. BSFT:$BSFT reports FQ4 earnings of 91c EPS and $101.98M Revs –

32. ZBRA:$ZBRA reports FQ4 earnings of $1.93 EPS and $944M Revs –

33. BRC:$BRC reports FQ2 earnings of 40c EPS and $268M Revs –

34. HEES:$HEES reports FQ4 earnings of 35c EPS and $244.35M Revs –

35. APA:$APA reports FQ4 earnings of -6c EPS and $1.45B Revs –

36. UNT:$UNT reports FQ4 earnings of 23c EPS and $174.28M Revs –

37. CNK:$CNK reports FQ4 earnings of 66c EPS and $700.92M Revs –

38. HMHC:$HMHC reports FQ4 earnings of $-1.48 EPS and $241.81M Revs –

39. ICPT:$ICPT reports FQ4 earnings of $-4.84 EPS and $13.81M Revs –

40. LAWS:$LAWS reports FQ4 earnings of -53c EPS and $67.32M Revs –

41. PDCO:$PDCO reports FQ3 earnings of 58c EPS and $1.40B Revs –

42. PDCO:$PDCO reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $26.04M –

43. TNK:$TNK reports FQ4 earnings of 3c EPS and $117.70M Revs –

44. AMCX:$AMCX reports FQ4 earnings of $1.30 EPS and $729.60M Revs –

45. VAC:$VAC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.83 EPS and $564.74M Revs –

46. RTIX:$RTIX reports FQ4 earnings of 1c EPS and $71.35M Revs –

47. AAWW:$AAWW reports FQ4 earnings of $2.24 EPS and $529.73M Revs –

48. TK:$TK reports FQ4 earnings of -22c EPS and $552.20M Revs –

49. IDCC:$IDCC reports FQ4 earnings of $3.85 EPS and $273.87M Revs –

50. MDXG:$MDXG reports FQ4 earnings of 7c EPS and $69.88M Revs –

51. MDXG:$MDXG reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $2.14M –

52. TTC:$TTC reports FQ1 earnings of 41c EPS and $515.84M Revs –

53. CNSL:$CNSL reports FQ4 earnings of 11c EPS and $175.92M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. CYCC:$CYCC fail Announces Top-Line Results From Pivotal Phase 3 SEAMLESS Study in Elderly Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

2. SQ:Square +10.4% post-earnings; sell-side weighs in #premarket $SQ

3. SAGE:$SAGE Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

4. MBVX:$MBVX Therapeutics Announces FDA Authorization to Proceed with MVT-1075 in a Phase I Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Trending News Headlines

1. Pernix Therapeutics Prevails in Zohydro® ER ANDA Litigation

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTX ), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Pain and CNS conditions, announced today that it received a favorable opinion in its litigation with Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. regarding a proposed generic version of Zohydro ER. Judge Gregory M. Sleet of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware concluded that Actavis’ proposed generic versions of Zohydro ER infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 9,132,096 (which expires on September 12, 2034) and 6,902,742 (which expires on November 1, 2019) following a trial that took place in October 2016. The Judge has entered an order enjoining Actavis from engaging in the commercial manufacture, use, offer to sell, or sale in the United States, or importation into the United States of Actavis’ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) product prior to expiration of the two patents. Actavis did not assert invalidity or unenforceability of the patents at trial.

2. Bristol-Myers Looms as Pharma’s Next Megadeal as Activists Join

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. was once one of the drug industry’s highest-flying companies. Now the pharmaceutical giant has gone from predator to prey, as its sagging stock price has invited in activist investors who are already forcing changes.

3. Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

A former employee’s blog post has raised questions about the limits of meritocracy at Uber and how much executives knew about the treatment of employees.

4. dough on Twitter

“CEO Of $SCYX nice update at RBC yesterday”

5. Ultra Clean beats Street 4Q forecasts

The Hayward, California-based company said it had profit of 30 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 36 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The …

6. Sage Therapeutics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. today reported business highlights and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.

Technology News

1. um … what kind of investments?

Lansing previously led the digital department for the Republican National Committee.

President Donald Trump director of scheduling Caroline Wiles was also among the six staffers who did not pass the intensive FBI screening.

The intensive background check includes questions on the applicant credit score substance use and other personal subjects.

2. Documents provided by @Snowden reveal Palantir’s role in creating the U.S. government’s international spy machine.

Peter Thiel became one of the American political most notorious figures in when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media my former employer even before he won a direct line to the White he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on board of directors a Rolodex of software luminaries and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and in my case somewhat deviant people like to In that same article Thiel lays out mission with privacy in mind to terrorism while preserving civil After the first wave of revelations spurred by the whistleblower Edward Snowden Palantir was quick to deny that it had any connection to the NSA spy program known as PRISM which shared an unfortunate code name with one of its own software products.

In pitch its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable analysts working together to truly leverage their collective The fake target a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called Paraiso Movement was suspected of a terrorist bombing but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to and track members of any political or ideological group.

3. Palantir built software to facilitate and accelerate the use of XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s “widest reaching” spy program.

4. This AI hedge fund wants to transform Wall Street from a cutthroat competition into a harmonious collaboration

Gordon Gekko said that greed is good that it captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit A hedge fund hunts for an edge and then maniacally guards it locking down its trading data and barring its traders from joining the company next door.

Inspired by the same tech that underpins bitcoin his creation joins a growing wave of what people in the world of call tokens assets that enable the crowdsourcing of everything from venture capital to computing power.

For Craib a trained mathematician with an enormous wave of curly hair topping his frame the hope is that Numeraire will encourage Wall Street to operate more like an open source software project.

5. Uber, but for assholes

SAN FRANCISCO When new employees join Uber they are asked to subscribe to core company values including making bold bets being with the customer and be The service particularly emphasizes the idea that the best and brightest will rise to the top based on their efforts even if it means stepping on toes to get there.

Among the most egregious accusations from employees who either witnessed or were subject to incidents and who asked to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements and fear of retaliation One Uber manager groped female breasts at a company retreat in Las Vegas.

The chief executive Travis Kalanick has opened an internal investigation into the accusations and has brought in the board member Arianna Huffington and the former attorney general Eric Holder to look into harassment issues and the human resources department.

6. The first LTE-U (LTE for unlicensed) devices in the 5 GHz band have been approved by the FCC. Learn more here:

Industry has developed various standards within the framework of these rules such as Bluetooth and Zigbee that are designed to coexist in shared spectrum.

and stakeholders worked together under the auspices of the Alliance to develop guidelines and an evaluation test plan that was released last fall.

We remain committed to ensuring that all who seek to introduce new products and technologies may do so provided their devices comply with the FCC rules.

7. Facebook news partnership head @campbell_brown is hosting off-the-record meetings at her home to smooth media ties

Over food and drinks on Brown hosted a roundtable of top editors and executives at prominent US news outlets including the New Yorker David Remnick the New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin Vox Melissa Bell and USA s Joanne Lipman.

While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially downplayed the notion that widespread fake political news stories could have swayed voters the company eventually instituted a handful of measures to stem and hired Brown a former CNN host and controversial education activist to rebuild trust with the media.

One attendee said the room also discussed plans for helping publishers begin to draw in significant advertising revenue from the videos they are producing for the platform.

8. Instagram attacks Snap Stories again + tries to normalize swiping through carousel ad posts by opening them to users

Today Instagram launches the ability to share a mix of up to photos or videos as a single carousel post that friends can swipe through.

Users can then edit up to photos and videos individually or with a single filter on everything chooe their order and tag friends in each.

Instagram suggests that you could use the new feature to your favorite moments of your best surprise birthday party from setting up to when they walk through the door.

9. AMD’s Ryzen ship date, prices officially revealed. Performance is better than Core i7 in places. Great so far!

AMD executives confidently unveiled the first three desktop chips to attack Core supported by several motherboard vendors and boutique system builders.

Analysts say AMD appears to have done its homework leaving Intel in danger of giving up market share in the PC microprocessors that built its company.

Mark Hachman Su reiterated that she believes AMD will have adequate supplies of Ryzen on hand to meet customer demand a claim that Moor Insights analyst Pat Moorhead says confirmed.

10. Holy crap, AMD back from the dead with an eight core CPU is crazy.

Per AMD demonstrations the Ryzen also beat the Intel chip in Handbrake video encoding and boasted somewhat better frame rates in Sniper Elite at.

AMD is promising that March will be a hard launch too with chips in abundant supply or more different motherboards from a wide range of OEMs and systems from different boutique PC vendors.

Late in the year the company will be launching its new Vega GPU architecture the Naples server CPU mobile Ryzen parts with integrated graphics processors and Radeon Instinct headless GPUs designed for supercomputing number crunching.

$DEPO Depomed Reports 33% Increase in 2016 Net Product Sales | $FB, $MBLY, $GRMN, $DISH, $SSNI

by Alpha | Feb 22, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. RRGB:

$RRGB Red Robin Tops Q4 Earnings, Lags Sales; Gives View – Zacks

2. GRMN:

$GRMN Garmin Reports Solid Fiscal 2016 Revenue and Operating Income Growth – BizWire

3. DEPO:

$DEPO Depomed Reports 33% Increase in 2016 Net Product Sales – TheStreet

4. TOL:

$TOL Toll Brothers beats and raises the low end of its deliveries forecast – BI

5. LNTH:

$LNTH Lantheus Holdings posts 4Q profit – AP

6. LYG:

$LYG Lloyds Climbs to Highest Since Brexit on Dividend Boost, Outlook – BBG

7. UL, UN:

$UN Unilever plc $UL Conducting Review of Options to Accelerate Delivery of Value – SI

8. DISH:

$DISH Dish Network swings to profit as subscribers grow – MW

9. NCLH:

$NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line Revenue Helped by Fleet Additions – WSJ

10. WMGI: $WMGI Wright Medical Group Is Up After Narrower Than Expected Q4 Loss – RTT

11. MON: $MON Bayer CEO Confident Monsanto Purchase Will Be Approved by End of Year – WSJ

12. TEX: $TEX Terex Tops Q4 EPS by 12c, FY17 Guidance Misses – SI

13. ARRS, BRCD: $BRCD Arris $ARRS nears deal to acquire Brocade’s networking business – Reuters

14. TJX: $TJX TJX Cos. Tops Q4 EPS by 3c, Increases Dividend and Raises Buyback

15. SUM: $SUM Summit Materials, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Results – BW

16. HST: $HST Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Reports Solid Results for 2016 – GN

17. VSI: $VSI Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. Announces Changes To Board Of Directors – PRN

18. FB:

$FB Facebook in talks to stream Major League Baseball games – MW

19. CUZ:

$CUZ Cousins Properties Announces Public Offering of 63,571,336 Shares of Common Stock – PRN

20. MBLY:

$MBLY Mobileye Tops Q4 EPS by 2c – SI

21. SSNI:

$SSNI Silver Spring Networks qtrly loss per share $0.27 – Reuters

22. FSLR:

$FSLR First Solar Reports Q4 Non-GAAP EPS Of $1.24; Maintains Non-GAAP EPS Guidance – Nasdaq

23. TLLP:

$TLLP Tesoro Logistics L.P Prices 5M Unit Offering at ~$56.80 – SI

24. PZZA:

$PZZA Papa John’s Delivers Stale Q4 Earnings, Misses Revenue – Zacks

25. FUEL:

$FUEL Rocket Fuel drops 10% on Lower Q1 View – Barron’s

26. TXRH:

$TXRH Texas Roadhouse Inc. Is Falling After Q4 Profit Disappoints – RTT

27. GBT:

$GBT Global Blood Therapeutics Prices Upsized 5.1M Common Stock Offering at $24.50/Share – SI

28. SREV:

$SREV ServiceSource reports 4Q loss – AP

UPGRADES

1. WMT:#Walmart upgraded to buy from neutral at BofA. Price target raised $12 to $88. $WMT +0.70% at 71.95 premarket…

DOWNGRADES

1. CHTR:MoffettNathanson Downgrades Charter Communications to Hold $CHTR

2. HAR:Raymond James Downgrades Harman International to Hold $HAR

3. MNTA:Leering downgrades Momenta on uncertainty with generic 40 mg glatiramer acetate, price target cut to $18

EARNINGS

1. SUM:$SUM reports FQ4 earnings of 21c EPS and $387.39M Revs –

2. TOL:$TOL reports FQ1 earnings of 43c EPS and $920.73M Revs –

3. UTHR:$UTHR reports FQ4 earnings of $4.12 EPS and $409M Revs –

4. UNVR:$UNVR reports FQ4 earnings of 27c EPS and $1.81B Revs –

5. TPH:$TPH reports FQ4 earnings of 36c EPS and $773.30M Revs –

6. DISH:$DISH reports FQ4 earnings of 70c EPS and $3.72B Revs –

7. HFC:$HFC reports FQ4 earnings of -6c EPS and $2.96B Revs –

8. DISH:$DISH reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $31.86M –

9. WWW:$WWW reports FQ4 earnings of 33c EPS and $729.60M Revs –

10. WWW:$WWW reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $18.45M –

11. SO:$SO reports FQ4 earnings of 44c EPS and $5.18B Revs –

12. GRMN:$GRMN reports FQ4 earnings of 73c EPS and $860.77M Revs –

13. SIX:$SIX reports FQ4 earnings of 2c EPS and $239.31M Revs –

14. SIX:$SIX reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $10.32M –

15. NSM:$NSM reports FQ4 earnings of 36c EPS and $789M Revs –

16. MBLY:$MBLY reports FQ4 earnings of 22c EPS and $104.58M Revs –

17. SCL:$SCL reports FQ4 earnings of 52c EPS and $420.64M Revs –

18. NEO:$NEO reports FQ4 earnings of 5c EPS and $60.49M Revs –

19. CRTO:$CRTO reports FQ4 earnings of 84c EPS and $224.95M Revs –

20. ACCO:$ACCO reports FQ4 earnings of 32c EPS and $437.60M Revs –

21. NCLH:$NCLH reports FQ4 earnings of 56c EPS and $1.13B Revs –

22. MYCC:$MYCC reports FQ4 earnings of 8c EPS and $345.30M Revs –

23. CHS:$CHS reports FQ4 earnings of 10c EPS and $600.79M Revs –

24. RGEN:$RGEN reports FQ4 earnings of 8c EPS and $25.60M Revs –

25. SBGI:$SBGI reports FQ4 earnings of $1.32 EPS and $797.69M Revs –

26. ENZY:$ENZY reports FQ4 earnings of -10c EPS and $10.58M Revs –

27. GLDD:$GLDD reports FQ4 earnings of -11c EPS and $213.41M Revs –

28. NM:$NM reports FQ4 earnings of -28c EPS and $99.48M Revs –

29. TJX:$TJX reports FQ4 earnings of $1.03 EPS and $9.47B Revs –

30. EV:$EV reports FQ1 earnings of 53c EPS and $354.96M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. GBT:$GBT $24.50/share on $125m, upsized

2. ARGS:$ARGS halted

3. TGTX:$TGTX initiated with a Buy at Aegis. $28 TP

4. OCUL:$OCUL FDA Accepts NDA Resubmission for DEXTENZA™ for the Treatment of Ocular Pain Occurring After Ophthalmic Surgery. PDUFA 07/19/17

5. UL:Unilever plc $UL Conducting Review of Options to Accelerate Delivery of Value

6. UN:$UN Unilever plc $UL Conducting Review of Options to Accelerate Delivery of Value – SI

7. TJX:TJX Q4 EPS $1.03 vs $1 Est., Sales $9.5B vs $9.44B Est.; Sees FY17 EPS $3.80-$3.89 vs $3.79 Est.; Raises Buyback from $1.3B to $1.8B $TJX

8. PKD:That is ugly for $PKD share holders. Time to take another look at the options

9. GEO:GEO Group to acquire Community Education Centers for $360m in cash. $GEO #mna #stocks

10. MBLY:Mobileye beats by $0.02, beats on revenue #premarket $MBLY

11. ONCE:$ONCE says the BLA is still on track for completion in early 2017.

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1. Bio Stocks™ on Twitter

“$ARGS DMC Recommends Discontinuation of the ADAPT Phase 3 Trial of Rocapuldencel-T in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma for Futility”

2. Brad Loncar on Twitter

“$ONCE says the BLA is still on track for completion in early 2017.”

3. Toll Brothers beats and raises the low end of its deliveries forecast

Toll Brothers now expects to sell 6,700-7,500 homes in fiscal 2017, compared with its previous forecast of 6,500-7,500 units.

Technology News

1. “Many people don’t trust institutions anymore. We see fake news coming from everywhere”

As officials play in the fight against sophisticated hacking and fake news operations they fear Europe and its elections remain vulnerable at a critical moment The project of unity hangs in the balance challenged by populist forces within the bloc and pressures from Russia and beyond.

Jakub Janda a deputy director of European Values a think tank that has worked with East Stratcom in Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Despite the regionwide push to counter false reports experts question whether such efforts by governments and publishers will have a meaningful effect.

In Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing tough competition ahead of elections in September the domestic intelligence service already has reported a sharp rise in phishing attacks in recent months aimed at political parties and members of the Parliament.

2. UPS drone delivery from a truck mostly illustrates how impractical these things remain

As for the HorseFly itself the drone features a carbon fiber construction is powered by a proprietary lithium battery pack and capable of a flight time at a top speed of miles per hour the company says.

guidance system draws from online databases covering airspace topograhpic weather and wind conditions and data from sensors like a GPS Compass LIDAR and infrared camera for landing.

The transportation and delivery company originally poached a huge team away from Carnegie Mellon University and is now getting a taste of its own medicine with Ford recruiting heavily from its ranks to develop cars.

3. Analyst slaps “NEUTRAL” on Snapchat stock, says “no upside” from IPO price

Snapchat will need to match Facebook monetization levels on a basis if it is to ramp ad spending beyond the billion a year at which Twitter began to run into revenue growth issues Cordwell predicted.

Our price target effectively assumes Snap trades at over EBIT earnings before interest and tax multiple at well in excess of the historical range of this metric for Facebook though margins still likely to be below structural potential at this point.

Earlier on Tuesday Reuters reported that while investors attending the London leg of the Snap IPO road show were impressed with sleek presentation some were disappointed the company did not provide projections on future revenue and advertising share.

4. .@GoldmanSachs is predicting @Snap will deliver nearly five times its 2016 revenue by 2018

Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.

Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.

Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.

5. This is a plausible ramp from $400mm in 2016. But no lay-up. These are direct human sales, not automated.

Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.

Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.

Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.

6. .@PortiaCrowe + @rachael_levy go inside Snap’s roadshow & learn all the ?s Spiegel got asked while eating sandwiches

Tuesday meeting on the floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City Columbus Circle drew a crowd of nearly people that one investor said included the entire hedge fund mafia.

Inside the hotel ballroom guests bearing the bright yellow IPO pitchbooks distributed at the event were treated to a light if uninspired lunch paired with heady prognostications by management.

While attendees nibbled on turkey sandwiches and caesar salad wraps Snap CEO Evan Spiegel chief strategy officer Imran Khan and CFO Drew Vollero answered questions from the crowd according to people who attended the event.

7. ARM making its way into NB-IoT licensing. Wow. / ARM invests in the future of IoT connectivity

From devices regulating and monitoring factory production flows to intelligence stitched into a arteries to tune streetlights to the presence of people vehicle traffic and weather conditions.

It is seen as the standard that will unlock long range IoT connectivity at scale as mobile network operators only have to upgrade their existing LTE systems to make it work.

It is a portfolio we are continually investing in as we seek to help architect a world where hundreds of billions of devices can actively connect to global networks linking people businesses and the environment in powerful new ways we are only just beginning to imagine.

8. I suppose Snap’s investors can always take to the streets if they feel ignored

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and fellow executives faced questions from investors about declining user engagement according to fund managers present at the meeting who did not want to be identified as the discussions were private.

Proceedings were housed in a conference center in the heart of financial district at Bishopsgate a few paces from Liverpool Street Station decked out with yellow branding.

But in the Q A and a series of smaller meetings with Snap executives investors focused their questioning on user growth a sign that the slowdown is a serious issue in the minds of fund managers as is competition from rivals such as Facebook Inc.

9. “To that end, Facebook should not be allowed to buy another network-based app; I would go further and make it…

His power and ability to influence is greater than any President subject to political reality and and besides as Zuckerberg made clear last week his concern is not a mere country but rather the entire world.

Until of course said meddling was uncovered at which point the service having so significantly betrayed trust would lose a substantial number of users and thus its lucrative and privileged place in advertising leading to a plunge in market value.

To be sure algorithms are written by humans which means they will always have implicit bias and the focus on engagement has its own harms particularly the creation of filter bubbles and fake news but I have longed viewed use for explicit political ends to be the greatest danger of all.

10. Having a human check ID in Amazon Go store is like using serverless technologies on your own datacenter

we start offering beer and wine there will be an associate checking identification an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email.

Dubbed Amazon Go the store concept allows shoppers to grab prepared food and drinks off of shelves and automatically be billed without stopping to pay on the way out.

Amazon accomplishes this feat by making shoppers scan an app on the way in and then uses a mix of sensors cameras and computer vision to track the items that each customer takes.

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by Alpha | Feb 21, 2017 | Pre-Market

Stock Market seems to be unstoppable in the first half of the past week, as the major indices continued their uninterrupted advance to historic highs. The last couple of days of the week saw a shallow correction on Wall Street, but the technical damage is limited, despite the slightly alarming weakness in small caps. Market still show some noticeable strength in sizable market mover stocks like Apple ($AAPL) which continues its strong Uptrend.

$WMT Did a Solid Quarter and Stock is up over 3.4%, Last week we saw huge call buying and it was posted in CHAT ROOM

TESLA downgraded to a SELL at $GS sotcks testing Support at $250 in pre-mkt | Time to BUY $TSLA

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