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6. Daiichi Sankyo and ArQule Announce the Completion of the METIV-HCC Phase 3 Study of Tivantinib in Second-Line Treatment of MET-Overexpressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma

ArQule, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQL) and Daiichi Sankyo today announced that the METIV-HCC phase 3 study of tivantinib in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) did no

Technology News

1. really smart @jacobtwop piece about the crisis of masculinity at the heart of, uh, a huge portion of the internet

The fact that this was framed as a investigation and major story for the Journal should be a reminder of both the outsize paychecks digital video personalities draw Forbes estimated earnings at million in making him the star on YouTube and the vast devoted fanbases that enable them.

Rewriting Felix history to make him a monster pulled along by the gravity of recent cautionary tales like those of Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer is investigative laziness that obscures a much more important fact that the boys and men who group together online for the explicit proliferation of hate speech and misogyny will almost inevitably keep pushing the line until they end up in a truly dark place.

Because relationship to his following like that of Milo to his own fans is both a reciprocal system of validation and a male personality cult we diagnose it as anything out of the ordinary We take it at face value because are We can demonize the ones who go too far as an idea continue to ignore them in reality and then act shocked when their need for attention finally intersects with their ability to make themselves heard.

2. How YouTube’s biggest star took a bizarre career turn, and what it tells us about the politics of social platforms

But Monday night The Wall Street Journal reported that the Maker Studios a longtime partner of would no longer have anything to do with him later YouTube announced that it was canceling a show developed with Kjellberg and removing his channel from its lucrative advertising program.

Continue reading the main story With more than a billion users YouTube has become not merely a platform but almost a kind of internet the host of a gigantic economy and a set of cultures governed by a new and novel sort of corporation sometimes at length and other times up close.

But it is in interest for the inner workings of its platform including recommendation algorithms the way it calculates advertising rates and the precise locations of its boundaries to remain at least somewhat secret to prevent creators from gaming the quirks at the expense of either user experience or its bottom line.

3. PewDiePie says The Wall Street Journal is out to get him in apology for Nazi jokes

PewDiePie apologized today for making jokes that he now says too and which led to him losing major deals with Disneyand YouTube.

sorry for the words that I used as I know they offended people and I admit that the joke itself went too far he says in a video titled Response that he uploaded to YouTube this afternoon.

Early in the video PewDiePie says his experience with media outlets has led him to believe that they misrepresent people for their own personal He later calls the Journal article on him.

4. Probably the most interesting bit of Zuck’s new letter

A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad to continue increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can create the greatest positive impact on the world.

It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.

5. With no IPO in sight, Uber is giving restless employees a way to cash out

With the exception of Snap and a few others technology companies are waiting much longer to go public than in the past and the ample funding available from private investors at generous terms have made mergers a less attractive option.

When Emil Michael senior vice president of business takes the stage at a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday expect him to address a topic on the minds of many employees when exactly the company will go public.

In late Uber began offering employees restricted stock units instead of options which do require paying taxes upfront one of the people said.

6. Yow. PewDiePie has a long history of gross, thinly veiled racism. And now he’s a hero to Nazis.

After The Wall Street Journal reported on his pattern of using jokes in his videos Maker Studios cut ties with the internet celeb and YouTube canceled the second season of his streaming reality show.

on the internet you tell if something was intended as a joke or a sincere Offensive further confuses the mix While important to call out things like racism sexism ableism and homophobia doing so plays into hands.

In December he announced plans to delete his YouTube channel once it reached million subscribers because the platform had changed its homepage a move that meant his viewers saw fewer videos and less often.

7. With my #java and #groovylang hats on, I like to see that #tensorflow 1.0 has an experimental Java API 🙂

8. Lenovo’s profit falls short as HP, Dell challenge its global lead in PCs

Three years after Lenovo closed its billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility the smartphone business remains well behind Vivo Oppo and Huawei in terms of market share.

In it appointed human resources director Gina Qiao to lead smartphone sales in China the third executive in the position since the Motorola takeover.

Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing said he remained confident the division will achieve by the second half of the next fiscal year ending March.

9. Zuck, supportive, safe & inclusive communities start with a respect for privacy. 1 privacy mention in 5,800 words

A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.

10. pewdiepie’s response to the wsj stuff is built around an extremely familiar conception of what media is/does:

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$CSCO Cisco as a service: Subscription focus helps stock turn around after earnings | and More News $ALXN

by Alpha | Feb 16, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. CFMS:

$CFMS ConforMIS, Inc. Shares Fall On Lower Than Expected Earnings Numbers – TickerTV

2. HGG:

$HGG hhgregg to Explore Strategic Alternatives to Improve Liquidity, Profitability – SI

3. NTES:

$NTES NetEase Reports A Blow Out Number Defying The Constant Critics Of Chinese Investments – Forbes

4. TIVO:

$TIVO TiVo Reports Q2 EPS of $0.08, Offers Guidance, Approves $150M Buyback and Initiates Dividend – SI

5. NTAP:

$NTAP NetApp delivers strong Q3, teases new hyperconverged systems – ZDNet

6. SNPS:

$SNPS Synopsys Inc. Is Rising After Q1 Earnings Topped Expectations – RTT

7. ALXN:

$ALXN Alexion Pharma Tops Q4 EPS by 1c; Guides Below the Street, $1B Buyback Plan – SI

8. KATE:

$KATE Kate Spade Says It’s Reviewing Strategic Alternatives – SI

9. VRX:

$VRX Valeant Pharma: FDA Approves BLA For Brodalumab Injection – Nasdaq

10. SHPG:

$SHPG Shire profit rises 63% as sales more than double – MW

11. ABX:

$ABX Barrick Gold +2% on Q4 beat, dividend hike, stronger balance sheet – SA

12. FRED, RAD, WBA:

$RAD Walgreens-Rite Aid deal may finally be a go $WBA $FRED – NYPOST

13. CSCO:

$CSCO Cisco as a service: Subscription focus helps stock turn around after earnings – MW

14. CSCO:

$CSCO Cisco Systems open to much larger acquisitions – FT

15. AMAT:

$AMAT Applied Materials Beats Q1 Targets, Guides Higher, Stock Rises – IBD

16. IONS, NVS:

$IONS Ionis Enters Collab Agreement w Novartis $NVS for to Develop AKCEA-APO-LRx & AKCEA-APOCIII-LRx

17. MYL:

$MYL U.S. FDA Accepts BLA for Mylan and Biocon’s Proposed Biosimilar Pegfilgrastim for Review – BZ

18. MAR:

$MAR Marriott Tops on Q4 Earnings, Revenues; Gives ’17 View – Zacks

19. CHTR: $CHTR Charter Communications loses 51,000 video customers, as Q4 earnings beat expectations – MW

20. HOLX: $HOLX FDA Grants PMA Approval for Hologic’s Aptima® Hepatitis C Quant Dx Assay – PRN

21. ZTS: $ZTS Zoetis Tops on Earnings in Q4, Updates View – Zacks

22. CRM:

$CRM Potential Activist Funds Line Up to Take a Salesforce Stake – BBG

23. CBS:

$CBS CBS Revenue Declines, Hurt by Lower Ratings – WSJ

24. CAB:

$CAB Cabela’s misses Street 4Q forecasts – AP

25. KHC:

$KHC Kraft Heinz Lower Despite Q4 Earnings and Revenue Beats – Zacks

26. CLD:

$CLD Cloud Peak Q4 Earnings Beat, Revenues Miss Estimates – Zacks

27. SPWR:

$SPWR SunPower Drops: Q1 Revenue View Misses by a Mile – Barron’s

28. MGM:

$MGM MGM shares drop 5% after casino company reports Q4 earnings – MW

29. TRIP:

$TRIP TripAdvisor Q4 Earnings, Revenue Miss; ‘Significant Investments’ – IBD

30. AVP:

$AVP Avon Products revenue, profit miss on weak demand – Reuters

31. DF:

$DF Dean Foods’ stock drops after profit miss, downbeat outlook – MW

32. EVOK:

$EVOK Evoke Pharma Plans Offering of Common Stock – SI

33. CAR:

$CAR Avis Budget shares fall after earnings, revenue miss – MW

34. OMCL:

$OMCL Omnicell Q4 Earnings Deteriorate Y/Y, Revenues Miss – Zacks

35. GNC:

$GNC GNC Holdings Misses Earnings Estimate, Sales in Line – Zacks

36. MOH:

$MOH Molina blames Obamacare for disappointing results, outlook – Reuters

37. BBW:

$BBW Build-A-Bear’s Q4 same store sales fall 8.3 percent – Reuters

38. CFMS:

$CFMS ConforMIS, Inc. Shares Fall On Lower Than Expected Earnings Numbers – TickerTV

UPGRADES

1. HSY:#Hershey upgraded to buy from hold at Argus. Price target $125. $HSY 2/15 close: 108.80 #stocks

DOWNGRADES

1. ALXN, AMGN, REGN:Regeneron downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Goldman $REGN $AMGN $ALXN

2. REGN:$REGN downgraded from Buy to Neutral at Goldman.

3. TSRO:FBR downgrades TESARO, cuts PT to $151

4. VSTO:Vista Outdoor was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Forward View Consulting $VSTO

EARNINGS

1. HIMX:$HIMX reports FQ4 earnings of 3c EPS and $203.44M Revs –

2. ICLR:$ICLR reports FQ4 earnings of $1.26 EPS and $435.13M Revs –

3. NICE:$NICE reports FQ4 earnings of $1.18 EPS and $328.50M Revs –

4. YNDX:$YNDX reports FQ4 earnings of 16c EPS and $364.70M Revs –

5. WEN:$WEN reports FQ4 earnings of 8c EPS and $309.90M Revs –

6. BCOR:$BCOR reports FQ4 earnings of -18c EPS and $86.80M Revs –

7. EPAM:$EPAM reports FQ4 earnings of 77c EPS and $313.52M Revs –

8. GEL:$GEL reports FQ4 earnings of 19c EPS and $428.05M Revs –

9. TIME:$TIME reports FQ4 earnings of 75c EPS and $867M Revs –

10. BBW:$BBW reports FQ4 earnings of 31c EPS and $110.34M Revs –

11. ALXN:$ALXN reports FQ4 earnings of $1.26 EPS and $831M Revs –

12. PBF:$PBF reports FQ4 earnings of -71c EPS and $4.75B Revs –

13. CHTR:$CHTR reports FQ4 earnings of $1.67 EPS and $10.28B Revs –

14. ONDK:$ONDK reports FQ4 earnings of -44c EPS and $81.83M Revs –

15. AGIO:$AGIO reports FQ4 earnings of $-1.34 EPS and $22.65M Revs –

16. TPX:$TPX reports FQ4 earnings of $1.18 EPS and $769.50M Revs –

17. ZTS:$ZTS reports FQ4 earnings of 47c EPS and $1.28B Revs –

18. AVP:$AVP reports FQ4 earnings of 1c EPS and $1.57B Revs –

19. CAB:$CAB reports FQ4 earnings of $1.05 EPS and $1.33B Revs –

20. EIGI:$EIGI reports FQ4 earnings of -25c EPS and $292.12M Revs –

21. DUK:$DUK reports FQ4 earnings of 81c EPS and $5.62B Revs –

22. GNC:$GNC reports FQ4 earnings of 7c EPS and $569.93M Revs –

23. WST:$WST reports FQ4 earnings of 54c EPS and $382.31M Revs –

24. POOL:$POOL reports FQ4 earnings of 6c EPS and $445.24M Revs –

25. RS:$RS reports FQ4 earnings of 84c EPS and $2.06B Revs –

26. H:$H reports FQ4 earnings of 29c EPS and $1.09B Revs –

27. HII:$HII reports FQ4 earnings of $3.67 EPS and $1.92B Revs –

28. MGM:$MGM reports FQ4 earnings of 11c EPS and $2.46B Revs –

29. CIR:$CIR reports FQ4 earnings of 48c EPS and $158.24M Revs –

30. SHPG:$SHPG reports FQ4 earnings of $3.37 EPS and $3.81B Revs –

31. LH:$LH reports FQ4 earnings of $2.15 EPS and $2.39B Revs –

32. DF:$DF reports FQ4 earnings of 38c EPS and $2.02B Revs –

33. SWC:$SWC reports FQ4 earnings of 6c EPS and $215.40M Revs –

34. WM:$WM reports FQ4 earnings of 75c EPS and $3.46B Revs –

35. MZOR:$MZOR reports FQ4 earnings of -7c EPS and $26.10M Revs –

36. NCI:$NCI reports FQ4 earnings of 30c EPS and $239.67M Revs –

37. NCI:$NCI reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $1.21M –

38. STRA:$STRA reports FQ4 earnings of 95c EPS and $119.28M Revs –

39. UAN:$UAN reports FQ4 earnings of -13c EPS and $84.90M Revs –

40. CVE:$CVE reports FQ4 earnings of 30c EPS and $2.80B Revs –

41. PCG:$PCG reports FQ4 earnings of $1.33 EPS and $4.71B Revs –

42. SYNT:$SYNT reports FQ4 earnings of 57c EPS and $237.89M Revs –

43. ECA:$ECA reports FQ4 earnings of 9c EPS and $822M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. KATE:$KATE Kate Spade Says It’s Reviewing Strategic Alternatives – SI

2. ALXN:$ALXN

3. FGEN:$FGEN Latest presentation

4. USD:#BREAKING: Philly Fed February Business Activity, 43.3 vs. 17.5 expected. January was 23.6. $USD

5. EVOK:$EVOK prices @ $2.90

Trending News Headlines

1. Exclusive: Big U.S. banks to push for easing of money laundering rules

America’s largest banks are to propose a complete overhaul of how financial institutions investigate and report potential criminal activity, arguing that rules imposed in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and strengthened during the Obama administration are onerous and ineffective, sources said. The Clearing House, a trade association representing the largest U.S. banks including Goldman Sachs (GS.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Bank of America (BAC.N), has long raised concerns about the effectiveness of the current rules, but this will be the first time the group has publicly called for them to be revamped.

2. Elon Musk Is Really Boring

The billionaire visionary is digging in on a tunnel project to skirt gridlock, but there’s a hole in his Trump-era business bet.

3. jodi gralnick on Twitter

“$MS @MorganStanley ready for @Snap $SNAP roadshow.”

4. Apple Vowed To Revolutionize Television. An Inside Look at Why It Hasn’t

The company is testing a new Apple TV capable of streaming ultra-high-definition 4K. It may not be enough to take on Amazon and Roku.

5. Shire profit rises 63% as sales more than double

Technology News

1. Pretty big deal from Twitter: Abusive accounts getting their reach throttled:

Twitter is temporarily decreasing the reach of tweets from users it believes are engaging in abusive behavior via a new protocol that began rolling out last week.

The protocol temporarily prevents tweets from users Twitter deems abusive from being displayed to people who follow them effectively reducing their reach.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said that providing users with better controls is the top priority and this effort is part of that.

2. Have a listen: proud to unveil my official @Spotify playlist!

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3. Unbelievable. Yahoo just disclosed another malicious security incident on its users during 2015 and 2016:

In a statement Yahoo tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the actor responsible for the theft of private data from more than billion user accounts in and.

The catastrophic breach raised questions about Yahoo security and destabilized the company deal to sell its email service websites and mobile applications to Verizon Communications.

The malicious activity that was the subject of the user warnings revolved around the use of forged cookies strings of data which are used across the web and can sometimes allow people to access online accounts without their passwords.

4. The Caavo people really, really underplayed the scope and implications of their tech yesterday. It’s wild.

Sending a bunch of preprogrammed IR macros to various boxes is an ancient inevitably doomed idea and nearly universal or resilient enough to support search and discovery as powerful as demos.

brilliant but there are a bunch of issues that come along for the ride Vizio just got smacked by the FTC for detecting what was displayed on its TVs and collecting data without being transparent enough with customers.

a tall order and Caavo has a long way to go and a lot of conversations to have with obstinate protective players like cable companies who have been very slow to integrate with streaming services and devices.

5. Arizona Sen. Flake believes your ISP has every right to spy on you and sell what it learns.

The FCC rules have long drawn fire from telecom industry critics for imposing tougher privacy standards on ISPs like AT T and Verizon than on online companies like Google and Facebook which also have access to a great deal of user data.

In an open letter to Darrell Issa and Jerry Nadler the chair and ranking member of House IP subcommittee the nonprofit argues that it can help more users access PACER filings which currently cost a fee to download.

tech sector is huge in terms of going on to the future of the country so they get drawn in sometimes somewhat reluctantly to He said that in contrast with Microsoft which spent years ignoring Facebook was quickly in because of the nature of their product and explosive uptake they.

6. Troubling. Rolling back @FCC privacy rule will leave consumers unprotected & with fewer choices re sensitive data.

7. China’s biggest smartphone maker is getting into the digital assistant business

Huawei Technologies the smartphone maker is preparing to enter the competitive world of digital assistants with its own service people familiar with the matter said.

Huawei assistant would communicate in Chinese languages and target domestic users while the company will continue to work with Google and Amazon outside China one of the other people said.

Building its own answer to Siri may help Huawei devices stand out in a crowded Chinese market where many Google services that come with the dominant Android smartphone operating system are blocked.

8. “We have not been doing a great job at listening to local journalists.” Facebook is now aiming to change that.

Ultimately journalists who attended the roadshow told CJR they were heartened by novel examples of audience engagement and recent efforts to combat They were happy to start a relationship with Facebook where none previously existed many were grateful to make personal connections within the ironically might seem faceless on occasion.

At the Dallas roadshow Facebook led presentations on and shared case studies of how local newsrooms have used the platform then took questions that touched on everything from the News Feed and Instant Articles to subsidiary products including Instagram and Crowdtangle a social listening tool.

One journalist asked that Instagram allow users to share links an important way to drive traffic from the platform to local news sites and many reporters around the room nodded in agreement says Schmitt.

9. Facebook’s plan to reach out to local newsrooms

10. This will flop: @Facebook is going after @LinkedIn, rolling out job postings and applications via @Recode

Facebook hopes employers and prospective employees will then use Messenger to communicate throughout the courting process.

Facebook is necessarily the first place you think of when looking for a new job but it could certainly offer some competition to LinkedIn and has a much larger user base.

The new feature will start to roll out beginning Wednesday but only in the and Canada.

SoftBank to Buy Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 Billion | $FIG, $TWTR, $SODA, $WIX, $HLT, $PEP, $HUM, $PYPL

by Alpha | Feb 15, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. FIG:

$FIG SoftBank to Buy Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 Billion – WSJ

2. GS, MDCA:

$MDCA Goldman Sachs $GS to Make Equity Investment in MDC Partners – PRN

3. GRPN:

$GRPN Groupon Q4 Loss Widens; But Results Top Estimates, Stock Up – Nasdaq

4. SODA:

$SODA SodaStream profit more than triples, shares jump – MW

5. WIX:

$WIX Israel’s beats estimates, sees strong 2017 – Reuters

6. SEDG:

$SEDG SolarEdge Announces Quarter Ended December 31, 2016 Financial Results – BW

7. ARDX:

$ARDX Ardelyx Says Ph 3 Trial of Tenapanor for Hyperphosphatemia in Patients w ESRD Met Primary Endpt

8. ANGI:

$ANGI Angie’s List tops profit estimates as revenue falls short – MW

9. ADI:

$ADI Analog Devices Tops Q1 EPS by 20c; Issues Solid Outlook – SI

10. A:

$A Agilent beats Street 1Q forecasts – AP

11. SQ, TWTR:

$TWTR Dorsey’s valentine to Twitter investors: $7 million investment, days after Square $SQ sale – MW

12. PG:

$PG Trian takes $3.5 billion stake in Procter & Gamble – SI

13. HUN:

$HUN Huntsman Q4 Profit Surges, Expects Higher Earnings In FY17 – Nasdaq

14. SHOP:

$SHOP Shopify ends 2016 with solid results, forecasts stronger-than-expected 2017 – Globe & Mail

15. FOLD:

$FOLD Amicus Therapeutics Highlights New Fabry Program Data at WORLDSymposium™ 2017 – GN

16. HLT: $HLT Hilton’s Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues In Line – Zacks

17. PYPL: $PYPL PayPal buys TIO Networks for $233 million – TechCrunch

18. HUM: $HUM Humana Plans to Pull Out of Obamacare’s Insurance Exchanges – NYT

19. PEP: $PEP PepsiCo Profits From Healthy Foods as Americans Ditch Soda – BBG

20. ANTM, CI: $ANTM Anthem sues Cigna $CI to block deal termination – Reuters

21. HUM: $HUM The Clock Is Ticking for Humana – BBG Gadfly

22. USFD: $USFD US Foods Tops Q4 EPS by 8c; Guides In-Line – SI

23. ESRX:

$ESRX Express Scripts revenue falls unexpectedly – MW

24. MRK:

$MRK Merck Stops Alzheimer’s Study After ‘No Chance’ of Benefit – BBG

25. CSX:

$CSX CSX seeks shareholder vote over activist investor’s demands – MW

26. AIG:

$AIG AIG Posts $3.04 Billion Loss, Adding to CEO Hancock’s Woes – BBG

27. HOLI:

$HOLI Hollysys Automation Technologies Reports Unaudited Financial Results – PRN

28. LC:

$LC LendingClub Gives Downbeat Outlook – WSJ

29. CRNT:

$CRNT Ceragon Networks Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results – PRN

30. TRUP:

$TRUP Trupanion reports 4Q loss – AP

31. FOSL:

$FOSL Fossil Tanks 15% on Weak Q4 Earnings, Even Weaker Revenues – Zacks

32. EARS:

$EARS Auris Medical Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Shares and Warrants – GN

UPGRADES

1. ACOR:$ACOR upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman. PT $22

2. IPGP:IPG Photonics upgraded to buy from neutral at Dougherty. Price target $137. $IPGP 2/14 close: 117.02 #stocks

3. OMF:OneMain upgraded to outperform from neutral at Wedbush. Price target raised from $30 to $35. $OMF 2/14 close: 26.69…

4. PH:Parker-Hannifin upgraded to buy from neutral at BofA. Price target raised $23 to $180. $PH 2/14 close: 152.63…

DOWNGRADES

1. AYR:Aircastle Limited was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Cowen & Co. $AYR

2. UA, UAA:Susquehanna Downgrades Under Armour, Inc. $UAA $UA to Negative, $14 PT

EARNINGS

1. HLT:$HLT reports FQ4 earnings of 70c EPS and $2.92B Revs –

2. HUN:$HUN reports FQ4 earnings of 30c EPS and $2.40B Revs –

3. PLAB:$PLAB reports FQ1 earnings of 3c EPS and $109.83M Revs –

4. BG:$BG reports FQ4 earnings of $1.70 EPS and $12.06B Revs –

5. WIX:$WIX reports FQ4 earnings of 6c EPS and $84.18M Revs –

6. FUN:$FUN reports FQ4 earnings of -12c EPS and $191.97M Revs –

7. WYN:$WYN reports FQ4 earnings of $1.35 EPS and $1.32B Revs –

8. PEP:$PEP reports FQ4 earnings of $1.20 EPS and $19.52B Revs –

9. ALE:$ALE reports FQ4 earnings of 89c EPS and $341.50M Revs –

10. DNOW:$DNOW reports FQ4 earnings of -29c EPS and $538M Revs –

11. DNOW:$DNOW reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $1.92M –

12. ETR:$ETR reports FQ4 earnings of 31c EPS and $2.65B Revs –

13. CRWS:$CRWS reports FQ3 earnings of 19c EPS and $17.26M Revs –

14. SHOP:$SHOP reports FQ4 earnings of 0c EPS and $130.38M Revs –

15. LAD:$LAD reports FQ4 earnings of $1.86 EPS and $2.29B Revs –

16. ELOS:$ELOS reports FQ4 earnings of 14c EPS and $82.89M Revs –

17. SONS:$SONS reports FQ4 earnings of 9c EPS and $67.57M Revs –

18. ALKS:$ALKS reports FQ4 earnings of 15c EPS and $213.51M Revs –

19. ANGI:$ANGI reports FQ4 earnings of 14c EPS and $76.67M Revs –

20. CGEN:$CGEN reports FQ4 earnings of -17c EPS and $0.05M Revs –

21. CRNT:$CRNT reports FQ4 earnings of 7c EPS and $84.67M Revs –

22. CRNT:$CRNT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $3.84M –

23. TRGP:$TRGP reports FQ4 earnings of 38c EPS and $2.01B Revs –

24. SODA:$SODA reports FQ4 earnings of 71c EPS and $131.80M Revs –

25. OZM:$OZM reports FQ4 earnings of 2c EPS and $281.26M Revs –

26. OZM:$OZM reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $37.02M –

27. ADI:$ADI reports FQ1 earnings of 94c EPS and $984.45M Revs –

28. GRPN:$GRPN reports FQ4 earnings of 7c EPS and $934.89M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. SODA:SodaStream beats by $0.35, beats on revenue #premarket $SODA

2. ARDX:Ardelyx touts a PhIII hyperphosphatemia success for tenapanor, looking to calm fears over diarrhea $ARDX

3. WYN:Wyndham Worldwide beats by $0.05, misses on revenue #premarket $WYN

4. TRIL:$TRIL to Present New Data from TTI-621 Phase 1 Trial

5. ALKS:$ALKS VIVITROL ramp.

6. BPMC:$BPMC Morgan Stanley initiates as an overweight

7. MRK:Here is why $mrk R&D head Roger Peelmutter isn’t abandoning amyloid.

Trending News Headlines

1. Analyst Downgrades Under Armour Stock After Its CEO Praises Donald Trump

Under Armour Inc.’s chief executive officer made a mistake praising President Donald Trump, and the move could take a toll on the company’s reputation and stock price, according to a Susquehanna International Group analyst.

2. Trillium Therapeutics to Present New Data from TTI-621 Phase 1 Trial

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Feb. 15, 2017) – Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIL)(TSX:TRIL), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it will present new data from the Phase 1 trial of its anti-CD47 checkpoint inhibitor TTI-621 at the ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium on February…

3. Anthem sues Cigna to block deal termination

Anthem Inc said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit seeking to block smaller rival Cigna Corp from terminating their proposed $54 billion deal, which would have created the largest U.S. health insurer by membership.

4. dough on Twitter

“@odibro CS agrees. $BIIB no read thru from $MRK AD Data”

5. Alkermes plc Reports Financial Results for the Year Ended Dec. 31, 2016 and Provides Financial Expectations for 2017 | Business Wire

Alkermes plc (NASDAQ: ALKS) today reported financial results for the twelve months ended Dec. 31, 2016 and provided financial expectations for 2017. &

Technology News

1. PewDiePie got red pilled many months ago & the mainstream entertainment industry is now canning him.

Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate a Maker Studios spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday.

With million subscribers Kjellberg has amassed one of the largest audiences on YouTube by posting clips of himself playing and talking about video games accompanied by humorous commentary.

The Walt Disney Company zealously defends its brand it decided not to bid for Twitter last year in part because it was concerned with trolls on that social network but this is not the first time that the entertainment conglomerate has had trouble from units.

2. A new ‘Signal’ update allows encrypted video calling. Here’s how to keep it from leaking your metadata to Apple

Open Whisper SystemsBut anyone testing the beta who links their iPhone to iCloud and wants the same level of privacy Signal has always offered should consider an extra step too Disabling a setting that uploads a metadata to Apple.

He suggests that the app could mere display in the call log to protect identities or Signal may walk users through its settings when once installed to help people choose their privacy preferences.

In the new version voice and video calling will drop those word pairs and instead use the same authentication system as its text messaging feature which depends instead on simply warning users if their encryption key has suspiciously changed.

3. Antivirus company finds new sample of Russian govt (APT28) malware that targets Macs and specifically iPhone backups

But the most important module from an perspective is the one that allows the operator s to exfiltrate iPhone backups stored on a compromised Mac.

Our past analysis of samples known to be linked to group shows a number of similarities between the Xagent component for and the Mac OS binary that currently forms the object of our investigation.

We conclude this brief teaser with the assertion that the Komplex component discovered in September has been exclusively used as a downloader and installer for the Xagent binary.

4. An IBM master inventor and his son invented an interface that could “fundamentally improve how cybersecurity works”

That fall weekend Mike showed Evan Services Virtual Analyst a fancy name for a chatbot capable of fielding basic queries through the keyboard.

Spisak hooked Havyn up to IBM BigFix and endpoint security manager that can ascertain not just what cyberthreats exist but whether any directly impact a given system.

are things analysts could be doing on their own but it takes them five or eight minutes says Justin Grant director of strategy for IBM Managed Security Services whose teams are running the Havyn beta.

5. In a truly user-hostile move, Facebook is now setting all videos to play sound automatically by default

Dan Rose VP of Partnerships announced the new app at the Code Media conference at the in Dana Point Calif.

A box app should give Facebook and its partners more opportunities to turn video views into ad dollars.

The Wall Street Journal reported in late January that Facebook was building an app for boxes.

6. The weirdest M&A deal of 2017: Japan’s Softbank buying Wall Street denizen Fortress Investment Group for $3 billion.

ET SoftBank Group agreed to buy asset manager Fortress Investment Group LLC for billion in a surprising move that is part of an effort by the Japanese technology giant to transform itself into one of the largest investment firms.

Fortress Class A stockholders are to get a share the companies announced late Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal.

That is above the closing price Monday.

7. Why do companies change policies after they end up in controversy — perhaps because don’t have ethics to begin with

On Monday evening Disney announced it was severing ties with PewDiePie and now The Verge can report that YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with its most famous face.

But YouTube did remove ads from the videos that set off this uproar and will no doubt be keeping a close eye on whatever their provocative poster boy uploads in the near future.

The turn of events could prove a setback for subscription service YouTube Red which was heavily marketed in conjunction with PewDiePie.

8. Yet another sign that SoftBank is transforming into an investment company

Fortress Class A stockholders are to get a share the companies announced late Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal.

That is above the closing price Monday.

9. Google Cloud Spanner promises all 3 of Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance; which one will it fail at?

The idea here is to allow developers to take all of the knowledge they built in writing applications and allow them to take that to a new database service that still uses the SQL syntax and offers ACID transactions something you want for your point of sales system if you are a retailer for example but also offers many of the advantages of modern NoSQL databases combined with the kind of scalability and global network that Google itself needs to run its products.

She also noted that while there is no theoretical limit as to how big a Cloud Spanner database can be and she also stressed that no reason you use it for smaller projects as well the main advantage here necessarily scalability but also the ability to do global transactions.

Google also promises percent uptimes for Cloud Spanner and the project will launch with client libraries for languages like Java Go Python and.

10. Microsoft prez calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to protect world from nation-state hacking

Smith outlined his proposal during keynote remarks at this week RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco following a presidential election marred by the hacking and disclosure of Democratic Party emails that intelligence agencies concluded were carried out by Russia in order to help Republican Donald Trump win.

Smith likened such an organization which would include technical experts from governments and the private sector to the International Atomic Energy Agency a watchdog based at the United Nations that works to deter the use of nuclear weapons.

Smith also said the technology sector needed to work collectively and neutrally to protect internet users around the world from cyber attacks including a pledge not to aid governments in offensive activity and the adoption of a coordinated disclosure process for software and hardware vulnerabilities.

Ready to Buy The Market? $SPX

by Alpha | Feb 15, 2017 | IKE, Market Update

Most if not all of our stocks pick targets have been making new highs and we have been booking profits as we go higher. At these market levels it would not surprise us to see retail try to short it to only lead us higher as dip buyers have been rewarded for their bullish positions from stock buying or selling premium via put credit spreads, (if any can be found).

There is so much money sitting on the sideline waiting to buy a stock market breakout, hence a break out from current level can be very strong and would means another 25 handles in $SPX, which can take us up to 2367 area..thus far we will will continue look for buying opportunities on any pullback.

Here is the 60 minutes chart on ES

Open Interest for EOW3 expiration on Fri 2/17/17.

For Monday 13th these were, PCR: 2.724 (UP from 2.525) Change PCR executed at 10.385

For Tuesday 14th these were, PCR: 2.792 (UP from 2.724) Change PCR executed at 5.724

For Wednesday 15th, these are PCR: 2.893 (UP from 2.792) Change PCR executed at 4.732

Early movers: $HUM, $AET, $GM, $PLKI, $GILD, $AAPL, $ANF, $DISCA, $GNRC, $ITT & more

by Alpha | Feb 14, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. GIG, IDTI:

$GIG IDT Inc. $IDTI to buy GigPeak Inc. for $250 million all-cash deal – MW

2. SALE:

$SALE RetailMeNot Tops Q4 EPS by 6c; Issues Solid Outlook – SI

3. GM:

$GM Opel and PSA Group in merger talks

4. CSOD:

$CSOD Cornerstone OnDemand delivers mixed Q4 – ZDnet

5. QTNA:

$QTNA Quantenna Tops Q4 EPS by 2c – SI

6. GUID:

$GUID Guidance Software Tops Q4 EPS by 3c; Guides FY17 EPS Above the Street – SI

7. CS:

$CS to cut up to 6,500 jobs in 2017; reports larger loss than expected via @Reuters

8. GILD:

$GILD HIV candidate bictegravir shows robust treatment effect in mid-stage study $GILD

9. BABA, MAT:

$MAT And $BABA Form Global Strategic Partnership

10. VRX:

$VRX Valeant, Pearson, Pershing Square, & Ackman Enter ‘Litigation Management Agreement’ – SI

11. RNG: $RNG RingCentral reports 4Q loss – AP

12. PDFS: $PDFS PDF Solutions matches Street 4Q forecasts – AP

13. ITT: $ITT ITT Sees FY17 Earnings In Line With Estimates; Hikes Dividend – Nasdaq

14. DISCA: $DISCA Discovery tops 4Q profit forecasts – AP

15. GOOGL: $GOOGL One Reason Staffers Quit Google’s Car Project? The Company Paid Them So Much – BBG

16. TRXC: $TRXC TransEnterix Reports First Clinical Use of Senhance Robotic Surgical System in France – SI

17. AAPL: $AAPL Apple has a new TV show, so will it finally buy a big media company? No, says Eddy Cue. – Recode

18. RH: $RH Restoration Hardware recalls metal tables after lead reports – ABC

19. AET, HUM: $HUM Aetna $AET Gives Up On Merger, Will Pay Humana $1B Breakup Fee – Forbes

20. SYT:

$SYT Syngenta Says U.S. Extends ChemChina-Deal Antitrust Review – BBG

21. TMUS:

$TMUS USA tops Q4 consensus for earnings, revenues via @TheStreet

22. BKD:

$BKD Brookdale Shares Lower; Company Says Supply and Labor Pressures Will Continue – TheStreet

23. CYNO, HOLX:

$HOLX to Acquire $CYNO for $1.65B via @Street_Insider

24. GLNG:

$GLNG Golar LNG Limited Announces Proposed Offering of $350M of Convertible Senior Notes due 2022 – GN

25. TTM:

$TTM Tata Motors profit falls, missing estimates – MW

26. AMKR:

$AMKR Amkor Tech shares drop on revenue miss, outlook – MW

27. HIBB:

$HIBB Hibbett Sports Prelim. Q4 and FY18 EPS Guidance Misses Views – SI

28. AVIR:

$AVIR Aviragen Antiviral Drug Vapendavir Fails Phase IIb Study in Asthma Patients – GEN

29. AET, HUM: $AET, $HUM mutually end merger agreement via @WSJ

UPGRADES

1. BAM, GLBL, TERP:TerraForm Power upgraded to Neutral from Sell at UBS $TERP $BAM $GLBL

2. STNG:$STNG upgraded to Buy @ MS

3. UA:$UA upgraded to Neutral @ MS

DOWNGRADES

1. DEPO:$DEPO downgraded from Buy to Neutral at Mizuho. PT $17

EARNINGS

1. SALE:$SALE reports FQ4 earnings of 37c EPS and $96.89M Revs –

2. ACOR:$ACOR reports FQ4 earnings of 5c EPS and $140.63M Revs –

3. GNRC:$GNRC reports FQ4 earnings of $1.12 EPS and $417.42M Revs –

4. CRL:$CRL reports FQ4 earnings of $1.21 EPS and $466.79M Revs –

5. STFC:$STFC reports FQ4 earnings of 46c EPS and $364.90M Revs –

6. CPLA:$CPLA reports FQ4 earnings of 97c EPS and $111.31M Revs –

7. TRU:$TRU reports FQ4 earnings of 44c EPS and $435.90M Revs –

8. DISCA:$DISCA reports FQ4 earnings of 56c EPS and $1.67B Revs –

9. ITT:$ITT reports FQ4 earnings of 48c EPS and $588.40M Revs –

10. DSX:$DSX reports FQ4 earnings of -37c EPS and $28.02M Revs –

11. LECO:$LECO reports FQ4 earnings of 81c EPS and $563.83M Revs –

12. LECO:$LECO reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $21.02M –

13. MLM:$MLM reports FQ4 earnings of $1.55 EPS and $889M Revs –

14. WSO:$WSO reports FQ4 earnings of 81c EPS and $913.61M Revs –

15. TMUS:$TMUS reports FQ4 earnings of 45c EPS and $10.18B Revs –

16. AYR:$AYR reports FQ4 earnings of 90c EPS and $204.65M Revs –

17. FLIR:$FLIR reports FQ4 earnings of 52c EPS and $474.74M Revs –

18. DPS:$DPS reports FQ4 earnings of $1.04 EPS and $1.58B Revs –

19. IPGP:$IPGP reports FQ4 earnings of $1.39 EPS and $280.12M Revs –

20. VG:$VG reports FQ4 earnings of 3c EPS and $246.76M Revs –

21. NMM:$NMM reports FQ4 earnings of 9c EPS and $49.67M Revs –

22. TTS:$TTS reports FQ4 earnings of 7c EPS and $76.61M Revs –

23. INCY:$INCY reports FQ4 earnings of 5c EPS and $326.50M Revs –

24. DBD:$DBD reports FQ4 earnings of 32c EPS and $1.24B Revs –

25. TOWR:$TOWR reports FQ4 earnings of $1.02 EPS and $462.27M Revs –

26. TAP:$TAP reports FQ4 earnings of 46c EPS and $2.29B Revs –

27. Q:$Q reports FQ4 earnings of $1.09 EPS and $1.95B Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. CYNO:$CYNO halted

2. IONS:$IONS $75M Milestone from Bayer for Advancing IONIS-FXI Rx and IONIS-FXI-L Rx

3. INCY:$INCY Jakafi Q4 revenues of $238M is right in-line with estimates.

4. AGEN:$AGEN forced to amend its cancer immunotherapy collaboration w/ $INCY bc co. needs money now. Shows lack of confidence.

5. GILD:It’s nice to write + about $GILD. Been long time. Even w/ strong bictegravir data, $GILD still needs to find growth

6. GM:Will Tesla Achieve Its 2017 Unit Guidance? Not A Chance $GM $TSLA

7. HOLX:$HOLX to Acquire $CYNO, Leader in Medical Aesthetics Systems and Technologies for $66/share, $1.65B

8. AET:BREAKING: Aetna, Humana end merger $AET $HUM

9. TMUS:Happy #ValentinesDay AND $TMUS earnings day!! Ready to feel the 💖? It’s all about the 💖 for our customers, sharehol…

10. ZLTQ:Yesterday $ZLTQ, today $CYNO… Aesthetics smoking hot

Trending News Headlines

1. Odi on Twitter

“$HOLX to Acquire $CYNO, Leader in Medical Aesthetics Systems and Technologies for $66/share, $1.65B”

2. Aetna, Humana Mutually End Merger Agreement

Aetna and Humana won’t appeal a judge’s decision to block their merger on antitrust grounds, avoiding what had been widely seen as an uphill battle to preserve the $34 billion deal.

3. YouTube Star PewDiePie Is Dropped by Disney After Reports of Anti-Semitic Imagery

PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, is the most popular user on YouTube. His videos have attracted nearly 14.7 billion views.

4. Amazon is thinking about parachuting parcels to customers after dropping them from drones

The ecommerce giant described in a patent filing that it could ‘forcefully propel a package from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), while the UAV is in motion.’

5. Are OPEC’s Cuts Adding Up to Lower Oil Prices?

Measuring the success of OPEC’s latest pledge to decrease oil output has never been harder as traders look beyond the group’s compliance numbers to gauge impact on prices.

6. Credit Suisse to cut 5,500 jobs in 2017 after $2.4 billion full-year loss

Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) posted a 2.44 billion Swiss franc ($2.43 billion) net loss for 2016, its second straight year in the red, keeping pressure on Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam to deliver on his turnaround plan for Switzerland’s second-biggest bank.

Technology News

1. Take the time to watch this video about PewdiePie’s anti-semitic videos. Captures this man in a way words don’t

ET Millions of people have watched a video by biggest star that included two men laughing as they held a banner that read to all.

The man behind the video is Felix Kjellberg a Swede known as who has amassed million subscribers.

His success has brought him deals from.

2. An IBM master inventor and his son invented an interface that could “fundamentally improve how cybersecurity works”

That fall weekend Mike showed Evan Services Virtual Analyst a fancy name for a chatbot capable of fielding basic queries through the keyboard.

Spisak hooked Havyn up to IBM BigFix and endpoint security manager that can ascertain not just what cyberthreats exist but whether any directly impact a given system.

3. Here’s why some staffers quit Google’s car project

In December the car unit morphed into a standalone business called Waymo and the system was replaced with a more uniform pay structure that treats all employees the same according to a person familiar with the situation.

Part of the problem was that payouts snowballed after key milestones were reached even though the ultimate goal of the project fully autonomous vehicles provided to the public through commercial services remained years away.

Other early project members left to form Otto a trucking company that was quickly snapped up by Uber Technologies Bryan Salesky a former Google car executive started Argo AI which got a billion investment from Ford Motor on Friday.

4. Apple’s new TV show has @JessicaAlba & @GwynethPaltrow telling people why their app ideas are terrible.

of the is coming to Apple Music in the next few months said Ben Silverman at the Code Media conference at the in Dana Point the CEO of Propagate the production company partnering with Apple to create the show.

the moment that you swipe and it goes to the screen reminded that apps like music like television like film are a dominant part of our cultural landscape.

Watch the full with interview with Eddy Cue and Ben Silverman below.

5. Apple has a new TV show, so will it finally buy a big media company? No, says Eddy Cue. #CodeMedia

was produced by Ben Silverman a former of NBC Entertainment who was also behind hit shows like the and the version of.

So now that Apple is producing original content Recode senior editor Peter Kafka asked Eddy Cue head of content a key question at the Code Media conference at the in Dana Point Will Apple finally just go ahead and buy a big film studio or media company like Sony Pictures or Time Warner or Netflix or Lionsgate.

We think we have a real opportunity in the TV space to do that with Apple Music and shows and the things we trying to do are being done by anybody else.

6. I don’t understand how millions of people can watch an anti-Semitic video before it’s discovered

ET Millions of people have watched a video by biggest star that included two men laughing as they held a banner that read to all.

The man behind the video is Felix Kjellberg a Swede known as who has amassed million subscribers.

His success has brought him deals from.

7. This is big trouble for YouTube Red, who was using an exclusive PewDiePie show to sell subscriptions

ET Millions of people have watched a video by biggest star that included two men laughing as they held a banner that read to all.

The man behind the video is Felix Kjellberg a Swede known as who has amassed million subscribers.

His success has brought him deals from.

8. In other news: @KurtWagner8 asks Apple SVP Eddy Cue about AR/VR, Cue says he doesn’t talk about “future products” HM

Apple wants original content and Eddy Cue who heads up media strategy is in charge of making that happen.

Watch his interview with Peter Kafka live in the YouTube video above starting tonight at pm PT and follow along in the liveblog from our Code Media conference.

9. “We’re hopeful that they are moving towards licensing music for the entire site,” said @DavidIsraelite

A parade of musicians from Universal Music took the stage at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Saturday in a Awards performance for a room full of the executives who will make or break their careers.

Video consumption on Facebook has grown to billions of views over the past couple of years as TV networks news organizations and users experiment with the site much like they once did with YouTube.

is a very valuable company making a lot of money and in part because of the music on the site Israelite said adding the social network is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act the same law that can shield YouTube from responsibility for pirated material.

10. I ‘star’ everything good on Google Maps so it’s good to see Google adding lists to them!

Is your bucket list etched in your memory or scribbled on a dozen notes scattered around your home.

Simply open the Google Maps app and find that BBQ spot been wanting to try.

Whenever friends and family come to town tap the share button to get a link and start flexing your local knowledge muscles.

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SoftBank to Buy Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 Billion | $FIG, $TWTR, $SODA, $WIX, $HLT, $PEP, $HUM, $PYPL

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Ready to Buy The Market? $SPX

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Early movers: $HUM, $AET, $GM, $PLKI, $GILD, $AAPL, $ANF, $DISCA, $GNRC, $ITT & more

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