PRE-MARKET | December 16, 2016 | $IOC, $XOM, $ADBE, $VZ, $YHOO, $HZNP, $MYL, $MRK, $GILD

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5. HZNP:$hznp w/ lots of positive notes & upgrade: Mizuho ups to buy $25 PT Stifel reiterates $35 PT Jefferies reiterates buy & $25 PT
8. REGN:$REGN upgraded to Buy from Neutral at BTIG. PT $460

 

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5. IONS:$IONS AstraZeneca Exercises Option to License IONIS-KRAS-2.5 Rx $AZN.
6. XBIT:$XBIT — No CHMP opinion on Xilonix. Uh oh..
7. AGIO:$AGIO PT lowered to $45 from $56 at Leerink
8. VCEL:$VCEL 6.2m shares at $2.75, hearing from Fly

 

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1. European Medicines Agency – News and Events – Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 12-15 December 2016

An agency of the European Union

2. This Is Why Verizon Wants to Buy Digital Media Companies

Verizon Communications Inc.’s deal with Yahoo! Inc. has hit a rocky patch, but the phone giant is forging ahead with a strategy focusing on mobile advertising and still has appetite for more deals.

3. Jabil Circuit’s Quarterly Results Largely Beat Targets

Apple Inc. supplier Jabil Circuit Inc.’s quarterly results largely beat Wall Street projections, bolstered by stronger-than-projected results from its diversified manufacturing services segment, which includes Apple.

4. Valeant’s 2016 Has Been All Pain, No Gain Amid Record Stock Drop

Of all the major health-care stocks to own in 2016, perhaps the worst to own has been Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.

5. Jabil comments point to iPhone weakness now, strength later, says UBS

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    The decision comes after Facebook received heated criticism for its role in spreading a deluge of political misinformation during the US presidential election like one story that falsely said the Pope had endorsed Donald Trump.
    We are only involved to the extent that Facebook relies on the list of signatories to our code of principles as a starting point for the organizations it chooses to verify a Poynter representative told Business Insider.
    But after facing significant backlash for its denial to stories on its network Zuckerberg now calls Facebook a new kind of platform with a responsibility to build a space where people can be informed.
    The answer as always is war gentlemen at a time of our choosing.
    With the Deutsche Bank chat logs showing a collusive network across banks it would seem unlikely that the defendants will be able to refute the antitrust claim by the plaintiffs.
    The auto industry is changing more today than it has in the past years and nothing says this more clearly than the growing push to develop and introduce autonomous vehicles AVs.
    At GM we dramatically accelerated our own AV development efforts this past spring when we acquired Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation.
    By adding Michigan to our testing program ensuring that our AVs can operate safely across a wide range of road weather and climate conditions from desert heat to Great Lakes snow to crowded city streets.
    That means we need to be transparent admit our missteps and commit to making the Evernote experience the best it can be from the way the app functions across platforms to the way we communicate with the people who use This was the message from Evernote CEO Chris today.
    As a result we will not implement the previously announced Privacy Policy changes that were scheduled to go into effect January.
    Instead in the coming months we will be revising our existing Privacy Policy to address our concerns reinforce that their data remains private by default and confirm the trust they have placed in Evernote is well founded.
    The decision comes after Facebook received heated criticism for its role in spreading a deluge of political misinformation during the US presidential election like one story that falsely said the Pope had endorsed Donald Trump.
    We are only involved to the extent that Facebook relies on the list of signatories to our code of principles as a starting point for the organizations it chooses to verify a Poynter representative told Business Insider.
    But after facing significant backlash for its denial to stories on its network Zuckerberg now calls Facebook a new kind of platform with a responsibility to build a space where people can be informed.
    Released yesterday the update should make downloads faster for all Xbox One owners.
    Anecdotally Xbox Live has long offered download speeds that are higher than those on the PlayStation Network.
    An independent study earlier this year found that network is faster and more reliable than although that report focused on comparing factors like lag and matchmaking rather than download speeds.
    Now when AP or another participating organization flags a piece of content as fake Facebook users will see that it has been disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why.
    AP has consistently provided nonpartisan fact checks to its member news organizations and customers which objectively examine the claims of politicians and government and other officials.
    A fake news story prompted a man to fire a rifle inside the popular pizza place as he attempted to a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from there police said.
    Still probably in favor to work with the incoming administration especially as it starts to shape new policies that are dear to heart like regulations to bring cars to roadways and whether to abide by the Paris climate agreement or pull out a threat Trump made on the campaign trail.
    That sit well with Musk who will likely urge the Trump administration to remain a signatory on the international climate accord.
    Rex Tillerson pick for secretary of state and CEO of Exxon Mobil also supported participation in the climate talks and endorsed the idea of a national carbon tax.
    Conservatives reacted with alarm to Facebook announcement that it will partner with to combat fake news expressing extreme skepticism the would be applied equally to both sides of the political spectrum.
    Charles Cooke editor of National Review Online the premier conservative news outlet for decades told Business Insider in an email that he agreed with everything RBPundit said.
    Mark Hemingway a senior writer at the Weekly Standard a conservative magazine reacted with three blunt words when he saw Facebook announcement OH HELL NO.
    We use the reports from our community along with other signals to send stories to these organizations Facebook VP Adam Mosseri said in a blog post Thursday.
    Facebook and other social media companies are under pressure from users and journalism advocacy groups to combat the proliferation of fake news.
    At a recent journalism industry conference Facebook representatives said that addressing the spread of knowingly fake stories is the priority at the highest levels of the company.

 

PRE-MARKET | December 15, 2016 | $ATHN, $IDCC, $LLY, $CVS, $PIR, $CHTR, $VZ, $DXCM, $MPEL

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1. Exclusive: Inside the BOJ, rate hikes are back on the radar. Really

Interest rate hikes are back on the radar at the Bank of Japan, for the first time in a decade, as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s tightening cycle pushes global bond yields higher, heralding a new era for central banks retreating from post-crisis stimulus.

2. Nobody Agrees When Oil Market Will Re-Balance After OPEC Deal

The first half. No, the second. Certainly this year. Or next.

3. Exclusive: Cost of pump-at-will oil policy spurred Saudi OPEC U-turn

Saudi Arabia has long said it could produce as much as 12 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil if needed, but that pump-at-will claim – which would require huge capital spending to access spare capacity – has never been tested.

4. Press Release | Investor Relations | Bluebird Bio

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MUNICH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 15, 2016– bluebird bio, Inc. ( Nasdaq: BLUE ), a clinical-stage company committed to developing potentially transformative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases and T cell-based immunotherapies for cancer and apceth Biopharma GmbH ( www.apceth.com ), the global innovator and leader in the development of engineered mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapeutics and a successful and established contract development and manufacturing organization in the field of cell and gene therapy, announced today that they have entered into a strategic manufacturing agreement providing for the future European commercial production of bluebird bio’s Lenti-D™ product candidate for cerebral adrenoleukodystropy and its LentiGlobin™ product candidate for transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia.

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    Jobs skilled immigration and China were the main topics on the table at a meeting between president elect Trump and the world most powerful tech executives a person familiar with what was discussed told CNBC on Wednesday.
    The discussions were friendly productive and covered a lot of ground the source said.
    Other topics included security particularly in the context of China according to the source as well as vocational education outside of the major tech hubs regulation and the tax rate on repatriation of overseas profits.
    The meeting was the first major summit between technology leaders and Trump who has had a shaky relationship with the tech industry and publicly criticized companies such as Apple and Amazon while running for office.
    The CEOs of the three most valuable public American companies by market cap Apple Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft were included in the meeting with Trump but they were the leaders whom he kept by his side.
    Eric Trump Brad Smith Microsoft president and chief legal officer Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and CEO Larry Page Google founder and Alphabet CEO Sheryl Sandberg Facebook COO Mike Pence Donald Trump Peter Thiel venture capitalist.
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    We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans immigrants and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming proposed data collection policies.
    We recognize that mass deportations precipitated the very atrocity the word genocide was created to describe the murder of million Armenians in Turkey.
    We refuse to participate in the creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race religion or national origin.
    A room full of some of the top tech leaders in our country Apple Facebook Cisco Intel Microsoft IBM Oracle Amazon Tesla and so forth.
    Trump has been Tweeting negative comments about Boeing and Lockheed Martin and taking all too literally the colloquialism of the in a way that directly affects individual stocks and companies.
    If we live in a society where the President of the United States publicly bullies companies like Boeing Lockheed Martin and Carrier you can imagine coming for our sector when they try to stand up to autocratic tendencies.
    Like at a good wedding the seating chart is decision should be made with utmost caution and intention.
    According to Republican National Committee spokesperson Sean Spicer the table simply was not big enough.
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    ET Donald Trump and his advisers met with prominent technology.
    Uber Technologies is barreling ahead with testing autonomous cars in San Francisco despite stiff opposition from the state of California which called the experiment illegal and threatened to sue.
    The firm on Wednesday said San Francisco residents could now hail a handful of autonomous vehicles within city limits expanding a test that began three months ago in Pittsburgh.

 

PRE-MARKET | December 14, 2016 | #FOMC , $AAPL, $GOOGL, $AMZN, $TWTR, $AKAM, $NVDA, $IBM, $DIS, $NFLX

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1. bluebird bio Announces First Patient Treated with LentiGlobinTM Drug Product in Northstar-2 (HGB-207) Phase 3 Trial of Patients with Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassemia

bluebird bio, Inc. , a clinical-stage company committed to developing potentially transformative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases and T cell-based immunotherapies for cancer, announced treatment of the first patient in Northstar-2, the Phase 3 study of its LentiGlobin drug product in patients

2. Analysts track a payer revolt against Sarepta’s controversial Duchenne drug

When the FDA’s Janet Woodcock pushed through a controversial approval for Sarepta’s Exondys 51 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in September, she created a test case for payers who were essentially being asked to reimburse for an experimental drug. But instead of rolling with the situation and paying a price that

3. Uber, SpaceX/Tesla, and PepsiCo execs join Trump business council

Elon Musk, the chairman and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla as well as Uber Technologies CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi have joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s advisory council, Trump’s transition team said on Wednesday.

4. Goldman Sachs (GS) Names David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz as Presidents and Co-COOs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that David M. Solomon and Harvey M. Schwartz were named Presidents and Co-Chief Operating Officers; R. Martin Chavez was named…

5. FDA Approves MACI for the Treatment of Symptomatic Cartilage Defects of the Knee in Adults

First Tissue-Engineered Autologous Cellularized Scaffold Product Approved by the FDA. Conference Call Today at 9:00am Eastern Standard Time. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 14, 2016– Vericel Corporation, a leading …

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    In recent days a skeptical the intelligence agencies and the two major parties have become embroiled in an extraordinary public dispute over what evidence exists that President Vladimir Putin of Russia moved beyond mere espionage to deliberately try to subvert American democracy and pick the winner of the presidential election.
    were just a lot more stealthy said Kevin Mandia a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent most of his days fighting off Russian cyberattacks before founding Mandiant a cybersecurity firm that is now a division of FireEye and the company the Clinton campaign brought in to secure its own systems.
    The same day the United States formally accused the Russian government of being behind the hackings in a joint statement by the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security and Trump suffered his worst blow to date with the release of a recording in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
    and Republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyberattacks said Senators John McCain Lindsey Graham Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed.
    were just a lot more stealthy said Kevin Mandia a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent most of his days fighting off Russian cyberattacks before founding Mandiant a cybersecurity firm that is now a division of FireEye and the company the Clinton campaign brought in to secure its own systems.
    The same day the United States formally accused the Russian government of being behind the hackings in a joint statement by the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security and Trump suffered his worst blow to date with the release of a recording in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
    Earlier today BuzzFeed News emailed Facebook to ask whether the social networking giant would make a commitment to limit data collection that could be used for ethnic or religious targeting including a pledge not to build a registry of Muslims if asked to do so by the government.
    The question of such a registry arose based on comments about Muslims and his intention to build a database of Syrian refugees.
    Since the election Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach an adviser to transition team told Reuters that immigration policy group is considering reinstating the National Security Registration System NSEERS a suspended federal program used to keep a database of immigrants from countries that have a Muslim majority from to.
    and Republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyberattacks said Senators John McCain Lindsey Graham Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed.
    were just a lot more stealthy said Kevin Mandia a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent most of his days fighting off Russian cyberattacks before founding Mandiant a cybersecurity firm that is now a division of FireEye and the company the Clinton campaign brought in to secure its own systems.
    The same day the United States formally accused the Russian government of being behind the hackings in a joint statement by the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security and Trump suffered his worst blow to date with the release of a recording in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
    and Republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyberattacks said Senators John McCain Lindsey Graham Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed.
    were just a lot more stealthy said Kevin Mandia a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent most of his days fighting off Russian cyberattacks before founding Mandiant a cybersecurity firm that is now a division of FireEye and the company the Clinton campaign brought in to secure its own systems.
    The same day the United States formally accused the Russian government of being behind the hackings in a joint statement by the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security and Trump suffered his worst blow to date with the release of a recording in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
    and Republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyberattacks said Senators John McCain Lindsey Graham Chuck Schumer and Jack Reed.
    were just a lot more stealthy said Kevin Mandia a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent most of his days fighting off Russian cyberattacks before founding Mandiant a cybersecurity firm that is now a division of FireEye and the company the Clinton campaign brought in to secure its own systems.
    The same day the United States formally accused the Russian government of being behind the hackings in a joint statement by the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security and Trump suffered his worst blow to date with the release of a recording in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.
    But if the goal of president Vladimir Putin was to make American democracy a less attractive model to his own citizens and to neighbors then entangling congressional races in accusations of leaks and subterfuge was a step in the right direction.
    The intrusions in House races in states including Pennsylvania New Hampshire Ohio Illinois New Mexico and North Carolina can be traced to tens of thousands of pages of documents taken from the which shares a Capitol Hill office building with the Democratic National Committee.
    The hackers working under the name of Guccifer used social media tools to invite individual reporters to request specific caches of documents handing them out the way political operatives distribute scoops.
    But if the goal of president Vladimir Putin was to make American democracy a less attractive model to his own citizens and to neighbors then entangling congressional races in accusations of leaks and subterfuge was a step in the right direction.
    The intrusions in House races in states including Pennsylvania New Hampshire Ohio Illinois New Mexico and North Carolina can be traced to tens of thousands of pages of documents taken from the which shares a Capitol Hill office building with the Democratic National Committee.
    The hackers working under the name of Guccifer used social media tools to invite individual reporters to request specific caches of documents handing them out the way political operatives distribute scoops.
    But if the goal of president Vladimir Putin was to make American democracy a less attractive model to his own citizens and to neighbors then entangling congressional races in accusations of leaks and subterfuge was a step in the right direction.
    The intrusions in House races in states including Pennsylvania New Hampshire Ohio Illinois New Mexico and North Carolina can be traced to tens of thousands of pages of documents taken from the which shares a Capitol Hill office building with the Democratic National Committee.
    The hackers working under the name of Guccifer used social media tools to invite individual reporters to request specific caches of documents handing them out the way political operatives distribute scoops.
PRE-MARKET | December 13, 2016 | $GOOG, $BA, $PAY, $XOM, $DIA, $SPX, $VRX, #TRUMPRALLY

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6. BWLD:$BWLD downgraded to Market Perform at BMO Capital
15. KO:$KO downgraded to Hold at Deutsche Bank

 

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1. Mr. Exxon Goes to Washington (Maybe)

How CEO Rex Tillerson could affect energy and policy as Secretary of State.

2. Pfizer joins rush to cancer vaccine R&D, backing startup Ignite | FiercePharma

Cancer vaccines are making a comeback, and Pfizer has signed on with a startup in the field. The drug giant will back Ignite Immunotherapy’s efforts to combine its own candidates with checkpoint inhibitors for a one-two punch against the disease.

3. Deals With Vladimir Putin Helped Fuel Rise of Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson

Rex Tillerson was propelled to the top of Exxon Mobil Corp. partly by negotiating a deal with Vladimir Putin, part of a relationship that is both Mr. Tillerson’s biggest claim to the secretary of state nomination and potentially the biggest concern about him.

4. Valeant Pharmaceuticals loses three top executives

By

5. Apple’s iOS 10.2 TV update without Netflix could hint at its own ambitions in the streaming space

Apple has not launched its own TV streaming service yet, but analysts said the new app could pave the way for one.

6. Actinium Pharmaceuticals Announces Submission of EU Orphan Designation Application for Actimab-A

-Actimab-A has received Orphan Drug Designation in the U.S.. -Orphan Designation in the EU can result in regulatory assistance, reduced fees and 10 years of market exclusivity. NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2016– …

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    In the past year alone under Barra leadership the auto giant acquired Cruise Automation invested million in the company Lyft and launched GM first vehicle dubbed the Bolt.
    But one of the reasons we are in downtown San Francisco is because there not many other places that are as dynamic dense and congested so that we can make sure that the car has in its solution set all the different experiences and can handle almost an infinite number of situations.
    Barra said autonomous vehicles would also have the potential to greatly reduce traffic in urban areas because they were always connected and sensing their environment helping them to choose the most efficient route.
    But what I imagine the thought bubble in their head read Fuckfuckfuck now I have to become a reality show star in a new episode of Apprentice Nerd Edition bowing and scraping to that luddite Trump who will probably simultaneously berate us in person and bully us on Twitter later with a lot of poop emoticons.
    even though tech companies who mostly backed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton stand on the exact other side of a myriad of key issues from Trump including immigration reform trade encryption and a depressing range of social concerns.
    While one would hope for a substantive discussion pretty clear to me that this is just going to be that geek reality show episode in which real billionaires walk the gantlet of prostration at Trump Tower and get exactly nothing for handing over their dignity so easily.
    Google and the Cuban government signed a deal Monday allowing the internet giant to provide faster access to its data by installing servers on the island that will store much of the company most popular content.
    Home connections remain illegal for most Cubans and the government charges the equivalent of a month average salary for hours of access to public WiFi spots with speeds frequently too slow to download files or watch streaming video.
    The and Cuba have struck a series of bilateral deals on issues ranging from environmental protection to direct mail since the declaration of detente on but business ties have failed to keep pace.
    In the past year alone under Barra leadership the auto giant acquired Cruise Automation invested million in the company Lyft and launched GM first vehicle dubbed the Bolt.
    But one of the reasons we are in downtown San Francisco is because there not many other places that are as dynamic dense and congested so that we can make sure that the car has in its solution set all the different experiences and can handle almost an infinite number of situations.
    Barra said autonomous vehicles would also have the potential to greatly reduce traffic in urban areas because they were always connected and sensing their environment helping them to choose the most efficient route.
    Kara Swisher wrote a solid and popular post lamenting what will be the painful visit of our fellow tech citizens to the evil Trump Tower this week.
    While one would hope for a substantive discussion pretty clear to me that this is just going to be that geek reality show episode in which real billionaires walk the gantlet of prostration at Trump Tower and get exactly nothing for handing over their dignity so easily.
    Think Tim Cook a gay CEO of a company already attacked by Trump built on values and formerly led by a founder with Syrian roots is looking forward to this shindig.
    Companies spend an enormous sum of money on sales automation and relationship management software a category that could reach billion in revenue by according to a forecast by Cowen and Co.
    Many sales managers are for ways to get more out of that investment which in turn has inspired a wave of startups selling software to automate some of these administrative tasks.
    Tact a startup founded by former Salesforcecrm Senior Vice President Chuck Ganapathi is tapping that ethos with a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to help salespeople interact with their software via voice commands.
    But what I imagine the thought bubble in their head read Fuckfuckfuck now I have to become a reality show star in a new episode of Apprentice Nerd Edition bowing and scraping to that luddite Trump who will probably simultaneously berate us in person and bully us on Twitter later with a lot of poop emoticons.
    even though tech companies who mostly backed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton stand on the exact other side of a myriad of key issues from Trump including immigration reform trade encryption and a depressing range of social concerns.
    While one would hope for a substantive discussion pretty clear to me that this is just going to be that geek reality show episode in which real billionaires walk the gantlet of prostration at Trump Tower and get exactly nothing for handing over their dignity so easily.
    That means that smaller new online businesses that afford to pay to reach users at faster speeds will be relegated to the slow lane making it difficult to compete with already established sites especially if websites that are already extremely profitable like Facebook get to set the price.
    Without Rosenworcel the FCC will be staffed by four commissioners split on party lines but that should change in January when Trump takes office and is supposed to appoint a new chairman of the agency.
    Trump named his pick for FCC chief yet but the two advisers the appointed for his transition team Jeff Eisenach and Mark Jamison are both fierce opponents of network neutrality and are expected to guide the agency in a direction that will be more favorable to internet providers than to Silicon Valley companies.
    On Friday CERT issued an advisory warning about the flaw and advising customers to discontinue use of the impacted Nighthawk routers until they can be properly patched.
    convincing a user to visit a specially crafted web site a remote unauthenticated attacker may execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on affected routers.
    In a statement a representative for Netgear said that the company strives to earn and maintain the trust of its users and they actively working to provide solution for our customers

 

PRE-MARKET | December 08, 2016 | #ECB, $LULU, $AMD, $JNPR, $COST, $GLW, $GOOG, $MSFT, $QCOM

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1. AMD:BAC “We double-upgrade $AMD to Buy from Underperform, raise estimate well above consensus,and assign a $12 PO bull-case $15+, bear-case $7.”

 

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8. BABA:$BABA Morgan Stanley Assumes Alibaba Group with Overweight, $130 PT

 

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1. zach on Twitter

“$PBYI neratinib diarrhea under various arms of CONTROL open-label prophylaxis study…yikes”

2. Facebook’s Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest

In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook’s CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.

3. Peter Spiegel on Twitter

“Hmmm. Is that a tapir or not? #ECB”

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“#ECB ‘#TAPERING’ in one chart!”

5. ECB to scale back asset buys as it extends to end-2017

The European Central Bank caught financial markets off-guard on Thursday by announcing it would trim asset buys from April next year, even as it reserved the right to increase purchases again if the euro zone’s recovery faltered.

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    With Project Evo Microsoft and Intel will deliver ways for devices to light up with the latest in advanced security artificial intelligence and Cortana mixed reality and gaming.
    Joining those partners the leading hardware developer for HMDs will bring the Windows experience to their device in the first half of reaching more than million monthly active customers in China.
    We look forward to seeing these new devices with integrated cellular connectivity and the great experiences people love like touch pen and Windows Hello in market as early as next year.
    This riddle appeared in in SIDtoday the internal newsletter of the Signals Intelligence Directorate or SID and it was classified It announced the emergence of a new field of espionage that had not yet been explored the interception of data from phone calls made on board civil aircraft.
    The spoils of war observed phone uses are proudly listed in the GCHQ presentation voice communication data SMS Webmail Webchat social networks Facebook Twitter etc.
    GCHQ notes that the Russian company Aeroflot has set up a system of specific connections for GSM phones on its aircraft for legal intercept as the agency remarks in a technical memo.
    Rating is available when the video has been rented.
    See a preview of Windows Enterprise edition running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor complete with and UWP apps such as Adobe PhotoShop Microsoft Office and popular Windows games and videos.
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    So if you juggle identical phones with work and personal numbers you can stop paying for two devices two plans and two times the network access fees a practice that costs US wireless customers an extra BILLION every year.
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    Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
    Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.
    You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.
    Researchers say among the reasons Apple has failed to keep pace is its unwillingness to allow its AI engineers to publish scientific papers stymieing its ability to feed off wider advances in the field.
    You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter That policy has now changed Russ Salakhutdinov an Apple director of AI research said Monday at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona according to Twitter posts from those present.
    To compensate for the hiring difficulties Apple has bought a series of AI startups spending million on Turi earlier this year to add to half a dozen other acquisitions.
    Supplied to Quartz Apple unsurprisingly is working on a lot of the same problems as other companies that are exploring machine learning recognizing and processing images predicting user behavior and events in the physical world modeling language for use in personal assistants and trying to understand how to deal with uncertainty when an algorithm make a decision.
    However two attendees of the presentation who asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the content both stressed that the company made no mention of cars or automotive ambitions.
    By slimming down the neural network iPhones and iPads can identify faces and locations in photos or understand changes in a heart rate without needing to rely on remote servers.
    Apple also streamed Chance The Rapper Coloring Book which made history on Tuesday by becoming the first album to be nominated for the Grammys without being available in shops or download stores.
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    Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
    Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.
    You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.