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1. CP, CSX: $CSX Canadian Pacific $CP CEO Hunter Harrison steps down early, targeting CSX takeover – MW

2. OCLR:  $OCLR Oclaro Surges 8%: Raises FYQ2 Outlook on 100G Strength – Barron’s

3. NVCR:  $NVCR Novocure’s Optune® Now Available at 500 Cancer Treatment Centers in the U.S. – BizWire

4. NFLX:  $NFLX Netflix adds a third more subscribers than expected – Reuters

5. NFLX:  $NFLX Netflix is about to be bigger overseas than it is in the U.S. – MW

6. CHKP:  $CHKP Israel’s Check Point Software fourth-quarter profit tops estimates – Reuters

7. PIP:  $PIP PharmAthene, Altimmune to Merge in All-Stock Transaction – SI

8. MBLY:  $MBLY Goldman Sachs Upgrades Mobileye N.V to Buy, $50 PT

9. TSLA:  $TSLA Morgan Stanley Upgrades Tesla Motors to Overweight, $305 PT

10. AVXL:  $AVXL Anavex awarded grant to fund clinical trial of Rett syndrome drug – MW

11. MAR:  $MAR GS Upgrades Marriott to Conviction Buy, Says Co Best Positioned In Lodging Universe, $102 PT

12. BBT: $BBT BB&T Takes Rate Hit as Revenue and Profit Rise – WSJ

13. DRYS: $DRYS DryShips Inc. Announces Reverse Stock Split – SI

14. PPG: $PPG PPG Industries Q4 Earnings Beat, Sales Miss Estimates – Zacks

15. LQ: $LQ La Quinta To Explore Split, Shares Up Nearly 4% – Fox Biz

16. BK: $BK Bank of New York Reports In-Line Q4 EPS – SI

17. PLXS: $PLXS Plexus Q1 Earnings Beat, Revenues Miss Estimates – Zacks

18. SLM: $SLM SLM Corp. Bottom Line Drops 20% In Q4 – Nasdaq

19. LMT: $LMT Pentagon, Lockheed near deal on $9 billion F-35 contract: Sources – Reuters

20. MJN: $MJN Nestle Doesn’t Need This Baby – BBG Gadfly

21. JNJ: $JNJ J&J Nears Actelion Takeover Despite Twists and Turns – BBG

22. UNP: $UNP Union Pacific Corp. Earnings Climb 2% In Q4 – Nasdq

23. KMI: $KMI Kinder Morgan Swings to Profit Though Top Line Declines – WSJ

24. KO:  $KO Wells Fargo Downgrades Coca-Cola to Market Perform, $42-44 PT

25. XOM:  $XOM UBS Downgrades ExxonMobil to Sell, $77 PT

26. RCL:  $RCL GS Downgrades Royal Caribbean to Sell, Says “We are the only Sell rating on the street”, $78 PT

27. AA:  $AA Alcoa Files to Offer Up to 36.3M Shares for Holders – SI

28. HRTX:  $HRTX Heron Therapeutics Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock – BW

29. CANF:  $CANF Can-Fite Biopharma reports $5 mln registered direct offering – Reuters

30. VNOM:  $VNOM Viper Energy Partners says commenced public offering of 7 mln units – Reuters

31. ZYNE:  $ZYNE Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

32. RCII:  $RCII Rent-A-Center shares tank on sales, profit warning – MW

33. AMDA:  $AMDA Amedica Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants – MarketWired

1. FNBC:First NBC Bank was Upgraded to a Hold Rating at FBR Capital $FNBC

2. HPQ:HP rises after UBS upgrade

3. MAR:$MAR GS Upgrades Marriott to Conviction Buy, Says Co Best Positioned In Lodging Universe, $102 PT

4. MBLY:$MBLY Goldman Sachs Upgrades Mobileye N.V to Buy, $50 PT

5. NOV:National-Oilwell was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at Societe Generale $NOV

6. TSLA:$TSLA Morgan Stanley Upgrades Tesla Motors to Overweight, $305 PT

1. AAPL:Apple downgraded to Negative from Mixed at OTR Global $AAPL

2. GNC, VISI:GNC, Vitamin Shoppe downgraded to sell at Goldman. $GNC $VISI #retail #stocks

3. GS, SFM:Sprouts Farmers was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Goldman Sachs $SFM $GS

4. KO:$KO Wells Fargo Downgrades Coca-Cola to Market Perform, $42-44 PT

5. RCL:$RCL GS Downgrades Royal Caribbean to Sell, Says “We are the only Sell rating on the street”, $78 PT

6. TESO:Cowen & Co. Downgrades Tesco Corp to Hold $TESO

7. TGT:#Target downgraded to sell from neutral at Goldman. Price target cut by $10 to $67. $TGT 1/19 close: 66.85 #retail…

8. XOM:$XOM UBS Downgrades ExxonMobil to Sell, $77 PT

1. CHKP:$CHKP reports FQ4 earnings of $1.46 EPS and $486.71M Revs –

2. WNS:$WNS reports FQ3 earnings of 49c EPS and $139.80M Revs –

3. BK:$BK reports FQ4 earnings of 77c EPS and $3.79B Revs –

4. PPG:$PPG reports FQ4 earnings of $1.19 EPS and $3.50B Revs –

5. MTG:$MTG reports FQ4 earnings of 28c EPS and $266.52M Revs –

6. KCG:$KCG reports FQ4 earnings of -16c EPS and $249.54M Revs –

7. JBHT:$JBHT reports FQ4 earnings of $1.05 EPS and $1.72B Revs –

8. UNP:$UNP reports FQ4 earnings of $1.39 EPS and $5.17B Revs –

9. HOMB:$HOMB reports FQ4 earnings of 33c EPS and $127.04M Revs –

10. GATX:$GATX reports FQ4 earnings of $1.14 EPS and $362.10M Revs –

1. TSLA:MS ups $TSLA to overweight, saying global elec vehicle penetration could hit 23% by 2030:

2. NFLX:$NFLX Analysts … 140 Evercore ISI 143 CS 144 FBR 145 Citi 160 Cantor Guggenheim Canaccord Mizuho 165 MS 165 Cowen…

3. DRYS:$DRYS 1-8 reverse Stock split!?

4. UNP:#BREAKING: Union Pacific $UNP Q4 Revenue, $5.17B vs. $5.13B expected

5. CSX:$CSX Feb 39 Calls trader bought yesterday for $.39 will go $5, “How do they know.” almost $1 million profits on $80,000 bet @optionhacker

6. CANF:$CANF $5M offering. 2.5M shares at $2/share

7. MS:LIVE NOW » Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman $MS @SaraEisen @WilfredFrost #Davos

8. JBHT:$JBHT reported earnings of $1.05, consensus was $1.00, Earnings Whisper was $1.02 via @eWhispers #whisperbeat

9. CHKP:$CHKP Israel’s Check Point Software fourth-quarter profit tops estimates – Reuters

1. Morgan Stanley Upgrades Tesla Motors (TSLA) to Overweight

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3. Apple (AAPL) PT Raised to $140 at BofA/Merrill Lynch; iPhone 8 Will be ‘Super-Long’ Cycle

4. Icahn Enterprises L.P. Announces Results Of Federal-Mogul Tender Offer

5. Donna Burton on Twitter

6. UBS Said to Mull Moving London Investment Bankers to Madrid

7. ECB Said to Lack Agreement on How to Buy Debt Below Deposit Rate

8. Goldman CEO says still unclear on Brexit relocation plans: Bloomberg

1. The censorship of app stores shows how dangerously centralized the internet has become. Read my @nytimes column, now

Blocking a website is like trying to stop lots of trucks from delivering a banned book it requires an infrastructure of technical tools things like and enterprising users can often find a way around it.

In the and with the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon a cadre of academic and military engineers set out to create a communications system that contained no single point of failure or control.

The internet is now no longer and Just about all of its economic value is instead connected to two very specific somewheres the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle the homes of Apple Amazon Google and Facebook the four monstrously large companies that own the central information platforms.

2. Big news for developers: We’re acquiring @Fabric from @Twitter! @crashlytics & other tools will part of @Firebase!

Facebook similarly shut down its Parse mobile development platform last year and its founder Ilya Sukhar today tweeted that he was jealous that it get sold to Google like Fabric.

If Twitter can reduce its headcount ditch superflous divisions and reinforce its core product and business it might have another shot at selling to someone with the resources to make it a financial success.

But at the end of as it sought to ramp up its advertising business in its own apps it suddenly restricted API access essentially murdering several tools that developers had spent years building to benefit.

3. This is a good read, with some personal news in it as well:

Drawing on connections to the Obama digital warriors and Silicon Valley companies Park tapped a very small group of great coders and developers to rebuild in weeks on the fly what million worth of contractors and government employees do.

Though it seems like an unlikely job to assign to Silicon Valley stars who want to make a positive difference the latter is a real fear cited by multiple people inside the Obama team whom I spoke to as a scenario that would kill the USDS.

Dickerson describes it as high school graduation and a massive layoff mixed with a funeral gone on for two On the Facebook feeds of politically appointed tech surgers you see photos of final handshakes with the president wearing uncharacteristically formal garb and are often with their families they have been ushered into the Oval Office for mutual thanks.

4. Yet another reason to keep the Web healthy and vital: Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier

In the and with the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon a cadre of academic and military engineers set out to create a communications system that contained no single point of failure or control.

is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere the activist John Perry Barlow argued in his manifesto A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace He predicted that because of the the governments would never be able to lasso the digital realm.

The internet is now no longer and Just about all of its economic value is instead connected to two very specific somewheres the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle the homes of Apple Amazon Google and Facebook the four monstrously large companies that own the central information platforms.

5. EARNINGS: Netflix Q4 EPS $0.15 vs. $0.13 Est.; Q4 Revs. $2.48B vs. $2.47B Est. • $NFLX:

Analysts expected Netflix to report earnings of cents a share on billion in revenue according to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates.

While the stock rallied ahead of earnings Netflix delivered said Barton Crockett senior research analyst at FBR Capital Markets.

The streaming giant said its originals like Marvel Luke Cage The Crown and Black Mirror continue to generate excitement and excellent viewing all across the world.

6. Netflix earned 15 cents per share in Q4, beating analyst predictions for 13 cents per share

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7. Netflix hits 93.8 million subscribers 10 years after launching streaming

Today marks the tenth anniversary since launching its streaming service Netflix notes in its earnings press release.

DVDs the original product now represent a small fraction of the business.

In all Netflix has added millionnew international subscribers since when it launched in countries including India and Russia with varied often super limited catalogs of shows and movies.

8. Less than two years ago, Fabric was the centerpiece of Twitter’s pitch to developers:

Crashlytic s Stability Analytics For Apps MoPub Revenue Ads Twitter Kit Distribution Content Digits Identity.

Crashlytics which Twitter bought last year is a system that provides reporting on happening within apps from user interactions to crashes.

But it also understands that it can extend its content its sharing infrastructure and its ad platform to effectively reach a larger audience especially in the hot mobile space.

9. Why am I committed to the open Web? Many reasons, but here is a reminder:

In the and with the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon a cadre of academic and military engineers set out to create a communications system that contained no single point of failure or control.

is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere the activist John Perry Barlow argued in his manifesto A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace He predicted that because of the the governments would never be able to lasso the digital realm.

The internet is now no longer and Just about all of its economic value is instead connected to two very specific somewheres the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle the homes of Apple Amazon Google and Facebook the four monstrously large companies that own the central information platforms.

10. Nearly 80 rights groups say Facebook’s content policies are applied unevenly, amount to “racially biased censorship”

WASHINGTON Nearly rights groups on Wednesday accused Facebook of racially biased censorship and failing to be more transparent about its removal policies and cooperation with law enforcement adding to criticism the company has faced in recent months over its management of content on its network of billion users.

Facebook has been persistently criticized in the past year over how it polices everything from harassment and extremist propaganda to gun sales and news hoaxes on its enormous platform a multifaceted challenge the company has often responded to with tweaks of its existing terms of service and community standards.

Racial justice activists routinely have content that discusses racism or protests removed they said while harassment and threats targeting users on the basis of race religion and sexual orientation are thriving on Facebook.