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$UNVR Univar Announces Pricing of Sale of 12.5M Shares of Common Stock by Selling Stockholders – PRN
$UNVR Univar Announces Pricing of Sale of 12.5M Shares of Common Stock by Selling Stockholders – PRN12. MIK: $MIK Michaels Cos. to Offer 12M Shares for Holders; Co. to Buyback 2M from Underwriter – SI
$MIK Michaels Cos. to Offer 12M Shares for Holders; Co. to Buyback 2M from Underwriter – SI15. NSA: $NSA National Storage Affiliates Trust Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Shares – BW
$NSA National Storage Affiliates Trust Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Shares – BW17. HBHC: $HBHC Hancock Holding Co – commenced an underwritten public offering of 5M shares _ Reuters
$HBHC Hancock Holding Co – commenced an underwritten public offering of 5M shares _ Reuters18. ARI: $ARI Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – BW
$ARI Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – BW21. PRTO: $PRTO Proteon Therapeutics’ stock plummets after failed trial of kidney disease treatment – MW
$PRTO Proteon Therapeutics’ stock plummets after failed trial of kidney disease treatment – MW
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6. BWLD:$BWLD downgraded to Market Perform at BMO Capital
7. CBS, VIA, VIAB:Viacom downgraded after CBS deal falls through
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Technology News
- 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.
2. In which @sacca says Silicon Valley types are “being used to legitimise a fascist” by meeting Trump
- 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
