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1. COLB, PCBK: $PCBK Columbia Banking $COLB & Pacific Continental Enter Into Definitive Agreement To Merge – BZ

2. PXLW:  $PXLW shares jump after company says it expects to swing to a profit in Q4

3. ILMN:  $ILMN is teaming up with Watson to analyze your genes via @BI_Science

4. VRX:  $VRX Valeant to Sell Skin-Care Brands to L’Oréal – WSJ

5. VRX:  $VRX Valeant Pharma Agrees to Sell Dendreon To Sanpower Group For ~$820M – SI

6. VRX:  $VRX Sends Strong Message With Dendreon Divestment via @BNLFinance

7. CUDA:  $CUDA Barracuda Networks shares rally after earnings beat – MW

8. CMG:  $CMG Chipotle shares up more than 4% as sales improve, investors shrug off light earnings forecast

9. KITE:  $KITE Kite Pharma partners with Japan’s Daiichi for cancer therapy – Reuters

10. BABA:  $BABA Alibaba leads $2.55 billon bid for Chinese retailer Intime – CNBC

11. VZ, YHOO:  $YHOO to be named Altaba, Mayer to leave board after $VZ deal via @Reuters

12. PTCT:  $PTCT PTC Therapeutics says EU ratifies positive CHMP opinion for renewal of Translarna – Reuters

13. GIL: . $GIL Gildan Activewear wins auction buy bankrupt American Apparel’s brand, assets – MW

14. IEP: $IEP Icahn Enterprises L.P. Announces Rights Offering – AP

15. GILD: $GILD Gildan Activewear wins auction buy bankrupt American Apparel’s brand, assets – MW

16. VOXX: $VOXX VOXX International Corporation Profit Drops 25% In Q3 – Nasdaq

17. FLDM: $FLDM Fluidigm Expects 19 Percent Revenue Decline in Q4 – GenoneWeb

18. GOOG, MBLY: $GOOG Alphabet’s Waymo May Sell Autonomous Hardware to Other Companies – BBG

19. APOL: $APOL Apollo Education Group Misses Q1 EPS by 5c – SI

20. SHLM: $SHLM A. Schulman Inc. Profit Declines 3% In Q1 – Nasdaq

21. ABMD: $ABMD Abiomed Prelim Rev $114.7M, Vs Cons of $113.1M; Sees FY17 Revs of $435-$445M Vs Cons of $444.7M

22. CRAY:  $CRAY Cray Inc. Is Heading Lower After Preliminary 2016 Report – RTT

23. RCII:  $RCII Rent-A-Center CEO departs, founder returns to helm on interim basis – MW

24. SCVL:  $SCVL Shoe Carnival Trims FY16 EPS Guidance – SI

25. HALO:  $HALO Halozyme Therapeutics Sees FY17 Rev. of $115M-$130M – SI

26. SHOO:  $SHOO Steve Madden reports Q4 sales $336.4M versus I/B/E/S view $348.5M – Reuters

27. FRSH:  $FRSH Papa Murphy’s Announces Preliminary Full Year 2016 and Fourth-Quarter 2016 Operating Results

28. CIO:  $CIO City Office REIT, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – PRN

29. BOOT:  $BOOT Boot Barn Holdings Preliminary Q3 Sales of $199M, EPS $0.39 Vs. Cons of $0.43 – SI

30. ATW:  $ATW Atwood Oceanics, Inc. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – GN

31. WDFC:  $WDFC WD-40 misses 1Q profit forecasts – AP

32. WMB, WPZ:  $WMB Williams, Williams Partners $WPZ Reset Payouts as Part of Financial Repositioning – SI

33. WMB:  $WMB Williams Prices 65M Shares Offering at $29 – SI

34. ASNA:  $ASNA Sees Q2 EPS loss of vs |

35. HGG:  $HGG hhgregg Announces Preliminary Q3 Sales Results, Shares Fall – Zacks

36. JNJ: $JNJ to report average increases in list prices for U.S. drugs via @WSJ

1. AYI:CLSA Upgrades Acuity Brands $AYI to Buy

2. AZZ:Stifel Nicolaus Upgrades AZZ Inc. to Hold $AZZ

3. BIDU:#Baidu upgraded to buy from hold at Stifel. Price target raised 10% to $220. $BIDU +0.66% at 178.33 premarket…

4. CUDA:Barracuda Networks upgraded to neutral from underperform at DA Davidson. Price target $25. $CUDA +9.38% at 26.00 p…

5. EQR:Janney Montgomery Scott Upgrades Equity Residential $EQR to Neutral

6. GS, PGR:Goldman Sachs Upgrades Progressive to Hold $PGR $GS

7. KMT:KeyBanc Upgrades Kennametal to Buy $KMT

8. PGR:Goldman Sachs Upgrades Progressive Corp. $PGR to Neutral

9. RHI:Robert Half was Upgraded to a Hold Rating at Barclays $RHI

10. TIME:UPDATE: Wells Fargo Upgrades Time Inc. $TIME to Outperform; Says Meredith Deal Makes Sense

11. TWLO:Canaccord Genuity upgrades Twilio to Buy

1. AMAG:$AMAG downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Janney

2. CF:UPDATE: UBS Downgrades CF Industries $CF to Neutral

3. DISCA:Credit Suisse Downgrades Discovery Communications $DISCA to Neutral

4. GPI, SAH:CL King downgrades Group 1, Sonic

5. MCO:Barclays Downgrades Moody’s Corp. to Hold $MCO

6. NLSN:Barclays Downgrades Nielsen Holdings to Hold $NLSN

7. WMB:Jefferies Downgrades Williams Companies $WMB to Hold

1. ILMN:$ILMN ceo on cnbc now

2. VRX:$VRX Announces Results Of Second Phase 3 Study For Psoriasis Treatment IDP-118

3. GS:Citi cuts Goldman Sachs to sell: $GS

4. XON:$ZIOP $XON R&D Agreement with the NCI Utilizing Sleeping Beauty System to Generate T cells Targeting Neoantigens

5. ZIOP:$ZIOP NCI CRADA using Sleeping Beauty with TCRs targeting neoantigens.

6. SRPT:$SRPT Enters into License Agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for Galgt2 Gene Therapy Program

7. CUDA:Barracuda Networks [CUDA] Set to Spike 8.2% After Upbeat Results $cuda

1. Valeant to Sell $2.1 Billion in Assets to Pay Down Debt

2. Johnson & Johnson to Report Average Increases in List Prices for U.S. Drugs

3. Twilio upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canaccord

4. ZIOPHARM and Intrexon Announce Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the National Cancer Institute Utilizing Sleeping Beauty System to Generate T cells Targeting Neoantigens (NASDAQ:ZIOP)

5. Canadian apparel maker Gildan wins auction to buy American Apparel

6. Valeant to Sell Skin-Care Brands to L’Oréal

1. We’re thrilled to announce plans to add @trello to our product family! More at

Trello will become an important part of the Atlassian portfolio offering a fun new way for teams to organize the often messy range of information that feeds into great teamwork.

tools excel at work that benefits from a traceable and repeatable process whilst Confluence is great for teams creating and collaborating on documents and rich content.

Trello perfectly fills a gap between the structured workflows of JIRA and the collaboration of Confluence and will give teams the option to find the right Atlassian tool for the type of work they need to complete.

2. We’re proud to lead an investment in @resy to bring a better dining experience to the @airbnb community

ET Airbnb one of the most richly funded startups in the world is turning into an investor itself.

The San Francisco startup led a million funding round in app Resy Network which competes with the much larger OpenTable Airbnb will use services to expand beyond part of its plan to become a shop for travelers.

The funding which also includes.

3. Trello crossed 1 million users in ’16 on $10M in annualized revenue. That was worth $425M to Atlassian

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There is no greater honor than supporting growth and evolution as a human being.

4. Unmotivated naming of the year: Yahoo will become Altaba, “a combination of the words ‘alternate’ and ‘Alibaba’”

ET Yahoo said Monday it will whittle down its board after completing its deal with Verizon Communications and several longtime directors including Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and David Filo will step down as directors.

After the sale of its core internet business the company will change its name to Altaba from RemainCo Yahoo said in a regulatory filing.

remaining assets include stake in.

5. How Oculus became a messy $2 billion dispute that may drag Mark Zuckerberg into court

ZeniMax Media is trying to show that it did the heavy lifting to develop the software and hardware for the virtual reality goggles alleging a star employee recruited by Oculus purloined its intellectual property.

If ZeniMax is successful in a trial that began Monday with jury selection it would rewrite the story of how Facebook emerged at the forefront of the virtual reality boom with Microsoft Sony Alphabet Google and others all competing for a piece of a market forecast to exceed billion in sales in.

At the time it was crude prototype that lacked a head mount specific software integrated motion sensors and other critical features and capabilities needed to create a viable product according to lawsuit.

6. Wow @Trello was a side project for the @FogCreek team, now sold for $425M

In our conversation Simons also noted that he believes the cultures in both companies are very similar and that both share the same audacious goal to get to million monthly active users.

no surprise then that the press release specifically cites popularity with business teams in finance HR legal marketing and sales and notes that percent of Trello users work in functions.

Atlassian is scheduled to report its results on January and chances are we will hear a bit more about this transaction and how the company plans to integrate services then.

7. Talked to Apple’s Phil Schiller on iPhone’s 10th birthday. Wound up talking about conversational interface.

But it had to wait for the right moment when a telecom carrier was willing to cede unprecedented control to Apple allowing it to design a hardware and software package that would redefine the category on its own terms.

In this case Apple made an exception last week I sat down with its senior vp of world wide marketing Phil Schiller who joined the leadership team in April coincident with Steve return.

Yet Schiller pushed back when I suggested that the great moment came when Apple threw open the gates to developers and we learned that for every imaginable activity as well as some previously unimaginable ones there was app for.

8. Wow Trello gets acquired for a ton of $! Super tactile mobile UX of joy is what I love best about it. You?

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9. Fascinating that Trello, developed by the makers of FogBugz, will be owned by the makers of JIRA. Full circle!

Our small idea was to take the paradigm of a sticky note on a wall and turn it into a tool that allowed people to collaborate in real time.

We wanted Trello to be fluid and adaptable to a huge range of problems that all revolved around getting people on the same page.

been humbled and excited to see the millions of use cases for Trello around the world and we build the product each day proudly knowing helping teams do great things.

10. The zombie leftover of Yahoo post-Verizon sale now has a name, and it’s predictably weird: Altaba Inc.

inability to consummate the transaction in a timely manner or at all due to the inability to obtain or delays in obtaining approval of stockholders the necessary regulatory approvals or satisfaction of other conditions to the closing of the Sale Transaction existence or occurrence of any event change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Stock Purchase Agreement which in addition to other adverse consequences could result in the Company incurring substantial fees including in certain circumstances the payment of a termination fee to Verizon under the Stock Purchase Agreement that Verizon may assert or threaten to assert rights or claims with respect to the Stock Purchase Agreement as a result of facts relating to the security incidents disclosed on September and December and may seek to terminate the Stock Purchase Agreement or renegotiate the terms of the Sale Transaction on that basis adverse effects on relationships with its existing and potential advertisers suppliers customers vendors distributors landlords licensors licensees joint venture partners and other business partners implementation of the Sale Transaction will require significant time attention and resources of senior management and others within Yahoo potentially diverting their attention from the conduct of business related to ability to retain or recruit key talent fees expenses and charges related to or triggered by the Sale Transaction net proceeds that the Company will receive from Verizon is subject to uncertainties as a result of the purchase price adjustments in the Stock Purchase Agreement on the conduct of business including the ability to make certain acquisitions and divestitures enter into certain contracts and incur certain indebtedness and expenditures until the earlier of the completion of the Sale Transaction or the termination of the Stock Purchase Agreement adverse effects on business properties or operations caused by Yahoo implementing the Sale Transaction or foregoing opportunities that Yahoo might otherwise pursue absent the pending Sale Transaction initiation or outcome of any legal proceedings or regulatory proceedings that may be instituted against Yahoo and its directors officers relating to the Sale Transaction and the Closing the Company will be required to register and be regulated as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of which will result in among other things the Company having to comply with the regulations thereunder certain stockholders potentially being prohibited from holding or acquiring shares of the Company and the Company likely being removed from the Standard and Index and other indices which could have an adverse impact the share price following the Sale Transaction.

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