PRE-MARKET MOVERS
9. BABA, MAT: 
$MAT And $BABA Form Global Strategic Partnership
$MAT And $BABA Form Global Strategic Partnership10. VRX: $VRX Valeant, Pearson, Pershing Square, & Ackman Enter ‘Litigation Management Agreement’ – SI
$VRX Valeant, Pearson, Pershing Square, & Ackman Enter ‘Litigation Management Agreement’ – SI15. 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
22. BKD: 
$BKD Brookdale Shares Lower; Company Says Supply and Labor Pressures Will Continue – TheStreet
$BKD Brookdale Shares Lower; Company Says Supply and Labor Pressures Will Continue – TheStreet23. CYNO, HOLX: $HOLX to Acquire $CYNO for $1.65B via @Street_Insider
$HOLX to Acquire $CYNO for $1.65B via @Street_Insider29. 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 $17
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7. HOLX:$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
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Technology News
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
