$DE Deere Raises Profit Forecast as It Sees Signs of Recovery

1. LMIA: $LMIA LMI Aerospace Agrees to be Acquired by Sonaca Group for $14/Share – SI

2. RGSE:  $RGSE RGS Energy Provides Business Update – SI

3. TRUE:  $TRUE TrueCar Inc. Is Rising On Better Than Expected Q4 Earnings – RTT

4. KHC, UL:  $UL Kraft Heinz $KHC Now in Talks to Acquire Only Part of Unilever UN – Sources – Street Insider

5. COHU:  $COHU Cohu beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

6. ANET:  $ANET Arista Networks Stock Soars After Hours On Earnings, Sales Beat – IBD

7. KHC, UL, UN:  $UL Kraft Heinz $KHC Makes Approach to Unilever $UN on Possible Merger – BBG

8. AIRG:  $AIRG Airgain beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

9. CYTK:  $CYTK Cytokinetics beats 4Q profit forecasts – AP

10. CGNX:  $CGNX Cognex Reports Record Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year – BW

11. DE:  $DE Deere Raises Profit Forecast as It Sees Signs of Recovery – BBG

12. WBMD:  $WBMD WebMD Puts Itself Up for Sale – TheStreet

13. AZN:  $AZN AstraZeneca breast cancer drug trial positive – MW

14. FLR:  $FLR Fluor Wins Contract For Woodfibre LNG Project In Canada – Nasdaq

15. FLR:  $FLR Fluor Corp. Misses Q4 EPS by 29c; Maintains Outlook – SI

16. ZPIN:  $ZPIN Zhaopin Announces Receipt of Preliminary Non-Binding Proposal from Consortium – SI

17. CELG:  $CELG Celgene Phase III SUNBEAM Trial Met Primary Endpoint in MS – SI

18. ABBV: $ABBV AbbVie Announces $5 Billion Increase to Stock Repurchase Program – PRN

19. PODD: $PODD Insulet Presents Strong Omnipod® Horizon™ Hybrid Closed-Loop Study Results at ATTD in Paris

20. CREE: $CREE Cree and Infineon call off Wolfspeed deal – MW

21. AAPL: $AAPL Apple to start India manufacturing in coming months with iPhone SE: Report – CNBC

22. UNH:  $UNH Scheme Tied to UnitedHealth Overbilled Medicare for Years, Suit Says – NYT

23. BKD, BX, VTR:  $BKD Ventas $VTR In Talks to Buy Part or All of Brookdale Senior Living – WSJ

24. LII:  $LII Lennox CFO Cites Minor Back Injury as Reason for Barclay Conference Withdrawal – Bloomberg

25. VFC:  $VFC V.F. Corp. Reports In-line Q4 Earnings, Sales Lag – Zacks

26. PI:  $PI Impinj Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results – GN

27. SAGE:  $SAGE Sage Therapeutics Not in M&A Discussions: STATEMENT – BW

28. GIS:  $GIS General Mills shares drop after it lowers sales outlook – MW

29. MCHX:  $MCHX Marchex Q4 revenue $28.4 million versus $34.9 million – Reuters

30. FNSR:  $FNSR Finisar to Announce Fiscal 3Q 2017 Financial Results

31. NUS:  $NUS Nu Skin shares skid as revenue shrinks – MW

32. XTLB:  $XTLB XTL Biopharmaceuticals Announces $2.5 Million Registered Direct Offering – PRN

1. CRM, WDAY:Workday upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Jaffray $WDAY $CRM

2. WDAY:$WDAY Piper upgrades this AM following y’day positive notes by Wedbush & William Blair “Our checks came back the strongest in recent memory”

1. ORC:Maxim Group Downgrades Orchid Island Capital to Hold $ORC

2. TSM:As Apple soars, its supplier TSMC loses steam; Goldman downgrades shares to neutral. $TSM 2…

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1. UL:Mondelez left out of the food party. #Kraft bid for @Unilever sends $KHC & $UL soaring, but $MNDLZ is slumping 5%

2. DE:Deere Reports Q1 EPS $0.61 vs $0.54 Est., Sales $5.625B vs $4.67B Est. $DE

3. VFC:$VFC miss and lowers outlook, bread and butter North Face biz continues to weaken , -8%

4. KHC:@jimcramer $KHC/Unilever deal was proposed. Rejected.

5. CELG:$CELG +VE Results from P3 SUNBEAM Trial of Oral Ozanimod in Patients with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

6. MCO:$MCO reported earnings of $1.23, consensus was $1.12, Earnings Whisper was $1.15 via @eWhispers #whisperbeat

7. TSRO:RBC Just out raising PT 0n $TSRO to 202 from 142

8. ABBV:$ABBV Announces $5 Billion Increase to Stock Repurchase Program

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1. Kraft Makes $143 Billion Merger Bid for Unilever

2. Deere Raises Profit Forecast as It Sees Signs of Recovery

3. Chinese foreign minister meets U.S. Secretary of State in Germany

4. Biotech Stock Mailbag: Bulls love a distracted Trump, Protalix, Acadia, Sarepta

5. Celgene Announces Positive Results from Phase III SUNBEAM Trial of Oral Ozanimod in Patients with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis | Business Wire

6. Daiichi Sankyo and ArQule Announce the Completion of the METIV-HCC Phase 3 Study of Tivantinib in Second-Line Treatment of MET-Overexpressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma

1. really smart @jacobtwop piece about the crisis of masculinity at the heart of, uh, a huge portion of the internet

The fact that this was framed as a investigation and major story for the Journal should be a reminder of both the outsize paychecks digital video personalities draw Forbes estimated earnings at million in making him the star on YouTube and the vast devoted fanbases that enable them.

Rewriting Felix history to make him a monster pulled along by the gravity of recent cautionary tales like those of Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer is investigative laziness that obscures a much more important fact that the boys and men who group together online for the explicit proliferation of hate speech and misogyny will almost inevitably keep pushing the line until they end up in a truly dark place.

Because relationship to his following like that of Milo to his own fans is both a reciprocal system of validation and a male personality cult we diagnose it as anything out of the ordinary We take it at face value because are We can demonize the ones who go too far as an idea continue to ignore them in reality and then act shocked when their need for attention finally intersects with their ability to make themselves heard.

2. How YouTube’s biggest star took a bizarre career turn, and what it tells us about the politics of social platforms

But Monday night The Wall Street Journal reported that the Maker Studios a longtime partner of would no longer have anything to do with him later YouTube announced that it was canceling a show developed with Kjellberg and removing his channel from its lucrative advertising program.

Continue reading the main story With more than a billion users YouTube has become not merely a platform but almost a kind of internet the host of a gigantic economy and a set of cultures governed by a new and novel sort of corporation sometimes at length and other times up close.

But it is in interest for the inner workings of its platform including recommendation algorithms the way it calculates advertising rates and the precise locations of its boundaries to remain at least somewhat secret to prevent creators from gaming the quirks at the expense of either user experience or its bottom line.

3. PewDiePie says The Wall Street Journal is out to get him in apology for Nazi jokes

PewDiePie apologized today for making jokes that he now says too and which led to him losing major deals with Disneyand YouTube.

sorry for the words that I used as I know they offended people and I admit that the joke itself went too far he says in a video titled Response that he uploaded to YouTube this afternoon.

Early in the video PewDiePie says his experience with media outlets has led him to believe that they misrepresent people for their own personal He later calls the Journal article on him.

4. Probably the most interesting bit of Zuck’s new letter

A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad to continue increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can create the greatest positive impact on the world.

It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.

5. With no IPO in sight, Uber is giving restless employees a way to cash out

With the exception of Snap and a few others technology companies are waiting much longer to go public than in the past and the ample funding available from private investors at generous terms have made mergers a less attractive option.

When Emil Michael senior vice president of business takes the stage at a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday expect him to address a topic on the minds of many employees when exactly the company will go public.

In late Uber began offering employees restricted stock units instead of options which do require paying taxes upfront one of the people said.

6. Yow. PewDiePie has a long history of gross, thinly veiled racism. And now he’s a hero to Nazis.

After The Wall Street Journal reported on his pattern of using jokes in his videos Maker Studios cut ties with the internet celeb and YouTube canceled the second season of his streaming reality show.

on the internet you tell if something was intended as a joke or a sincere Offensive further confuses the mix While important to call out things like racism sexism ableism and homophobia doing so plays into hands.

In December he announced plans to delete his YouTube channel once it reached million subscribers because the platform had changed its homepage a move that meant his viewers saw fewer videos and less often.

7. With my #java and #groovylang hats on, I like to see that #tensorflow 1.0 has an experimental Java API 🙂

8. Lenovo’s profit falls short as HP, Dell challenge its global lead in PCs

Three years after Lenovo closed its billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility the smartphone business remains well behind Vivo Oppo and Huawei in terms of market share.

In it appointed human resources director Gina Qiao to lead smartphone sales in China the third executive in the position since the Motorola takeover.

Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing said he remained confident the division will achieve by the second half of the next fiscal year ending March.

9. Zuck, supportive, safe & inclusive communities start with a respect for privacy. 1 privacy mention in 5,800 words

A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad to continue increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can create the greatest positive impact on the world.

It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.

10. pewdiepie’s response to the wsj stuff is built around an extremely familiar conception of what media is/does:

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