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1. HTBX: $HTBX Heat Biologics Says it Met Efficacy Endpoint in Phase 1b Lung Cancer Trial – SI

2. MBLY:  $MBLY Mobileye to be bought by Intel in a $15.3 billion deal – MW

3. FATE:  $FATE Fate Therapeutics: FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug Application for FATE-NK100 – GN

4. ADAP:  $ADAP Adaptimmune Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results – GN

5. KOPN:  $KOPN Kopin Provides Business Update and Fourth Quarter, Fiscal 2016 Operating Results – BW

6. CEMP:  $CEMP Cempra Retains Morgan Stanley to Lead Review of Strategic Business Options – GN

7. CARA:  $CARA Cara Therapeutics: Uremic Pruritus Data Still Expected by End of the Month – HC Wainwright

8. HLF:  $HLF Icahn Buys 372K Herbalife Shares – SI

9. HSBC:  $HSBC HSBC Overhauls Top Management, Names Tucker as Chairman – BBG

10. XON:  $XON Intrexon Accelerates Strategic Review of Structural Options Related to Health Assets – SI

11. JCI: $JCI Johnson Controls explores sale of Scott Safety – sources – Reuters

12. AGIO, CELG:  $AGIO Agios eligible for up to $169M in milestones on selection of new cancer candidate w Celgene $CELG

13. TD:  $TD Canada’s Toronto-Dominion Bank defends business practices after media report – Reuters Canada

14. ARLZ:  $ARLZ Aralez Pharmaceuticals reports Q4 loss per share $0.48 – Reuters

1. ACOR:Acorda Therapeutics upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Janney Capital $ACOR

2. DRYS, SALT:$SALT upgraded to Outperform at Credit Suisse $DRYS may be dragged along

3. FNSR:Finisar upgraded to Strong Buy at Raymond James

4. MRVL:Marvell Technology Group upgraded to Buy at Needham & Company

1. AIG:Deutsche Bank Downgrades American International Group $AIG to Sell

2. BA:Boeing dips after Morgan Stanley downgrade

3. BA, MS:Boeing was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Morgan Stanley $BA $MS

4. TD:Downgrades come for TD Bank following sales practices report

1. TACO:$TACO reports FQ4 earnings of 20c EPS and $150.24M Revs –

2. TSQ:$TSQ reports FQ4 earnings of 19c EPS and $119.52M Revs –

3. ADAP:$ADAP reports FQ2 earnings of -22c EPS and $8.54M Revs –

1. INTC:$INTC SAID TO BUY $MBLY FOR $14B-$15B, #HAARETZ @MorningsMaria @MariaBartiromo @FBNlive Join Me As I Join Maria To Discuss #SXSW #Merger Mon

2. MBLY:Intel $INTC said to have acquired Mobileye $MBLY – TheMarker

3. DSW:$DSW Stock Has a Lot to Prove on Tuesday

1. Intel to buy Mobileye for $14-$15 billion: Israeli media report

2. Intel to Buy Mobileye for $15.3 Billion

3. Starbucks Should Continue To Outperform (NASDAQ:SBUX)

4. M&T Bank Should Focus on the Future

5. Intel Kickstarts Autonomous Engine, To Buy Mobileye For $15 Billion (NYSE:MBLY)

6. Press Release | Investors | Agios

7. Heat Biologics Meets Efficacy Endpoint in its Phase 1b Lung Cancer Trial to Progress to Phase 2

1. Wow, Uber is TERRIFIED of a union

Updated March.

ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.

He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.

2. The encryption in Confide looks genuinely bad. Don’t use it, people. What’s the matter with you.

A pair of damning advisories independently published Wednesday raise serious questions about the security assurances of Confide a messaging app that billed as providing battle tested military grade encryption and is reportedly being used by individuals inside the US government.

One of the bulletins published by security firm Quarkslab warned that current versions of those available for Macs PCs iPhones Android devices and Apple provide true encryption at all at least as that term is commonly defined.

Our security team is continuously monitoring our systems to protect our users integrity and we were able to detect anomalous behavior and remediate many of the issues during IOActive testing in real time.

3. Breaking: The SEC just handed Bitcoin a huge setback

In an order today the commission found that the proposed fund was too susceptible to fraud due to the unregulated nature of Bitcoin.

Unfortunately for speculators the commission ultimately concluded that the price of Bitcoin is still too vulnerable to manipulation for it to be certified.

markets related to the underlying asset provide a deterrent to manipulation the commission wrote in its analysis.

4. In Seattle, Uber’s resisting the Teamsters effort to unionize with podcasts and pizza parties

As Uber scrambles to address an internal scandal over employee allegations of systemic sexism facing another increasingly heated labor battle in Seattle a union drive led by the Teamsters.

While the Teamsters worked to win the city approvals necessary to represent drivers Uber ramped up a sprawling phalanx of efforts including everything from notifications and text messages to seminars collective bargaining pizza parties and podcasts.

For some Uber drivers drawn to the platform by its promise of a job with flexible hours union membership which comes with dues and a hierarchical power structure can be.

5. Uber says a union threatens the freedom of its drivers to work as much or as little as they wish

Updated March.

ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.

He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.

6. 1st article I’ve seen to start to get at how they do it: “Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal’s Hacking”

But the piggybacking on activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure disrupting bank operations stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.

At one point he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.

In the summer of the together with law enforcement agencies in over half a dozen countries carried out Operation Tovar a coordinated attack on criminal infrastructure that shut down his network and liberated computers infected with GameOver ZeuS.

7. Here’s the technical blog post from Quarkslab. In short: no key fingerprinting, bad encryption mechanism, blegh.

After authentication fixed identifiers are no longer used in all other types of queries made by the client the authorization field contains the token returned by the server.

The official website boasts the confidentiality provided by the product through three qualifiers encrypted ephemeral and screenshot protected.

Confide connections are made using the node request module which does not respect the system proxy settings under Windows.

8. NYT ties together more Russian crime + spying, suggests why GameOver Zeus creator Bogachev sanctioned in DNC hack.

He has been indicted in the United States accused of creating a sprawling network of computers to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts around the world targeting anyone with enough money worth stealing from a pest control company in North Carolina to a police department in Massachusetts to a Native American tribe in Washington.

But the piggybacking on activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure disrupting bank operations stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.

At one point he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.

9. Intel confirms $15 billion Mobileye deal. Says immediately accretive to earnings.

10. Bitcoin moves 18% closer to its true value. #bitcoin

price plummeted after regulators rejected a proposal by the Winklevoss twins for a publicly traded fund based on the digital currency dashing hopes that a investment vehicle would lead to wider interest in virtual money.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss the brothers famed for their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook vowed to continue working with the SEC to make their bitcoin vision a reality.

SEC is the gatekeeper against securities that are not properly market tested and could be a danger to investors said Mark Williams master lecturer at Boston University who focuses on risk management.