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1. AMZN, PLUG: 
$PLUG Amazon $AMZN acquires right to buy stake in fuel cell maker Plug Power – Reuters
$PLUG Amazon $AMZN acquires right to buy stake in fuel cell maker Plug Power – Reuters5. CRBP: $CRBP Corbus Pharmaceuticals to Commence Single Phase 3 Study of Anabasum for Systemic Sclerosis
$CRBP Corbus Pharmaceuticals to Commence Single Phase 3 Study of Anabasum for Systemic Sclerosis10. RDHL: $RDHL RedHill Biopharma Announces Exclusive U.S. License from Entera Health for EnteraGam®
$RDHL RedHill Biopharma Announces Exclusive U.S. License from Entera Health for EnteraGam®26. SNAP: 
$SNAP Former Snapchat employee presses to unseal allegedly doctored usage statistics – LATimes
$SNAP Former Snapchat employee presses to unseal allegedly doctored usage statistics – LATimes28. MOMO: $MOMO Alibaba reports 5.78% stake in Momo Class A shares as of Mar 31 versus 14% percent on Mar 23
$MOMO Alibaba reports 5.78% stake in Momo Class A shares as of Mar 31 versus 14% percent on Mar 2332. AGRO: $AGRO Files S-8 – SI
$AGRO Files S-8 – SI34. UNIS: $UNIS Unilife Corp. Sinks After Warning About Dire Financial Condition, Executing WARN Notice – SI
$UNIS Unilife Corp. Sinks After Warning About Dire Financial Condition, Executing WARN Notice – SI
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2. NVS:$NVS downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Cowen. PT $77
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2. PLUG:$PLUG signs agreement with $AMZN fulfillment operations expected to generate $70M in 2017
3. MON:#BREAKING: Monsanto $MON Q2 Adjusted Earnings Per Share beats estimates, $3.19 vs. $2.79 expected
4. ADAP:$ADAP direct offering $42m at $6
5. CRBP:BREAKING: $CRBP announces “successful” end-of-phase 2 meeting with FDA. Are there any other kind?
6. WBA:$WBA Walgreens Boots Alliance Q2 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.36 -Revenue: $29.4B
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6. Factbox: Issues at stake in Trump-China summit in Florida
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Technology News
- Updated April.
- ET Visitors to the could be forced to provide cellphone contacts and passwords and answer questions about their ideology according to Trump administration officials measures that could intrude into the lives of millions of foreigners.
- The changes being considered could apply to visitors from closest allies as well as other nations and include subjecting more visa applicants to intense security reviews.
- The comments came after it emerged that attacker Khalid Masood had checked WhatsApp which offers encryption two minutes before ploughing an SUV through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge then leaping out and fatally stabbing an unarmed policeman standing guard at the gates of the Houses of Parliament.
- David Emm principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab noted that tech firms are unlikely to be happy about switching to a form of encryption as illustrated by the between Apple and the FBI last year.
- Sir Tim is also against weakening net neutrality opposes laws that would allow US ISP to broker sales in users data such as surfing history and in favour of combatting fake news.
- proprietary software company harvests personal information from a centralized government database using unaudited technology in a jurisdiction without a proper privacy or data protection law said Sunil Abraham director of the Centre for Internet and Society CIS an influential think tank.
- In November Ramanathan organized a daylong session in New Delhi that was attended by more than people lawyers activists social workers researchers academics and journalists to draw up a plan to spread awareness about privacy issues related to the Aadhaar program.
- In March parliament passed legislation giving federal agencies access to the entire Aadhaar database all names fingerprints irises mobile numbers addresses and photographs in the interest of In February the UIDAI was accused of trying to silence critics by filing a police complaint against a writer who wrote about the data security vulnerabilities.
- proprietary software company harvests personal information from a centralized government database using unaudited technology in a jurisdiction without a proper privacy or data protection law said Sunil Abraham director of the Centre for Internet and Society CIS an influential think tank.
- In November Ramanathan organized a daylong session in New Delhi that was attended by more than people lawyers activists social workers researchers academics and journalists to draw up a plan to spread awareness about privacy issues related to the Aadhaar program.
- In March parliament passed legislation giving federal agencies access to the entire Aadhaar database all names fingerprints irises mobile numbers addresses and photographs in the interest of In February the UIDAI was accused of trying to silence critics by filing a police complaint against a writer who wrote about the data security vulnerabilities.
- Four lawmakers have introduced legislation requiring law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant before searching phones belonging to US citizens and prohibiting them from barring entry to Americans who decline to share their passwords at the border.
- By requiring a warrant to search devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent personal photos and other data.
- Some law enforcement agencies have asserted broad authority to conduct searches of devices at the border the lawmakers contend in a way that circumvents the Fourth Amendment protections.
- Four lawmakers have introduced legislation requiring law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant before searching phones belonging to US citizens and prohibiting them from barring entry to Americans who decline to share their passwords at the border.
- By requiring a warrant to search devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent personal photos and other data.
- Some law enforcement agencies have asserted broad authority to conduct searches of devices at the border the lawmakers contend in a way that circumvents the Fourth Amendment protections.
- Sequoia Capital the biggest investor has in recent weeks held deal talks with potential buyers for the startup.
- Yik tale is a common one in Silicon Valley Investors race to pour money into the hot app of the moment only to watch adoption and usage drop shortly after the ink dries on the term sheet.
- Then the app becomes a punch line then forgotten then somebody snidely tweets yikyak or frontback or secret or yo or ello or meerkat or wuwu Social media is a business but even harder than making a hit is staying one.
- Sequoia Capital the biggest investor has in recent weeks held deal talks with potential buyers for the startup.
- Yik tale is a common one in Silicon Valley Investors race to pour money into the hot app of the moment only to watch adoption and usage drop shortly after the ink dries on the term sheet.
- Then the app becomes a punch line then forgotten then somebody snidely tweets yikyak or frontback or secret or yo or ello or meerkat or wuwu Social media is a business but even harder than making a hit is staying one.
- As part of the deal Spotify has agreed to allow new albums from Universal artists to be restricted to its premium service for up to two weeks moving forward confirming our report from last month.
- today Universal artists can choose to release new albums on premium only for two weeks offering subscribers an earlier chance to explore the complete creative work while the singles are available across Spotify for all our listeners to.
- The company wanted to IPO this year but given how long the negotiating process has taken plans have been pushed back to.
- Gelsinger packaged the deal as a win for customers saying they will benefit from greater choice with the ability to select from global data centres and experience faster performance.
- But safe to say that vCloud Air was not considered a top priority or worthwhile investment to Dell EMC VMware ultimate owner.
- Dell dropped the notion of running its own cloud some time ago faced with a world defined and dominated by Amazon Web Services and to a lesser extent Microsoft and Google.
