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1. AAXN, DGLY:  $DGLY Digital Ally’s stock rockets after ‘significant’ patent win against Axon $AAXN – MW

2. SNCR:  $SNCR Synchronoss Technologies up after company considers selling itself – MW

3. SPA:  $SPA Sparton Corporation Agrees to be Acquired by Ultra Electronics Holdings plc – BW

4. CLB, SEDG:  $CLB $SEDG KNX Index additions

5. CNAT, NVS:  $CNAT Conatus Pharmaceuticals announces effectiveness of Novartis $NVS license – GN

6. TSLA:  $TSLA Tesla wins giant battery contract in Australia, has 100-day deadline – Reuters

7. TSLA:  $TSLA Tesla April registrations drop in key California market – SI

8. AAPL, QCOM:  $QCOM Qualcomm Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Apple $AAPL – PR

9. ALXN:  $ALXN Alexion Pharma says OIG probe is related to DoJ inquiry which was previously disclosed – SI

10. AMZN:  $AMZN Amazon Prime Membership Up 35% As Big Shopping Day Coming – IBD

11. CPB: $CPB Campbell Soup to buy Pacific Foods to boost health food offerings – Reuters

12. DGSE: $DGSE DGSE Cos. Enters LOI to Acquire National Pawn – SI

13. CAPR: $CAPR J&J turns its back on Capricor and its failed stem cell tech, taking its money and rep with it

14. TRIL: $TRIL Canadian I-O biotech Trillium hunts for new partners – Fierce Bio

15. ALNY, SNY: $ALNY Alnylam, Sanofi $SNY Initiate ATLAS Phase 3 Program With RNAi Therapeutic Fitusiran – NAsdaq

16. MDLZ:  $MDLZ Mondelez Say Cyber Attack Will Hit Q2 Earnings – TheStreet

17. APA:  $APA Apache exits Canada in three deals worth $713 million – Chron

18. RSYS:  $RSYS Radisys Corp Warns for Q2 – SI

19. ADXS:  $ADXS O’Connor resigns as CEO of Advaxis with immediate effect – Fierce Bio

20. SIMO:  $SIMO Silicon Motion Technology Sees Q2 Revenue Slightly Below Guidance Range – Nasdaq

21. DXTR:  $DXTR Dextera Surgical Announces Temporary Shipping Hold on MicroCutter 5/80 – SI

22. CHKE:  $CHKE Cherokee’s stock plunges toward 20yr low after surprise loss, credit facility discussions – MW

1. ARNA:Analyst upgrades Arena ahead of Phase 2 readouts; shares up 4.8% premarket

2. GLPG:Galapagos NV was Upgraded to a Hold Rating at Janney Montgomery $GLPG

1. DOC:Physicians Realty Trust was Downgraded to a Sell Rating at Jefferies $DOC

2. EWBC:East West Bancorp was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at BMO Capital $EWBC

3. HP:UPDATE: Wells Fargo Downgrades Helmerich & Payne $HP to Underperform

1. DGLY:$DGLY ‘significant’ patent win against $AAXN

2. BMRN:$BMRN updated data ongoing BMN270 Hemophilia A study including preliminary 4E13 vg/kg cohort data in 3 of 6 patients. I

3. BGNE:$BGNE few know Chinese drug market/regulatory work than I since I was a CEO of a small pharm and VP of a big pharm since 03-07 in China.

4. ARNA:$ARNA upgraded to outperform at JMP. $27 PT

5. CLVS:$CLVS initiated at Buy at Gabelli. PT $125

1. O’Connor resigns as CEO of Advaxis with immediate effect | FierceBiotech

2. Fox Business Network Suspends Charles Payne Amid Misconduct Inquiry

1. Amazon Prime has 85M subscribers. That’s 68% market share of the 126M households in the US!

The latest analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners CIRP pegs total Prime membership at million which is up percent from the quarter and double from two years ago.

While quarterly growth is slowing Amazon is still adding a substantial amount of new Prime members who end up spending per year on average with the site compared to for.

The online retail giant continuously adds new perks for members to induce more customers to sign up free shipping cloud storage streaming media and access to exclusive deals are just some of the benefits.

2. Host your podcast on SoundCloud? I’d make other arrangements if I were you.

reducing our costs and continuing our revenue growth on our path to profitability and in control of independent future Alexander Ljung the chief executive and wrote in a blog post.

But it also faced pressure from the record labels to sign licensing deals and develop a paid subscription model to compete with Spotify and Apple Music.

In its latest financial report filed with British regulators late last year SoundCloud said that it had enough cash to meet its obligations only through September in March the company secured a million line of credit.

3. Ever wonder what it’s like for women working in the #VR industry? These women share their stories:

And in May Oculus head of computer vision Dov Katz was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer he thought was a girl.

And much like in video gaming where the use of is still relatively common despite the backlash against it it almost exclusively women who are hired as concierges at conferences and conventions encouraging people to come try on VR headsets.

After receiving several member complaints that the presence of Upload executives within the group violated the sanctity of the space we voted to remove said executives from the group Young and Duong told BuzzFeed News via email when asked in how they were addressing the fact that some members of Women in VR felt uncomfortable airing some of their issues with Upload in light of Duong friendship with Will Mason and his previous position on the board.

4. Canada recently launched a program that allows firms to have a position pre-approved and get visas within two weeks

5. SoundCloud is cutting 40% of staff to remain independent. I hope they hang in there.

SoundCloud is cutting about percent of its staff in a move the digital music service says will give it a better financial footing to compete against larger rivals Spotify and Apple Inc.

SoundCloud has about million listeners who are drawn to its expansive library of songs dance mixes podcasts and other content uploaded by artists ranging from established stars to bedroom DJs.

While consumer adoption of streaming services has led the largest record labels to see sustained sales growth for the first time since the glory days of the CD the companies delivering the music online have struggled to make money.

6. A group of whistleblowers, VCs, founders, & activists have created a #HarassmentPolicy template for VCs to draw on

Venture capitalists need to adopt formal policies to protect startup founders from sexual harassment assault and discrimination throughout the fundraising process.

We hope to see all VC firms draw from this template to formalize their own binding policies establish them with urgency and consistently with ejecting or punishing staff that violate them.

For more on how firms can ensure fair enforcement and how this cultural shift towards decency can avoid causing a chilling effect on fundraising for startups check out TechCrunch editor Josh accompanying The need for harassment policy Constine also coordinated compiled and edited the information contributed to this template.

7. The @googlevr team just released Blocks for the Vive and Rift. It’s an fun, stupidly easy 3D modeling tool:

Today it takes complex software and a specific skillset to create compelling VR and AR experiences.

So we developed Blocks a VR app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that lets you easily create beautiful objects in no time.

already seen amazing creations and use cases from modelers artists developers and even people with no modeling experience at from a robot that could star in a game to a skyline meant as a backdrop for a Tilt Brush sketch to some cacti made just for fun.

8. Microsoft announces up to 3k job cuts in shift to cloud, and lemme tell you, Trump won’t try to take credit for that

Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs largely in sales.

Reports from last week suggested this was going to happen and that Microsoft was going to specifically focus on how it sells its product Azure.

WATCH Microsoft Surface Pro is here and it really expensive Clarification An earlier version of this story misstated the number of employees to suffer layoffs.

9. We @ConHome warned in 2015 that CCHQ had to build on its microtargeting success fast as Labour would learn and copy

The reach of the online advertising campaign was such that potential Labour voters in marginal constituencies who verbally raised concerns about the NHS to a party activist on the doorstep would find their Facebook feed targeted with adverts warning about the state of the health service the following day.

The party wasted money advertising to voters in constituencies such as Labour MP Dennis Skinner Bolsover seat where the sources said Conservative HQ wrongly thought they had a realistic chance of winning in part due to a reliance on data provided by the US election campaigner Jim Messina.

Tory adverts obtained by BuzzFeed News also show how the party increasingly put online resources into fighting two regional battles holding off a Liberal Democrat comeback in southwest England and supporting Ruth Davidson Scottish Conservatives in key target seats.

10. More than 30 VCs are working to craft a “code of conduct” for the industry that defines inappropriate behavior:

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