$AMZN Get ready: Amazon Prime Day starts Monday

1. APO, MYCC:  $MYCC ClubCorp Agrees to Be Bought by Apollo $APO for $1.1 Billion – BBG

2. CBB, HCOM:  $HCOM Cincinnati Bell Inc. $CBB to Combine with Hawaiian Telcom and OnX Enterprise Solutions – PRN

3. CETV:  $CETV Central European Media Enterprises to Sell Assets for $262.5M – SI

4. AST:  $AST Asterias Biotherapeutics Receives FDA Clearance to Enroll C-4 Patients in SCiStar Study – PRN

5. CNCE:  $CNCE Concert Pharma Announces FDA Lifts Clinical Hold on Clinical Trial with CTP-543 – SI

6. ROKA:  $ROKA Roka Bioscience, Inc. Announces Co-Marketing and Supply Agreement with PURE Bioscience – PRN

7. CLLS, CLXT:  $CLLS Cellectis: Calyxt $CLXT Announces Proposed Initial Public Offering of $100M – BW

8. NVS, OPHT:  $OPHT Ophthotech and Novartis $NVS amend Fovista agreement ahead of late-stage data readout – SA

9. RXDX:  $RXDX Ignyta receives FDA orphan drug designation for entrectinib – Reuters

10. NNVC:  $NNVC NanoViricides Drug Candidates Significantly Reduced the Extent of Shingles Virus Infection – PRN

11. VRX:  $VRX Valeant pays down $811 million of term loans, shares rise – MW

12. IONS:  $IONS Ionis Pharmaceuticals presents ?new data support potential benefit of Inotersen? – Reuters

13. AMZN:  $AMZN Get ready: Amazon Prime Day starts Monday – CNN

14. FB:  $FB Facebook lowers Oculus Rift prices a second time – MW

15. CERN: $CERN Cerner co-founder and CEO Neal Patterson dies of cancer at age 67 – HCIT

16. MET: $MET MetLife says to buy bond fund manager Logan Circle for $250 million – reuters

17. LC: $LC LendingClub brushes off unsolicited offer from IEG for stake – MW

18. RETA: $RETA Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Bardoxolone Methyl – GN

19. NVS:  $NVS Novartis FDA AdCom briefing doc out for CAR-T CTL019 – FDA

20. GXP, WR:  $WR Westar Energy, Great Plains Energy $GXP amend merger agreement – Nasdaq

21. LUV:  $LUV Southwest Airlines Reports June Traffic – PRN

22. ANF:  $ANF Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch calls off merger talks; shares tumble – FT

1. HPQ:Mizuho Securities upgrades HP, raises price target

2. KEY:UPDATE: UBS Upgrades KeyCorp $KEY to Buy, PT to $22; ‘Continued Execution to Narrow Valuation …

3. PYPL:PayPal Wins A New Bullish Analyst: Bernstein Upgrades To Outperform

4. SRC:Mizuho Securities Upgrades Spirit Realty Capital $SRC to Neutral

5. WERN:UBS Upgrades Werner Enterprises $WERN to Neutral

1. AIV:Mizuho Securities Downgrades Apartment Investment Management $AIV to Underperform

2. COST:Costco was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at BMO Capital $COST

3. INTC:Jefferies downgrades Intel, drops price target to new low

4. NVDQ:Canaccord Genuity Downgrades Novadaq to Hold $NVDQ

5. PAYC:Mizuho Securities Downgrades Paycom Software $PAYC to Neutral

6. SNAP:Credit Suisse downgrades Snap on Q2 concerns

7. WTFC:Stephens Downgrades Wintrust Financial $WTFC to Equal Weight

1. HELE:$HELE reports FQ1 earnings of $1.37 EPS and $359.61M Revs –

1. NVS:$NVS — CAR-T briefing documents posted —>

2. ANF:Abercrumble & Fitch. Troubled retailer to no longer pursue a sale. Will aggressively pursue current strategy. $ANF plunges 17% #premarket.

3. VRX:$VRX Reiterates Expectation to Pay Down $5B in Debt From Divestiture Proceeds and Free Cash Flow

4. IONS:$IONS presents new top-line data from the Phase 3 NEURO-TTR study of Inotersen in patients with FAP

1. 2017 Meeting Materials, Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee

2. Talks Between Abercrombie & Fitch and Potential Buyers Stall

3. Exelixis and Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiate Phase 3 Trial of Opdivo® in Combination with CABOMETYX™ or Opdivo and Yervoy® in Combination with CABOMETYX, Versus Sunitinib in Previously Untreated Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

4. NASDAQ | SEC Filing

5. New Data Presented at Peripheral Nerve Society Meeting Further Support Potential Benefit of Inotersen

1. Trump plans to halt entrepreneur visas

2. Sen. John McCain: “There has to be a price to pay” for Russian meddling

July of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain says Russia has to pay a price for its meddling in democratic elections.

3. The @W3C has overruled members’ objections and will publish DRM for videos, reports Cory @doctorow.

After several large entertainment industry members signed on the took on a new kind of project now nearly four years old to standardize DRM giving the participants the advantage of its patent pooling user agreement without any risk of pesky enforcement.

After a perfunctory discussion they walked away from the negotiations and proceeded to ignore anyone at or on the web who disliked the idea of corporations getting to boss around librarians accessibility workers security researchers and innovators.

If you are a UI designer creating custom icons is often more trouble than worth since you probably already spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with a range of application states device sizes and UX guidelines.

4. Photobucket just killed all the photos hosted on my old 2009 blog (and others!) and IM PISSED

If the GeoCities stage was the awkward teen years of the internet and today is the mature adult version that brief phase was the college period where it spread its wings smoked Parliament Lights while talking endlessly about Tarantino and tried to pull off a fedora.

In a lot of ways feels forever ago but close enough to today that a blog or message board from that time would still be mostly functional and recognizable not as clunky and weird as the old Space Jam site or a true antique.

Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina sifted through that downloaded GeoCities on a site called One Terabyte of Kilobyte making sense of what the early days of accessible personal websites looked like.

5. Tim Berners-Lee approves controversial Web #DRM, but @W3C member organizations have two weeks to appeal —

The Free Software Foundation FSF and its campaign Defective by Design have opposed EME since its inception because it infringes on Web users control of their own computers and weakens their security and privacy.

member organizations must take responsibility for the digital rights of Web users and appeal Tim disastrous decision said FSF campaigns manager Zak Rogoff.

top priorities should be user freedom privacy security interoperability and accessibility not helping Hollywood and streaming companies make their DRM more efficient.

6. Productive entrepreneurship has been declining in the US for a while. This will exacerbate the problem.

7. We don’t talk about linkrot enough but: as pace of cultural creation accelerates, so does its decomposition

If the GeoCities stage was the awkward teen years of the internet and today is the mature adult version that brief phase was the college period where it spread its wings smoked Parliament Lights while talking endlessly about Tarantino and tried to pull off a fedora.

In a lot of ways feels forever ago but close enough to today that a blog or message board from that time would still be mostly functional and recognizable not as clunky and weird as the old Space Jam site or a true antique.

Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina sifted through that downloaded GeoCities on a site called One Terabyte of Kilobyte making sense of what the early days of accessible personal websites looked like.

8. News Orgs to seek Congressional exemption to negotiate together with Google, Facebook, Mediator

But it has across the spectrum of its membership bringing together competitors like The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post as well as scores of regional papers like The Star Tribune of Minneapolis which face the gravest threats.

Mark Thompson the chief executive of The New York Times Company told me that temperature is rising in terms of concern and in some cases anger about what seems like a very asymmetric disadvantageous relationship between the publishers and the very big digital.

Even if more help comes as promised the economic imbalance leaves the industry at the mercy of the generosity or immediate public relations imperatives Facebook and Google are on the way to holding nearly percent of the online advertising market according to eMarketer.

9. Merchants using Stripe will now be able to “accept payments from hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers.”

Stripe hopes the integration will help boost its revenues by allowing clients to tap China vast consumer market where credit cards account for only a fraction of online spending the company said.

Founded by brothers John and Patrick Collison in Stripe provides technology that enables merchants in countries to accept payments online.

It is among the cohort of young fintech companies seeking to reinvent the payments landscape by taking better advantage of digital technologies to offer more financial services and products.

10. The Magicapk site being taken down doesn’t mean that the data isn’t still out there. Another site could come up

Jio used the Aadhaar KYC process for authenticating users and this is something which all telecom operators are going to do following a DoT directive based on a flawed reading of a Supreme Court of India ruling.

A previous version of the website cached last month by Google shows a simple message back soon sic.

We have informed law enforcement agencies about the claims of the website and will follow through to ensure strict action is taken.