Qualcomm upgraded to Outperform on 3D sensing opportunity | $QCOM, $AAPL, $ORCL, $EFX, $RH

1. GNW:  $GNW Genworth Says VARegulator Approves Proposed Oceanwide Acquisition of its Virginia Companies – SI

2. RH:  $RH Restoration Hardware CEO Buys 14K Shares – SI

3. EFX: $EFX Senator Warren introduces Equifax bill; launches industry probe – Reuters

1. AAPL, HIMX, QCOM:Qualcomm upgraded to Outperform on 3D sensing opportunity at Northland $QCOM $HIMX $AAPL

2. ALV:Buckingham Research Upgrades Autoliv, Inc. $ALV to Neutral

3. CSRA:SunTrust Robinson Humphrey upgrades CSRA

4. FSLR:$FSLR upgraded Hold to Buy at DB today price target moving to $65 from $50. Analyst citing margin improvement. Average pt on the ST 53.69

1. AAL, UAL:JPMorgan downgrades American Airlines and United

2. ATUS:Altice Usa Inc was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Guggenheim $ATUS

3. EFX:Argus Downgrades Equifax $EFX to Hold

4. REG, ROIC, RPT:Grocery worries prompt downgrade of three shopping center REITs

5. ROIC:Jefferies Downgrades Retail Opportunity Investments to Hold $ROIC

1. BTCUSD:$btcusd A doji or any of the reversal candles tomorrow would be quite interesting. Says BBands, who likes candlesti…

2. LTCUSD:LTC Big fib pullback? $LTCUSD

3. ICPT:$ICPT Gapper pre/m 100$ magnet

4. NVDA:$NVDA Evercore ISI out with a big note this morning..”NVIDIA is Building the Industry Standard for AI – Raising Price Target to $250″

5. GOLD:looks like janet @federalreserve & her boyz had a very long expensive night beating down $gold $silver….NK probably didn’t help…LOL

6. ES_F:Watch your Pivots. Over night lows need to be tested $2487 $ES_F

7. LTC:We are happy to announce the coming $Waves $LTC Gateway #litecoin #blockchain @wavesplatform

8. FMCC:Looks like the tide is turning. Its legit from website. $fnma $fmcc

9. NSC:HM Payson & Co. Sells 21 Shares of Norfolk Souther Corporation $NSC

10. QCOM:QUALCOMM Incorporated upgraded by Northland Securities to outperform. $QCOM #QCOM

11. AAL:American Airlines downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JP Morgan $AAL

12. MRTX:$MRTX nice PM

13. ORCL:Oracle Corporation’s outperform rating reiterated at Wedbush. $58.00 PT. $ORCL #ORCL

14. MET:Ray Gerald L & Associates Ltd. Has $2.07 Million Stake in MetLife, Inc. $MET

15. AGN:Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI Invests $443,000 in Allergan PLC. $AGN Stock

1. Donald J. Trump on Twitter

1. I guess lack of fetal testosterone exposure makes women, as a population, more predisposed to suing for fair wages:

SAN FRANCISCO Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs.

Google has been an tech innovator its treatment of female employees has not entered the century said Kelly Dermody of the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the suit.

Google is attracting particular scrutiny over how it treats female employees after a memo written by a former male software engineer for the company argued that its efforts to bring more women into technical roles were unfair and not good for business.

2. SoftBank is seeking a massive stake in Uber — at least 17% — and wants two board seats New on @WSJ

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ET SoftBank Group is nearing an ambitious deal to take a substantial stake in Uber Technologies only if the Japanese technology investor can persuade shareholders to sell enough stock at a steep discount.

After weeks of deliberation board in recent days has been hashing out its response to a potential investment led by.

3. Move fast and break things.

To test if these ad categories were real we paid to target those groups with three in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds.

are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards said Rob Leathern product management director at Facebook.

In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville by groups that included Nazis Facebook and other tech companies vowed to strengthen their monitoring of hate speech.

4. Patreon holds astounding power to revitalize the creative economy. Artists deserve more than a cut of ad revenue

Illustrators comedians game makers and musicians use Patreon to let fans pay a monthly subscription fee for special access to their work.

The cash should give Patreon the muscle needed to compete with other big platforms that help creators monetize including YouTube and new Watch tab of original video.

Musician and videographer Jack Conte had struggled to earn enough from his work and found project crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter provide the steady capital artists need to focus on creativity.

5. Even though we don’t know new valuation, $1B most likely means Google now owns a bigger % slice of Lyft than of Uber

Alphabet has held conversations with Lyft about a potential investment in recent weeks signalling strong support for Uber Technologies main competitor according to people familiar with the matter.

While Lyft has recently focused on controlling spending the cash would allow the San startup to pursue more aggressive growth with subsidies for drivers discounts for riders and marketing.

looking to complete a fundraising deal of his own Uber is advancing on an investment from SoftBank Group and others of as much as billion most of which would allow existing shareholders to cash out.

6. “They allege Google kept them in ‘job ladders’ that had lower compensation ceilings than men with similar skills.”

Google was accused in a lawsuit of systematically paying male employees more than their female counterparts adding the internet giant to a growing list of technology companies sued for gender discrimination.

the same year Ellen Pao put Silicon culture front and center during a trial pitting her against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.

Women continue to get paid less than men despite companies and society overall making great strides in equality according to David Gottlieb a civil rights attorney at Wigdor LLP in New York who involved in the Google suit.

7. She said almost all the female software engineers at Google were front-end while men were back-end engineers.

SAN FRANCISCO Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs.

Google has been an tech innovator its treatment of female employees has not entered the century said Kelly Dermody of the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the suit.

Google is attracting particular scrutiny over how it treats female employees after a memo written by a former male software engineer for the company argued that its efforts to bring more women into technical roles were unfair and not good for business.

8. “We’re turning off this feature…until we turn it back on again.”

Facebook equips businesses with powerful ways to reach the right people with the right message.

ProPublica surfaced that these offensive education and employer fields were showing up in our ads interface as targetable audiences for campaigns.

Advertisers can report any inappropriate targeting fields directly in the ads interface or via our Help Center.

9. New: @lyft studies expansion to Canada, AUS/NZ, U.K., Mexico. (NOT because Lyft thinks it can beat @Uber there.)

Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.

10. The next platform battle – advertisers vs operating systems? Tip @techmeme @mediagazer

The biggest advertising organizations say Apple will the current economic model of the internet with plans to integrate technology into the new version of Safari.

The infrastructure of the modern Internet depends on consistent and generally applicable standards for cookies so digital companies can innovate to build content services and advertising that are personalized for users and remember their visits.

Safari move breaks those standards and replaces them with an amorphous set of shifting rules that will hurt the user experience and sabotage the economic model for the Internet.