by Alpha | Oct 23, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
3. SRRA:$SRRA upgraded to Buy from Hold at Jefferies. PT $4 frm $1.50
DOWNGRADES
2. BIIB:$BIIB downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Citi
3. CELG:$CELG downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at Piper. PT $133 from $145
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
3. KMB:#BREAKING: Kimberly-Clark $KMB Q3 Revenue, $4.64B vs. $4.66B expected
5. MNKD:$MNKD *DJ MannKind Restructures Near-Term Debt Obligations
8. GM:Been waiting all weekend to post this. Great story by @DavidWelchBN, even if it could use some more dino art. $GM…
10. CETX:$CETX halt
14. EXAC:$EXAC Halt – News Pending. Halt time: 08:10:07.
Trending News Headlines
1. Ill-Timed Uber Investment Roils a Giant Saudi Fund
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Public Investment Fund is poised to become one of the world’s biggest investors. But the PIF, as it is known, is off to a rocky start: After struggling to calculate its own value, it is mired in conflict over disappointing investments, including in Uber.
2. Agenus creates New Cell Therapy subsidiary named AgenTus Therapeutics
Agenus Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN), an immuno-oncology (I-O) company with a pipeline of immune checkpoint antibodies and cancer vaccines, today announced the launch of a subsidiary company for its cell…
3. Enanta Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 1 a/b Clinical Results for its Lead FXR Agonist, EDP-305
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTA), a chemistry-driven biotechnology company dedicated to creating small molecule drugs for viral infections a
4. Hartford to Acquire Aetna Group Life, Disability Business
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has agreed to pay $1.45 billion to health insurer Aetna Inc. for a unit that provides life-, disability-income and other insurance products to employers’ benefits programs in the U.S.
5. Prince Alwaleed says bitcoin will implode: ‘Enron in the making’
Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told CNBC on Monday that bitcoin will implode one day.
6. Eiger Announces Positive Phase 2 Interim 24-Week Data with Pegylated Interferon Lambda in Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) Infection at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Meeting
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., (NASDAQ: EIGR) today announced…
7. Evoke Pharma Announces Positive Topline Results from Comparative Exposure Pharmacokinetic Study for Gimoti™
505(b)(2) NDA on track for FDA submission in Q1 2018
8. Achillion Announces Presentation of Data From OMEGA-1 Phase 2b Trial With Odalasvir, AL-335, and Simeprevir (JNJ-4178) at the 2017 Liver Meeting
– 98.9% SVR12 achieved following six weeks of therapy for patients with chronic HCV genotypes 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6 –
9. AstraZeneca and Merck Rapidly Advance LYNPARZA® (olaparib) in Japan With a Second Regulatory Submission
AstraZeneca and Merck Rapidly Advance LYNPARZA® (olaparib) in Japan With a Second Regulatory Submission
Technology News
She specializes in social engineering security assessments including physical voice vishing and text phishing.
She consults in remediation and prevention of security incidents through creation of policy and procedures as well as customized training for your individual office culture.
I gained network access and stole several thousands of dollars in physical primitives by picking my way through cheap locks credit to Deviant Ollam for the rad lockpicking animations.
recent actions took place in the middle of a firestorm over revelations in The New York Times and The New Yorker about another entertainment industry figure Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of decades of sexual harassment and abuse.
On the same day Price was suspended an actress Rose McGowan posted a series of messages on Twitter saying she had previously told the head of Amazon Studios the movie and television group that Weinstein had raped her.
In August at a staff meeting for Amazon employees held at a basketball arena Bezos was asked about the dearth of diversity implying gender and race on his senior leadership team.
recent actions took place in the middle of a firestorm over revelations in The New York Times and The New Yorker about another entertainment industry figure Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of decades of sexual harassment and abuse.
On the same day Price was suspended an actress Rose McGowan posted a series of messages on Twitter saying she had previously told the head of Amazon Studios the movie and television group that Weinstein had raped her.
In August at a staff meeting for Amazon employees held at a basketball arena Bezos was asked about the dearth of diversity implying gender and race on his senior leadership team.
Because all lived through massive worldwide hardware revolutions the growth of the Internet and the adoption of smartphones we erroneously assume another one is around the corner and once again a few kids in a garage can write a little software to take advantage of it.
However in fairness software and services built atop newly emerging hardware are likely an exception to the larger rule here startups in those niches have far better odds than most others.
True believers argue that cryptocurrencies will overturn everything in time but read this Twitter thread and see if like me you help but finding yourself nodding along even if like me you truly want the Internet and its economy to be decentralized.
This situation upsets me because the XL has numerous desirable advantages over the much smaller bezels a larger battery that lasts longer and just a bigger canvas on which I can pen my letter of complaint to LG Display the maker of the offending screen in question.
The Verge Creative Director James Bareham sides with Google on this describing the Pixel XL as the phone screen tuned most closely to professional displays presents natural colors in terms of photos but is a little dark he says.
I have also photographed cats cars architecture and nighttime scenes and in each case looking at them on the XL made me want to edit some saturation in and modify the color balance.
First reported on Twitter by Android Alex Dobie multiple people have noticed that when you look at the screen with a gray background you can see faint outlines of the navigation buttons on the bottom.
Whatever it is worrisome so we reached out to Google for comment and the response from a spokesperson in full but obviously pay attention to the second part more than the rosy specs listed in the first half.
Having a portion of your screen permanently marred takes what was a negative point against the phone and turns it into something much closer to a.
This group includes Jeff Blackburn the entertainment head and David Limp who oversees the Amazon devices division responsible for projects like the Echo and Alexa.
The dynamic at highest ranks has not become a major narrative over the last few years even as power has grown and the technology industry has come under fire for being dominated mainly by white men.
current and former employees are suggesting that the scarcity of women at the upper echelons of Amazon could have made the company more lenient toward Price until his actions became a public relations embarrassment The New York Times reported on Friday evening.
Dressed in black jeans brown loafers a denim jacket only clothes I can fit and wearing a Fitbit with a hot pink band that cost her on Amazon Fowler is and seven months pregnant.
As Kara Swisher wrote in Recode Fowler did everyone in tech a favor by unmasking the donkeys as by the venture capitalists and investors and boards and even the media felling them with one blog post what happens when a hot company becomes hostage to its increasingly dysfunctional and toxic.
The blog post was notable for its dispassionate tone as the young engineer who had left the company after a year walked the reader through everything that had gone very very wrong in the brozilla culture of kegs sexual coarseness and snaky competition.
In June Kaspersky revealed that it and a bunch of locales where negotiations over the Iran deal took place had been infected by Duqu a thread related to StuxNet.
Regin was a sophisticated spy tool Kaspersky found in the wild last year that was used to hack the Belgian telecom Belgacom and the European Commission.
She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog publishes at outlets including Vice Motherboard the Nation the Atlantic Al Jazeera and appears frequently on television and radio.
No doubt when Kalanick met the Fowler at the office Christmas party soon after she started it never entered his head that she would become the disciplinarian who effectively confiscated his car keys for reckless driving with one blog post.
The blog post was notable for its dispassionate tone as the young engineer who had left the company after a year walked the reader through everything that had gone very very wrong in the brozilla culture of kegs sexual coarseness and snaky competition.
When memo exploded Huffington oversaw the investigation by Eric Holder reached out and talked to employees and said she wanted to the leadership feet to the Uber later fired people including senior executives.
by Alpha | Oct 4, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
DOWNGRADES
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
1. NFLX:$NFLX PT raised to $225 from $190 at UBS
4. TTPH:$TTPH With modified interval between meals and dosing only 81% exposure compared to IV. Hence need to run a smaller…
5. OIL:$OIL #WTI #ElliottWave Analysis & Outlook VIDEO with 12 Other Major #Markets by @FXTradersEDGE_ >…
8. AMGN:$CTMX Amgen $AMGN And CytomX Therapeutics Announce Strategic Collaboration In Immuno-Oncology – PRN
9. ROKU:$ROKU going to wrap up my fun today after the bell. a friend reminded me I don’t need a new shining toy and why I retired.
10. MTBC:$ECYT and $CLSN and $MTBC been awesome as small caps are hot!!, see what’s next today on news?.
14. CTMX:$CTMX +31% and Wedbush reiterated CTMX with Outperform, price target: $37 up from $26
Trending News Headlines
1. Putin Says Oil Pact With OPEC May Be Extended to End of 2018
President Vladimir Putin said Russia may agree to extend a deal with OPEC to curb oil supplies beyond March to the end of 2018, though he’ll wait to make a decision until nearer the end of the existing pact.
2. Amicus’s new drug for Pompe disease shows strong results
A new drug from Amicus Therapeutics appears to deliver greater improvements in muscle and lung function for people with Pompe disease, data show.
3. Actinium Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on Actimab-A Phase 2 Clinical Trial for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
– Phase 2 clinical trial is currently active at 16 clinical trial sites in the United States, surpassing the 10 clinical trial sites that were planned for the trial
4. Amicus Therapeutics Announces Additional Positive Data in Pompe Disease Phase 1/2 Study at World Muscle Society
Mean Six-Minute Walk Distance Improved in ERT-Naive Patients (+42 Meters at 6 Months, +75 Meters at 9 Months) and ERT-Switch Patients (+35 Meters at 6 Months, +37 Meters at 9 Months)
5. Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part
The iPhone maker pays $2 billion a year in patent fees, and it’s had enough.
6. EU takes Ireland to court for not claiming Apple tax windfall
The European Commission said on Wednesday it was taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice for its failure to recover up to 13 billion euros ($15.3 billion) of tax due from Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a move labeled as “regrettable” by Dublin.
7. Viking Therapeutics Announces Top-Line Results from Proof-of-Concept Study of VK0214 in In Vivo Model of X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD)
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (“Viking”) (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage…
8. Capricor Therapeutics Presents Positive Six-Month Results in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at World Muscle Society International Congress
SAINT MALO, France, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPR), in its presentation…
Technology News
These included transforming operations and cost structure for growth assuming a leadership position in the server market segment and maintaining profitability during the global recession.
He joined Intel in and served in a number of positions including general manager of Peripheral Components Operation and the Folsom Microcomputer Division and in as Andy chief of staff.
From to he held various positions at Intel including executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group responsible for the microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop mobile and enterprise computing as well as executive vice president and general manager of the Sales and Marketing Group.
The European Union EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to announce a recovery order later reports the Financial Times.
Such a move by the European Commission EC would be similar to a euros bill it levied against US technology giant Apple last year for Irish back taxes the Financial Times said.
Separately the European Commission is set to announce plans to crack down on VAT fraud which cost the bloc euros in lost tax each year.
This means that the payments between two companies in the same group should be in line with arrangements that take place under commercial conditions between independent businesses arm length principle.
The Commission also has two ongoing investigations into concerns that tax rulings may give rise to state aid issues in Luxembourg as regards McDonald and GDF Suez now Engie.
Our Communication set out the challenges Member States currently face when it comes to acting on this pressing issue and outlines possible solutions to be explored ahead of a Commission proposal in.
These included transforming operations and cost structure for growth assuming a leadership position in the server market segment and maintaining profitability during the global recession.
He joined Intel in and served in a number of positions including general manager of Peripheral Components Operation and the Folsom Microcomputer Division and in as Andy chief of staff.
From to he held various positions at Intel including executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group responsible for the microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop mobile and enterprise computing as well as executive vice president and general manager of the Sales and Marketing Group.
Continue reading the main story That investigators did not discover the full extent of the incident before Verizon closed the deal to acquire Yahoo in June was surprising to outside cybersecurity analysts.
But last August a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe quietly began offering information for sale according to intelligence gathered by InfoArmor an Arizona cybersecurity company that monitors the darker corners of the web.
Investigators said the Russian government used stolen Yahoo data to spy on a range of targets in the United States including White House and military officials bank executives and even a gambling regulator in Nevada according to an indictment.
you see all these large enterprise software companies looking at messaging as a major platform looking to partner with us first and foremost said Brad Armstrong head of global business and corporate development.
Slack entered the partnership to differentiate its messaging product among large corporations a market the company has made a top priority since launching an version of its messenger in January.
Slack is hoping the Oracle partnership will entice more corporations to choose its messenger over Microsoft Teams Facebook Workplace and Atlassian Stride all of which launched in the past year.
Unlike a lot of digital media executives who scramble to figure out a revenue model only after built an audience Chung who at is old enough not only to remember the dotcom bubble but to have worked in it is measured and cool when asked how Giphy which is reportedly valued by investors at million will make money.
years later we were on stage at showing Mark Zuckerberg send Messenger chief David Marcus a GIF from Giphy Chung says in his calm even manner one morning in September as he sits with Leibsohn in a dimly lit conference room in the Meatpacking District headquarters.
left to right Jasmyn Lawson Stacy Rizetta and Tiffany Vazquez Photo Emiliano Granado By adding more original content including material that it is making itself with a growing network of artists and overseen by a producer worked at SNL and The Colbert Report Giphy is trying to distinguish itself just the way Netflix is with series like Stranger Things in an effort to create more user demand.
As Recode previously reported the quarreling board decided on a compromise peeling out more stringent terms that would have further attempted to put guardrails around Kalanick while also giving more power to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Shervin Pishevar one of closest allies and a former board observer at the company previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal on voting changes be approved.
board action today was unfair and illegal and we will be relentless in rectifying this wrong he said in a statement after the vote alleging that it takes more valuable shares away from early owners like himself.
Snap has sold about of its camera glasses called Spectacles CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday.
For Snap the glasses are a way to build expertise in the hardware field in anticipation of greater adoption in the next ten years so many things are coming for Spectacles he said.
While Snap IPO saw big gains out of the gate shares have fallen more than percent over the past six months.
Vanity New Establishment Summit brings together titans of technology politics business media and the arts for inspiring conversations on the issues and innovations shaping the future.
by Alpha | Sep 29, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
3. ZYNE:$ZYNE upgraded to Overweight at Piper. PT $16
Trending Social Alerts
1. HMNY:$HMNY mentally giving this full room to go $14-16 today if the squeeze gets rolling; market is so negative on it, yet just keeps flying..
4. LOXO:$LOXO PT raised to $102 from $75 at BTIG
5. TRN:Trinity Industries upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup $TRN
6. VERI:a bull pounding table on Veritone $VERI this morning after this week’s Citron pounding
10. OIL:Whether Your #Trading #Forex #Stocks $Gold $Oil – Check out our Online Daily #Newspaper to Stay in the Loop! >>…
12. INSY:$INSY Files NDA for Buprenorphine Sublingual Spray
Trending News Headlines
1. A biotech scorecard: Taking stock of the industry’s make-or-break September
After a rollicking August, the industry is now barreling into a September brimming with events that could either wreck the rally or reinstate the boom.
2. TG Therapeutics Announces TGR-1202 (umbralisib) Selected For Grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to Support the Development of TGR-1202 as an Oral B-cell Targeted Treatment Option in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PMS)
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TG Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TGTX ) announced today that it has entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society through Fast Forward LLC, its not for profit subsidiary. Under the agreement, Fast Forward will provide funding to TG Therapeutics to further the preclinical development of TGR-1202 (umbralisib), the Company’s novel PI3K-delta inhibitor, as a potential oral treatment option for progressive forms of Multiple Sclerosis (PMS). TGR-1202 was selected by Fast Forward through a competitive selection process based on its potential in the treatment of PMS. Dr. Lawrence Steinman, MD, of Stanford University will lead the research team on this effort.
3. Maxim Jacobs, CFA on Twitter
“Look at that mean seizure free interval, they must have had some super responders $ZGNX”
4. zach on Twitter
“$ZGNX ‘008 efficacy/safety snapshots impress”
5. A $6.4 Billion Windfall Awaits Big U.S. Banks in Trump’s Tax Cut
The six largest U.S. banks could see net income rise $6.4 billion, or 7 percent, if President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress can push through their proposed corporate tax rate cut.
Technology News
The is trying to stop three search warrants let the Department of Justice snoop around Facebook accounts over Inauguration Day protests.
Demonstrators came to Washington to protest President Donald Trump inauguration and over ended up getting charged with felony rioting.
The DOJ amended their demand in August to now omitting the digital address of visitors and unpublished posts hosted on the site.
India in the truest sense is a microcosm of the IBM company Vanitha Narayanan chairman of the Indian operations said in an interview at main campus in Bangalore where the office towers are named after American golf courses like Peachtree and Pebble Beach.
Rometty who helped carry out the India expansion strategy when she was head of global services division has also discussed with the new administration plans to modernize government technology and expand tech training for people without college degrees.
Starting with a drawing of a husband trying to plan a surprise meal for his wife Karyampudi depicted the refrigerator looking at what food was inside sending over relevant recipes telling him what extra ingredients he needed to pick up and playing a video showing him how to cook it all.
In this data memo we apply a tested dictionary of sources about political news and information being shared over Twitter over a ten day period around the Presidential Election.
Using location information we place a third of users by state and create a simple index for the distribution of polarizing content around the country.
Media News and Political Information during the US Election Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States Data Memo.
FCC Commissioner Calls on Apple to iPhone FM Antennas That No Longer Exist Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released the following statement today calling on Apple to activate the FM chips that are in iPhones to promote public safety In recent years I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States.
When Hurricane Irma wiped out power and cell phone service a hidden feature in our smartphones could have helped Floridians stay informed.
The idea being that Apple and other companies refuse to the because FM radio is free so they want everyone to use streaming services that cost money.
Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Echo Show.
The device could help Google keep up in the race for the smart home market after Amazon just revealed a slew of new Echos and as Facebook continues to work on its codename video calling screen.
A that worked with many different partners could simplify set up lock in Google as an essential part of the smart home and compete with new Echo Plus hub.
Accel The Chernin Group Eniac Ventures Homebrew Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman and others are participating.
not just a record button Anchor also allows for users to make calls directly via the app facilitating a podcast conversation with multiple parties.
Brian partner at Accel said that Anchor team is leveraging new technologies like to build a unique experience for people to collect thoughts and share them.
India in the truest sense is a microcosm of the IBM company Vanitha Narayanan chairman of the Indian operations said in an interview at main campus in Bangalore where the office towers are named after American golf courses like Peachtree and Pebble Beach.
Rometty who helped carry out the India expansion strategy when she was head of global services division has also discussed with the new administration plans to modernize government technology and expand tech training for people without college degrees.
Starting with a drawing of a husband trying to plan a surprise meal for his wife Karyampudi depicted the refrigerator looking at what food was inside sending over relevant recipes telling him what extra ingredients he needed to pick up and playing a video showing him how to cook it all.
TaskRabbit the platform for hiring people to do everything from build furniture to stand in line for you at the Apple Store has sold itself to Ikea Recode first reported.
IKEA Group ownership TaskRabbit could realize even greater opportunities increasing earning potential of Taskers and connecting consumers to a wide range of affordable services Philpot said in a press release.
a fast changing retail environment we continuously strive to develop new and improved products and services to make our lives a little bit easier Ikea CEO Jesper Brodin said in a press release.
The purchase of TaskRabbit was fueled by need to further bolster its digital customer service capabilities to better compete with rivals likes Amazon which has stepped up its home goods and installation offerings.
And this week it released a nifty augmented reality app for the Apple iPhone called Using the camera a customer can scan a room and then place Ikea furniture virtually to see how it looks see below.
For those who do not know the massive retailer or have never spent hours assembling one of its Kallax shelves using those tiny little hex tools the Ikea Group is led by Jesper Brodin.
by Alpha | Sep 28, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
5. SYRS:$SYRS upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at JMP
DOWNGRADES
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
1. GOLD:$Gold Bar #iPhoneCase #iPhone6 #iPhone6s #iPhone6sPlus #iphone7 #iPhone7Plus > FREE SHIPPING by @mytradingbuddy >>…
13. GILD:RBC $GILD M&A expect additional bolton acquisitions expl. modif. improve safety enable #allogeneic delivery technol…
Trending News Headlines
1. BeiGene Presents Preliminary Phase 1 Data for BGB-A317 in Chinese Patients with Advanced Tumors at the 20th Annual Meeting of CSCO
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BEIJING, China, Sept. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BeiGene, Ltd. (NASDAQ: BGNE ), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative molecularly targeted and immuno-oncology drugs for the treatment of cancer, today presented preliminary data from the dose-verification portion of the ongoing Phase 1/2 trial of its investigational anti-PD-1 antibody BGB-A317 in Chinese patients with advanced solid tumors at the 20 th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) in Xiamen, China. The preliminary data suggest that BGB-A317 was generally well tolerated and exhibited preliminary evidence of anti-tumor activity in a Chinese study population with advanced solid tumors. BeiGene and Celgene Corporation have a global strategic collaboration for BGB-A317 for solid tumors; BeiGene retains exclusive rights to BGB-A317 in China.
2. Meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee
(Javascript is required to view Mediasite content)
3. dough on Twitter
“@cornel6m $TGTX best part is detail described on TGR 1202”
4. Southwest cuts capacity guidance due to recent natural disasters
JetBlue
5. ‘Amazon Effect’ Leads Investors to Sour on Retail
Amazon.com’s expanding reach is prompting investors to dump shares of retailers far from the U.S. While the “Amazon effect” has been most pronounced in the U.S., investor concern overseas has been rising.
6. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Highlights Poziotinib Data in Lung Cancer to be Presented in an Oral Presentation at the 18th IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer in Yokohama, Japan, October 15-18, 2017
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Highlights Poziotinib Data in Lung Cancer to be Presented in an Oral Presentation at the 18th World Conference on Lung Cancer
7. Legal Weed May Be a Windfall for McDonald’s and Taco Bell
The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal.
Technology News
By Katie Bo Williams and Ali Breland PM EDT.
The Hill K Street NW Suite Washington DC tel fax.
The contents of this site are Capitol Hill Publishing a subsidiary of News Communications Inc.
ET Google has started overhauling millions of search results in neither the search giant nor its detractors are happy about it.
The Alphabet search engine on Wednesday said it has started allowing rival services to bid for and resell advertising space at the very top of Google search results in Europe.
The new ads appear alongside similar product ads from own unit which.
The autonomous cars he was instrumental in developing at Google are already ferrying real passengers around Phoenix Arizona while trucks he built at Otto are now part of plan to make freight transport safer and more efficient.
Levandowski has done perhaps more than anyone else to propel transportation toward its own Singularity a time when automated cars trucks and aircraft either free us from the danger and drudgery of human decimate mass transit encourage urban sprawl and enable deadly bugs and hacks.
Levandowski spent months shuttling between Mountain View and yet still found time to create an online stock market prediction game with Jesse Levinson a computer science at Stanford who later cofounded his own autonomous vehicle startup Zoox.
The Japanese firm agreed to block any attempts to elevate Travis Kalanick controversial former leader back to the top ranks according to people familiar with the capital firm Benchmark which led ouster in June has sought a guarantee in writing from SoftBank that it would reject reappointing Kalanick as chief executive officer and block his appointment as chairman of the board or head of one of its subcommittees said the people.
Under either proposal unclear whether Uber would create new directors or shuffle its existing eleven board legal dispute between Benchmark largest venture capital backer and Kalanick has hung over investment discussions.
Kalanick has told acquaintances he has no intention of trying to return as CEO but he may someday seek a position as a strategic or operational partner to Khosrowshahi said people who have spoken with the.
About percent were critical of Hillary Clinton falsely accusing her of funding antifa short for protesters tying her to the lethal terrorist attack in Benghazi Libya in and discussing her daughter use of Twitter.
But Representative Adam Schiff of California the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he would like to know exactly what the company has done to find covert Russian activity and what it has discovered so far about fake accounts including their reach and impact.
deeply respects the integrity of the election process a cornerstone of all democracies and will continue to strengthen our platform against bots and other forms of manipulation that violate our Terms of Service Twitter said in a statement.
Amazon introduced a version of the Echo today with a dedicated bass tweeter and a modified shorter design.
The introduction of audio that can stream to multiple devices simultaneously means that Echo now poses a direct competitive threat to Sonos.
To help push the idea of Alexa as a phone replacement Amazon also introduced a separate device called Connect it will go on sale today as well.
Tweets geoffreyfowler More Fortune ZDNet Om Malik SiliconANGLE The Register New York Times CNNMoney BBC Newser Silicon Republic Reuters CNET Gizmodo The Hill BetaNews Wall Street Journal BuzzFeed Mashable Engadget The Verge Forbes TechCrunch Recode Bloomberg The Guardian and Recode More Bloomberg Politico Axios BuzzFeed Seeking Alpha CNBC Mashable and Bloomberg More TechCrunch Reuters VentureBeat Wall Street Journal MacDailyNews MacRumors Nikkei Financial Times and PE Hub Blog Roku sets IPO price at valuing firm at begins trading Thursday on NASDAQ Roku set its IPO price at per share according to Dow Jones which would give the video streaming device maker a billion stock market value when it debuts on Thursday.
More Recode CNBC Axios TechCrunch Engadget CNET Consumerist The Verge Fortune and Silicon Valley Business Facebook Best place to build make an impact.
More BetaNews CNBC Fortune BGR iPhone in Canada Blog Apple Support TechCrunch Axios iMore The Guardian MacRumors and Business Insider More Wired Adweek Engadget CNNMoney Facebook Forbes Fortune Gizmodo and Mashable More Recent Gists from Om Malik AndroidGuys TechCrunch ArcticStartup Telegraph Adweek Engadget International Business Times Tubefilter Mashable Search Engine Journal Digital Trends Breitbart The Register Lifehacker InvestorPlace Polygon The Guardian CNET VentureBeat TechCo Consumerist Quartz iPhone in Canada Blog On MSFT Socialnomics Ubergizmo hypebot TechSpot WebProNews The FADER Hacker Noon ZDNet AVC Slate Fone Arena Inquirer Softpedia News Business Insider Neowin iPhone Hacks Peter Reality Check Nextgov Tech Times BBC Social Media Today Ars Technica NPR The Hill AppleInsider Investor Business Daily Phandroid SlashGear MacRumors The Stranger iMore LJ infoDOCKET and Forbes Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch.
The autonomous cars he was instrumental in developing at Google are already ferrying real passengers around Phoenix Arizona while trucks he built at Otto are now part of plan to make freight transport safer and more efficient.
Levandowski has done perhaps more than anyone else to propel transportation toward its own Singularity a time when automated cars trucks and aircraft either free us from the danger and drudgery of human decimate mass transit encourage urban sprawl and enable deadly bugs and hacks.
Levandowski spent months shuttling between Mountain View and yet still found time to create an online stock market prediction game with Jesse Levinson a computer science at Stanford who later cofounded his own autonomous vehicle startup Zoox.
After reports of foreign interference in the to the US and French presidential elections we also worked closely with German officials on a number of initiatives to fight disinformation and make Facebook a safer and more secure environment for genuine civic engagement.
To fight false news and support healthy civic discourse we tested Related Articles which gives people easier access to different perspectives and used machine learning to reduce clickbait and spam including in videos.
On election night we supported national and international media partners such as El Pais Funke Mediengruppe RTL Nieuws and others who reported on the voting and provided context on the results via Facebook Live using facilities in our Berlin office.
by Alpha | Sep 27, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
DOWNGRADES
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
3. IMNP:$IMNP premarket up 86%
4. AUPH:CANT $AUPH BUY PT 14 upcoming R&D event the company plans to nominate a new indication for voclosporin.
5. LITE:$LITE – Lumentum upgraded on valuation, checks at MKM Partners
8. AXON:$AXON why is this worth $700M ?
10. CASC:$CASC FDA Orphan Drug Designation Granted to Tucatinib for the Treatment of HER2+ Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
11. BOLD:$BOLD FDA grants Rare Pediatric Disease, Fast Track for AT132
12. ITUS:$ITUS: GapDN 0.27[-5.4%,fill:20%], PrvCl:5.02, PrvLo:4.00, PDayGp+, 17:3Accel-, tf:1110000, lowFlt:14M, 6HiDays:636%, p$vol:228T
13. DRI:$DRI: Maxim Group ups to Buy
Trending News Headlines
1. Trump’s tax plan to propose deep U.S. rate cuts, lacks revenue details
U.S. President Donald Trump will call on Wednesday for slashing tax rates on businesses and the wealthy as part of a new tax plan that is likely to offer few details about how to pay for the cuts without expanding the federal deficit.
2. Apple iPhone X Production Woe Sparked by Juliet and Her Romeo
Apple has hit another production snag on its new iPhone X, say people familiar with the situation—this time over a pair of components dubbed Romeo and Juliet.
Technology News
I could create a quick lambda function to trigger on the SNS topic messages and then respond again with pinpoint.
You can define rich messaging campaigns with various substitutions based on stored user data.
SMS is an area of continued investment for AWS so you can expect to see more advances and improvements as customers give us feedback on these new features.
Asked if it would follow Facebook lead and make publicly visible the dark ads currently hidden on its platform a Twitter spokesperson declined to answer saying simply We do have anything to announce now.
And because they are not subject to the same oversight as traditional radio TV and print ads also enticing to foreign entities that might seek to influence elections without leaving a trail of digital breadcrumbs.
Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner are trying to rally support for a bill that would require digital platforms with over million users to put any political ad buy of more than into a public database.
But the recent ad from rival Experian highlights a more troublesome aspect of credit agencies their use of questionable methods to spook people into buying services they may not need and in so doing giving the companies permission to share data with marketers and business partners.
Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra an associate professor of marketing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said two big problems with pitch are that no one will read words of fine print and that relatively few consumers have the slightest idea what the dark Web is.
Swire at Georgia Tech noted that Experian agreed to pay in to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived consumers who sought free credit reports.
WASHINGTON Reuters A divided Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a report that found for the first time since there is in the wireless market a finding that could help Sprint Corp and US Inc to merge.
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said the competition report a decidedly myopic view of the ecosystem and instead focuses only on in the provision of mobile wireless This is like a doctor looking at one organ and pronouncing a patient fit as a.
FCC Republican Commissioner Mike praised the report and noted intense wireless competition has led to price cuts despite carriers investing billion in networks over the last six years.
According to the NFL the videos and recaps will be from all regular season games plus the playoffs and the Super Bowl and will be made available to Facebook users worldwide.
Alongside the footage from the games themselves the media division will also distribute content from its production arm NFL Films on newly launched Watch platform.
Last season the NFL had a million deal with Twitter to live stream Thursday Night Football for example.
With the acquisition now a software engineer in what Trivago calls its profiling That may sound ominous to privacy hawks and Kleinwächter says any gathering of user data requires being up front and providing transparency.
But in October of that year Tripl added the option to instead sign up with an email and answer a short questionnaire about simple for vacation goals such as Culture Party Relaxing Romance and Luxury.
The privacy page also details how people can delete Facebook cookies so the social network follow their activities on Tripl and explains rights under strict federal data protection law.
by Alpha | Sep 21, 2017 | Pre-Market
PRE-MARKET MOVERS
UPGRADES
DOWNGRADES
1. BIIB:$BIIB downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Raymond James.
EARNINGS
Trending Social Alerts
5. ITUS:$ITUS Provides Update on Cancer Detection Technology and New CAR-T Initiative for Ovarian Cancer Moot PR, but caution given high short %..
6. USD:#BREAKING: Philly Fed Prices Paid: September 34.4, August 21.1. $USD
7. ALNY:$ALNY shares ‘substantially overvalued’ – Nomura. Maintains Reduce rating, PT $56
14. AAOI:$AAOI — nice fast trip down from 70, and had a very hard time with that 70 mark
Trending News Headlines
1. S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk From Debt Growth
S&P Global Ratings cut China’s sovereign credit rating for the first time since 1999, citing the risks from soaring debt, and revised its outlook to stable from negative.
Technology News
It is stupid Collin Mulliner a security researcher who studied Bluetooth for years told Motherboard in a Twitter chat.
Motherboard tested this behavior on an iPhone with iOS installed and verified that Bluetooth and remain on in the settings after turning them off in the Control Center as some users have started to notice.
Turning off Bluetooth and reduces your exposure to potential attacks to hardware firmware and software so it good practice Barisani told me.
About a year and a half ago I joined Google to pursue my dream job to create compelling hardware products built with smarts at their core.
Creating beautiful products that people rely on every single day is a journey and we are investing for the long run.
These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line and we excited to see what we can do together as one team.
WASHINGTON Reuters The top markets regulator said on Wednesday that hackers accessed its corporate disclosure database and may have illegally profited by trading on the insider information stolen.
The incident comes just weeks after Equifax Inc a major consumer credit reporting agency disclosed that hackers had stolen data on more than million customers and underscores the threat cyber criminals pose to the integrity of the financial markets.
Two years ago it charged a group of mainly stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine with the theft of thousands of corporate press statements ahead of their public release resulting in more than million in illegal profit.
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is taking steps to stop marketers from being able to target advertisements in offensive ways on the social network through its system.
It the latest controversy to emerge for Facebook whose advertising business has been under intense scrutiny since the Silicon Valley company disclosed that it discovered approximately ads by fake accounts likely out of Russia that sought to sow political discord during the presidential election.
At its scale Facebook which has billion users relies heavily on automated software to sell ads and to monitor activity on the social network.
The Apple TV remote has also been subtly redesigned a white ridge around the menu button now which makes the thing far easier to pick up correctly in the dark and a new gyroscope in it for better motion tracking.
I watched The Dark Knight in HD on HBO Go with our video team and the Apple TV HDR processing blew out all the contrast in the image sharpened everything to hell and turned the film grain into noise.
I love that single system lets you log into your cable provider once and then instantly authenticate every app supported across every tvOS and iOS device even if major players like Comcast are holding out for now.
new Series smartwatch starts shipping this Friday and the biggest feature change between last model and this new Watch is that it has cellular capabilities.
While writing my review of the Apple Watch Series with LTE capabilities I experienced notable connectivity issues.
Unfortunately we still know when that software release is expected or exactly how it will fix the issue of the Watch connecting to cellular networks when supposed to.
Google and Facebook have come under fire for allowing advertisers to direct ads to users who searched for or expressed interest in racist sentiments and hate speech.
Amazon customers buying products that were innocent enough on their own like cooking ingredients received bought prompts for other items that would help them produce explosives according to the Channel News.
In one instance a search for magnesium ribbon a product that can be used to make a crude fuse yielded a suggestion for two powders that explode when mixed together in the right proportions and then ignited.
It was a long wait but Thursday morning finally looked like the time for me to congratulate HTC on a smart move.
To be clear HTC still has a solid team of engineers that works on its branded devices such as its flagship smartphone which is touched by the sale.
A continued slide in revenue for HTC since then suggests these products are gaining traction at least not on the scale once enjoyed by smartphones and it since had to slash prices to keep up with the likes of Facebook Oculus and Sony PlayStation VR.
The scale of the iOS and Android userbases will make building apps more tempting to developers have already used ARKit to show off demos that include virtual pets food ordering bar charts and yes fidget spinners.
Bloomberg reported earlier this year that Apple already has hundreds of engineers working on various projects which suggests that the company has big plans for the technology.
Some such as The New York Story X and Quartz are already looking ahead but many others are likely to be left behind as Nieman Lab editor Joshua Benton pointed out in our coverage of event last week What was once the job of the iPhone is now being distributed bit by bit to a constellation of smaller and more personal devices the Apple Watch on your wrist the AirPods in your ears the AR glasses that everyone expects Apple to bring forth in the next few years.
