by Alpha | May 5, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. A Top Puma Bio Exec Resigns Ahead of FDA Panel, Analysts Defend With Conflicting Stories
The surprise exit of Puma’s regulatory chief is sparking fears FDA will deal harshly with the company’s breast cancer drug neratinib.
2. New Mountain Capital’s Avantor to buy lab supplies company VWR
Private equity firm New Mountain Capital’s Avantor will buy VWR Corp (VWR.O) for about $4.38 billion, creating a global lab equipment giant supplying everything from beakers to microscopes to the healthcare and technology industries.
3. Wall Street’s M&A Chatter From May 4: General Mills, Brookdale Senior Living, Allergan-Paratek
The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Thursday, May 4, 2017. Allergan Said to Hold Takeover Talks with Paratek The Rumor: Paratek…
4. Warren Buffett has ‘revalued’ IBM downward, cites ‘big strong competitors’
Warren Buffett tells CNBC that he has “revalued” his view of IBM downward as the company has run into stiff competition.
5. Virtu CEO Aims to Be the Good Guy of High-Speed Trading
High-frequency trading firms are often cast as villains. Virtu Financial Chief Executive Douglas Cifu is determined to be seen as one of the good guys.
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The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in Charleston in and James Jackson who fatally stabbed an elderly black man with a sword in the streets of New York earlier this year.
Based in San Francisco Cloudflare operates more than data centers spread across the world serving as a sort of middleman for websites speeding up delivery of a content and protecting it from several kinds of attacks.
In a post the architect Andrew Auernheimer said he had personal relationships with people at Cloudflare and they had assured him the company would work to protect the site in a variety of ways including by not turning over data to European courts.
Many life insurance companies are exploring how to use additional data statistical models artificial intelligence and other techniques to help make quick decisions to ease the policy buying process and boost sales.
Time and testing will tell which new approaches prove effective says Robert Kerzner president and CEO of LIMRA a life insurance trade group.
Ricanek worked on facial recognition technology for the FBI Biometric Center of Excellence and is a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
The site will focus on general news coverage particularly politics at first he said but his goal is that it will cover more niche topics like Bitcoin and dog breeding.
We are hopeful to get some money from other sources but at this stage really focused on the crowdfunding because I think if people are willing to support this in concept even before we get started a good sign that going to be able to attract an audience.
Maybe you interview someone and you write the story in a very traditional way but you also publish the transcript and even the audio so that the community can actually if interested and I think many people will be check those against the story and say this is a fair quote not out of Or this person was joking when they said that but written it up as if they were serious and we should probably edit that to make it more clear that a There are lots of things like that no reason to exclude people from helping out with that sort of thing.
A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts according to a report published Wednesday.
Security researchers demonstrated this dark side of last year when they stalked US Representative Ted Lieu using nothing more than his cell phone number and access to an network.
In January thieves exploited weaknesses to bypass authentication banks used to prevent unauthorized withdrawals from online accounts the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Comedian Kevin Hart host Ellen DeGeneres and the comedy duo Rhett Link are producing unscripted shows that will debut this year YouTube will announce at an event for advertisers in New York Thursday.
mission at the annual Newfront presentations in New York where online companies are introducing their latest initiatives this week is to convince marketers to shift more ad money to the web from TV.
two biggest players in the Newfronts are YouTube and Hulu yet neither tells you exactly where your ad ran said Ben Winkler chief investment officer of OMD USA part of the Omnicom Group advertising company.
Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.
Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.
trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.
by Alpha | May 4, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Amazon and EU Reach Settlement Over E-Book Contracts
Amazon.com has reached an agreement with the European Union’s antitrust authorities over the EU’s probe into its electronic books contracts with publishers.
2. Incyte – This is Pivotal Science
Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled Today at 10:00 a.m. ET
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Every Google Account comes with today most advanced security features built in.
You can sign in with a password what most people choose or add Verification which sends a code to your phone as an extra security step.
Sign in to review the apps and sites approved to connect with your account and keep track of your saved passwords.
A massive phishing campaign targeting Google accounts ripped through the internet on Wednesday afternoon.
Several people online across a range of industries said they received emails containing what looked like a link to a Google Doc that appeared to come from someone they know.
We removed the fake pages pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.
A number of people have been victims of an apparent phishing attempt where hackers try to get you to click on sketchy links by an unknown organization starting around am PT today.
A Google spokesperson said in a statement that the company has disabled the accounts where the hack originated pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.
The attack hit an unknown number of employees within BuzzFeed and seems to also target people outside of the organization including school districts and universities.
On a platform nearly billion users strong the company have better anticipated the sheer statistical inevitability that someone would use Facebook to broadcast acts of violence and had more robust measures in place to make such harder to pull off.
When a Gizmodo reporter uncovered ideological bias in Trending Topics Facebook overcorrected by getting rid of human curators altogether relying on algorithms that pushed hoaxes as news.
When critics argued the company had a responsibility to exert editorial control over content proliferating on the site it failed to act until the spread of false stories helped shape the outcome of the presidential election.
With a constantly expanding mix of music uploaded to SoundCloud every day now made it easier to filter through it all.
The Upload is all about surfacing more of what into or what you might be and is the destination for a regularly updated bespoke playlist of new music relevant to you.
This new feature is another opportunity for creators on SoundCloud to get their music heard by our global community and a great way for listeners to be on the pulse of next now.
Incensed over Apple decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips Qualcomm plans to retaliate by asking a trade agency to ban the imports of iPhones according to a person familiar with the strategy.
The ITC is a agency in Washington that has the power to block the import of goods into the and processes cases more quickly than federal district courts the venue in which the companies are accusing each other of lying making threats and trying to create an illegal monopoly.
Qualcomm offered fair terms as required under rules governing the licensing of patents Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said when asked about the possibility the chipmaker could try to halt iPhone sales anywhere in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg today announced on earnings call that WhatsApp Status now has million daily users after only launching in.
is aware of the issue and working to fix it as soon as possible a spokesperson told TechCrunch and it expects service to be restored soon.
But deep traction in international markets where Snapchat caught on yet gave it an opportunity to be the first popular app to offer Stories in many countries.
At stake is a market that could one day be worth tens of billions of dollars and upend everything from the automotive industry to the business that Uber has pioneered to become the world most valuable private tech company.
An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.
Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.
At stake is a market that could one day be worth tens of billions of dollars and upend everything from the automotive industry to the business that Uber has pioneered to become the world most valuable private tech company.
An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.
Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.
by Alpha | May 3, 2017 | Business
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3. STRP:Company “to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Straight Path for $135.96 per share” $STRP
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1. SEC Probes Solar Companies Over Disclosure of Customer Cancellations
Federal regulators are investigating whether solar-energy companies are masking how many customers they are losing, according to a person familiar with the matter.
2. Bain, Carlyle, Thoma Bravo Are Among Bidders for Citrix
Private equity firms Bain Capital, Carlyle Group LP and Thoma Bravo are among bidders for cloud-services company Citrix Systems Inc., people familiar with the matter said.
3. Larry Dignan on Twitter
“NYT added 308,000 net digital news subscriptions in Q1.”
4. Strong demand at Taco Bell drives Yum Brands’ profit beat
Yum Brands Inc (YUM.N) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit due to strong global same-store sales growth, driven by robust demand at its Taco Bell restaurants and lower costs at its KFC chain.
5. No Gilead Sciences M&A Yet, but CEO Offers Hint of Deals to Come
Gilead’s first-quarter conference call delivered another opportunity for analysts to ask management, “Who are you going to buy and when?”
6. MakeMyTrip to raise $330 million from Naspers, Ctrip and others – ETtech
MakeMyTrip has unveiled aggressive plans, particularly in the hotels and packages segment, to consolidate its leadership position in the country.
7. Tesla Earnings: What to Watch
Tesla Inc.’s first-quarter financial results are expected to be released after the market closes on Wednesday.
8. Tesla is the most painful stock to be short so far in 2017
Traders short selling Tesla’s soaring stock have lost $3.7 billion this year, eclipsing the combined losses of traders shorting Apple, Amazon.com and Netflix.
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As is tradition Panos Panay handed out the Surface Laptop to an audience member to demonstrate the new burgundy color.
The Surface Laptop will ship in four colors platinum burgundy cobalt blue and graphite gold and it under three pounds in weight.
Microsoft has integrated vapor chambers into the aluminum finish on the rear of the device to help keep the Surface Laptop cool.
During a tour at sprawling Redmond Washington headquarters last month the Surface team showed off the evolution starting from the first more than a mashup of parts from older Microsoft the finished product.
The engineers and designers spent two years working on the machine creating multiple prototypes and inviting partners like Intel to set up shop right on campus.
The finished laptop milled from a slab of custom aluminum alloy has no screws or holes save for a pair of microphones to converse with Cortana voice assistant.
Between the cost in addition to the dock you also have to supply a mouse keyboard monitor and the Galaxy to make it all work and limitations which get into most people are still better served by a standard Windows or Mac laptop or even a Chromebook.
The browser does have its limits it struggles with the proprietary content management system we use at The Verge and Adobe Flash support is obviously out of the question but for the most part it loads pages just like Chrome or Safari does on a full computer.
More frustrating is that the system remember any of my window arrangements when I switch modes so every time I sit down at my desk and dock the phone I have to reopen my apps and rearrange my workspace.
Teachers also choose Windows for rich peripheral support including amazing new STEM lesson plans with Arduino boards Education tools to enable accessibility virtual reality headsets interactive whiteboards and more.
Together with OneNote Class Notebooks and new assignment and quiz experiences teachers can easily distribute content grade work personalize learning and communicate with students parents and staff.
STEM Saturdays bring classrooms to Microsoft Store and offer experiences like building a sensor that measures the flexion and extension of a finger to learn about the anatomy of a human hand.
Right now that can be done manually or by asking Siri to turn the volume up or down or skip to next song but it appears some way to have more control of media by touching or tapping the AirPods themselves is desirable.
What makes this question interesting is the fact that while our respondents mainly lean to early tech adoption we do not have a massive group of hardcore Apple fanatics.
Lastly we wanted to see how much our participants in the study still defaulted to old habits or trust AirPods enough to completely go wireless and fully ditch their wired headphones.
We are seeing a kind of delay in purchasing behavior that we think is a consequence of the number of rumors and reports about future products Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC Josh Lipton.
But Wall Street is counting on one key statistic to drive the company earnings higher later this year million iPhones may be set for an upgrade this fall according to venture capitalist Gene Munster.
Apple biggest Asian revenue source has been under pressure as the strength of the Hong Kong dollar dampens shopping from mainland China.
and slightly lower than the billion that Wall Street expected.
Once again Apple CEO Tim Cook touted the services business this time in the second paragraph of its earnings press release.
thrilled with the strong momentum of our Services business with our highest revenue ever for a Services revenue grew about billion versus the quarter the best of product segments.
The new version of its operating system Windows S will run only applications that have been vetted by Microsoft and placed in its online app store to prevent students from downloading software that could slow the performance of their computers.
Karon Weber demonstrated projects from the Hacking STEM Ian Bates for The New York Times The tools are designed to be easy enough for teachers to use since many schools do not have dedicated technology administrators.
Officials at Omaha Public Schools which spends about annually on Microsoft software and is investing million to buy students Windows devices welcomed the more comprehensive approach to the classroom.
About CEO Neil Vogel said the dot is a nod to the period that was core to the old logo while a dash is a typographic symbol used to move things toward next.
parent the company IAC decided to rebrand the publisher because while it had name recognition its articles were so broad that nobody thought of it as a resource for any one topic.
a new name that takes you out of the realm of a consumer offer and into one that speaks specifically to the advertising community that makes a lot of sense said Rick Wise the CEO of brand strategy firm Lippincott.
Between the cost in addition to the dock you also have to supply a mouse keyboard monitor and the Galaxy to make it all work and limitations which get into most people are still better served by a standard Windows or Mac laptop or even a Chromebook.
The browser does have its limits it struggles with the proprietary content management system we use at The Verge and Adobe Flash support is obviously out of the question but for the most part it loads pages just like Chrome or Safari does on a full computer.
More frustrating is that the system remember any of my window arrangements when I switch modes so every time I sit down at my desk and dock the phone I have to reopen my apps and rearrange my workspace.
by Alpha | May 1, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. TWTR:Is Bloomberg going to wind up being the savior of Twitter? $TWTR up 3.5% #premarket on news of Bloomberg partnership for streaming news.
2. ITCI:FDA to $ITCI – we can’t stop you from filing an NDA, but you might wanna think twice before doing so
3. JIVE:$JIVE Halted, news pending
4. OCN:$OCN: GapUP 0.15[+6.6%,fill:30%], PrvCl:2.29, PrvHi:2.36, 0NewHi, AtPivR2, 2:1Accel+, tf:0111111, medFlt:86M, HiPctSht[17%],
6. AEZS:$AEZS halt
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1. Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News
Twitter is joining forces with Bloomberg to create a service that will stream news produced solely for the social-media company 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
2. Exclusive: Blackstone’s GSO snaps up J. Crew debt in restructuring gambit
GSO Capital Partners, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP’s (BX.N) credit arm, is acquiring more of J. Crew Group Inc’s debt, hoping for a profitable trade that could also give the U.S. fashion retailer more time to stave off bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter said.
3. Dish Network Profit, Revenue Fall; No Letup In Subscriber Losses
Dish Network’s adjusted Q1 adjusted profit fell 11% but was still above analyst estimates. Dish said it lost about 143,000 net pay-TV subscribers.
4. May Day rallies across U.S. to target Trump immigration policy
Labor unions and immigrant advocacy groups will lead May Day rallies in cities across the United States on Monday, with organizers expecting larger-than-usual turnouts to protest the immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
5. Urban Outfitters Board Slammed by Group for ‘Extreme Insularity’
An Urban Outfitters Inc. investor group is urging shareholders to vote against the re-election of two directors, saying the board’s “extreme insularity” has contributed to its weak performance.
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Continue reading the main story It also ends opposition hopes that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may ease the crackdown and build greater national consensus after his narrow victory in a recent referendum to expand the power of his office.
The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.
In another restriction announced this weekend the government decreed that television channels could no longer broadcast dating programs a staple on Turkish daytime TV and a major source of advertising revenue.
Continue reading the main story It also ends opposition hopes that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may ease the crackdown and build greater national consensus after his narrow victory in a recent referendum to expand the power of his office.
The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.
In another restriction announced this weekend the government decreed that television channels could no longer broadcast dating programs a staple on Turkish daytime TV and a major source of advertising revenue.
Sexual harassment bullying and racist stereotyping are common in the technology industry creating a culture that drives underrepresented employees out of their jobs new research has found.
A large tech firm that pays engineers an average of could lose due to their workplace culture pushing employees out the survey said.
A report analyzed the reasons why tech workers leave their jobs and found a common thread of sexual harassment bullying and stereotyping.
Continue reading the main story It also ends opposition hopes that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may ease the crackdown and build greater national consensus after his narrow victory in a recent referendum to expand the power of his office.
The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.
In another restriction announced this weekend the government decreed that television channels could no longer broadcast dating programs a staple on Turkish daytime TV and a major source of advertising revenue.
Lotinga says that while there has been an increase in sales of ebooks and subscriptions in areas such as education and academic titles there are certain types of consumer books people prefer to read in paper format.
Issues with a slowdown in ereaders being bought linked to the rise of smartphones has contributed to the decline in ebook popularity and renewed surge in book sales.
Despite this success Lotinga warned that with Europe the largest market for UK books accounting for of international sales it is imperative that Theresa Brexit deal protects the publishing industry.
It made me feel not valued excluded with no opportunities for White Female Engineer Women reported a range of experiences from being passed over for promotions to stereotyping and harassment.
I felt Hispanic Female Developer Underrepresented people of color were seeking both better compensation and job promotions AND more meaningful balanced work within a positive and inclusive environment.
Better pay Greater balance and schedule flexibility Create a more positive and respectful work environment Improved company leadership Change in job responsibilities and requirements.
With slowing growth it needed a big change to reinvigorate its aging app and make it easier for people who browse tweets constantly.
But as Snapchat became the defacto teen messaging app and everyone that everyone knew signed up courtesy and social contract obliged people to follow even their more boring acquaintainces.
Algorithmically sorting the feed based on whose Stories you typically watch and who you chat with could make it much easier to drop into Snapchat and immediately get the most delight per minute.
ET After a frenzied when venture money gushed into apps providing home services from meal delivery to massages funding for startups was supposed to enter what industry insiders called.
For some of those darlings capital did freeze up forcing them to fold shrink or merge with competitors.
industry is suffering a different headache too much money.
Continue reading the main story It also ends opposition hopes that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may ease the crackdown and build greater national consensus after his narrow victory in a recent referendum to expand the power of his office.
The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.
In another restriction announced this weekend the government decreed that television channels could no longer broadcast dating programs a staple on Turkish daytime TV and a major source of advertising revenue.
Earlier today the NSA announced its intentions to limit a surveillance technique that had a nasty side effect of sweeping up communications to and from Americans.
In a rare unprompted press statement the NSA explained that it would halt upstream internet communications that are solely a foreign intelligence target restricting its surveillance to messages sent or received by foreign intelligence targets.
TechCrunch spoke with General Michael Hayden former director of the NSA and CIA about how the shift will be implemented and the reasoning behind the surprise decision.
by Alpha | Apr 28, 2017 | Pre-Market
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5. CVX:$CVX Chevron Q1 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS Ex-Gain: $1.10 -Revenue: $33.42B
6. XOM:#BREAKING: Exxon Mobil $XOM Q1 Revenue, $63.29B vs. $67.34B expected
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1. Sarepta CEO Exits Along With a Sanofi Director, So Let’s Speculate About a Possible Deal
The timing of these two departures could be coincidental and mean nothing, or they might signal Sanofi’s interest in acquiring Sarepta.
2. ‘Get off of Twitter’: As Trump nears Day 100, some stirrings of discontent
Some of his supporters fret that President Donald Trump is backing himself into a corner with promises that can’t be kept. Others lament he is not pulling America from international conflicts as he vowed – or say he should “get off of Twitter.”
3. US Q1 GDP grew at 0.7% pace vs. 1.2% estimate
The government released its first reading on first-quarter GDP on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a rate of 1.2 percent.
4. With Exondys 51 approved, Sarepta chief Ed Kaye to bow out | FierceBiotech
He was for a long time an interim chief executive, then a full CEO and president, but Ed Kaye, who did what looked impossible a year ago and got Sarepta’s controversial Duchenne med approved, will now step down later this year.
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SAN FRANCISCO Reuters Facebook Inc acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries and outlined new measures it is taking to combat what it calls that go well beyond the phenomenon known as fake news.
Facebook said its security team would now fight information operations which it regards as a more complex problem than traditional hackers and scammers by suspending or deleting false accounts after identifying them with a combination of machine learning and intelligence analysis.
Facebook said it would go after amplifier accounts based on behavioral analysis that shows signs of inauthenticity such as sudden bursts of activity or repeated posting of the same material without regard to the politics of the content.
The music legend loved idea a Shark Tank competition for new apps and before long persuaded him and TV producer Ben Silverman to pitch it to Eddy Cue who runs Apple services business and is the conduit to Hollywood.
In the coming months Apple Music plans to start streaming Carpool Karaoke a spinoff of James popular celebrity singalong segment one episode will see John Legend and Alicia Keys driving around and belting out their hits.
Like many tech companies Apple long resisted getting into the content game opting instead to sell other music TV shows and movies and making money flogging hardware.
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries and outlined new measures it is taking to combat what it calls that go well beyond the phenomenon known as fake news.
In a report and summary of response plans on its website on Thursday Facebook describes and subtle efforts by nations and other organizations to spread misleading information and falsehoods for geopolitical goals.
Facebook said its security team would now fight information operations which it regards as a more complex problem than traditional hackers and scammers by suspending or deleting false accounts after identifying them with a combination of machine learning and intelligence analysis.
Image AP RisbergBack in January Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was proud of the impact that we were able to have on civic discourse doubling down on his stance that the rise of misinformation spread of outright propaganda and rapid erosion of trust in the fourth estate were problems but his.
Image screengrab from DiscordWhether through coordinated action by a mix of legitimate and illegitimate accounts to dominate conversation as in the case of or using Twitter bot armies like the one commanded by the mysterious MicroChip to push hashtag campaigns to the masses malicious groups have known how to exploit social networks with terrifying efficiency.
Facebook will continue to contribute in this area by offering training materials cooperating with government cybersecurity agencies looking to harden their and social media activity against external attacks and deploying communications designed to reinforce observance of strong security practices.
At Google Foster stepped into a new role vice president of hardware product development working on the company Pixel smartphone and Home speaker an Echo competitor.
The hardware division also competes with Apple Amazon and other companies building devices tied to intelligent software like digital assistants that could upend existing models for media and advertising markets that Google now leads.
Earlier this week German publication WinFuture reported that it uncovered evidence of three planned Google devices in Android code information online.
If it happens this time the new Apple product would compete with offerings from big banks as well as PayPal its subsidiary Venmo as well as Square Cash in the increasingly competitive world of digital.
spent heavily in insuring their cards were top of wallet when they all built and rolled out Apple Pay said Cherian Abraham a digital payments executive at Experian.
Square Cash service offers a similar virtual debit card and CEO Jack Dorsey talked about this very use case at a recent Recode Code Commerce event.
by Alpha | Apr 27, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. ABBV:$ABBV revenues were $6.538B vs. $6.484B consensus forecast; adj EPS: $1.28 vs. $1.26 consensus.
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5. SNCR:*SYNCHRONOSS CEO, CFO STEPPING DOWN $SNCR cc: @RodBoydILM @SIRF_Report
11. DPZ:Now they’re just showing off. Domino’s 1Q domestic comps up 10.2%. $DPZ
12. PFE:$PFE next-gen ALK/ROS1 Inhibitor, Lorlatinib, Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation from FDA for ALK-Positive NSCLC
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1. TESARO Initiates Registrational Development Program for Anti-PD-1 Antibody TSR-042
TSR-042 is the first TESARO immuno-oncology candidate to enter a registration programOngoing clinical trial expanded to enroll patients with endometrial cancerPatient-centric administration schedule with every 6 week dosing WALTHAM, Mass., April 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TESARO, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRO), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutica…
2. Ford’s Profit Falls 35% on Recall Costs, Weaker U.S. Sales
Ford’s first-quarter net income fell 35%, dented by safety-recall expenses, higher engineering and commodity costs, and weaker sales in the U.S.
3. ECB Keeps Policy Settings Unchanged Awaiting Political Clarity
The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at record lows and maintained its quantitative-easing program as officials monitor the economic recovery and the risk of political turbulence in the region.
4. Acceleron Provides Clinical Development Updates on Luspatercept Program
Acceleron Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:XLRN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovat
5. Dow Chemical profit beats as consumer market focus pays off
Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N) reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly profit as the seeds and chemical maker benefited from its consumer-markets focus, and said it has had “substantive discussions” with regulators over its merger with DuPont (DD.N).
6. Brad Loncar on Twitter
“$BMY – even some drug named Yervoy showed some nice growth again.”
7. Bristol-Myers Squibb Reports First Quarter Financial Results
Increases First Quarter Revenues 12% to $4.9 Billion Posts First Quarter GAAP EPS of $0.94 and Non-GAAP EPS of $0.84 Achieves Key Regulatory Milestones For Opdivo in the U.S. and Europe Advances Immuno-Oncology Collaborations with Incyte and Exelixis to include Phase 3 Trials Increases 2017 GAAP and Non-GAAP EPS Guidance Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) today reported results for the first quarter of 2017, which were highlighted by strong sales for key products Opdivo and Eliquis, regulatory approval for Opdivo in advanced bladder cancer in the U.S., positive opinions from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for advanced bladder and head and neck cancers in Europe, and strategic transactions in oncology that further strengthened the company’s pipeline. “During the first quarter we delivered strong sales and earnings growth, achieved important regulatory milestones for Opdivo in the U.S. and Europe and presented important new data across our Immuno-Oncology
8. dough on Twitter
“STIFEL cheat sheet for $CELG earnings today”
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Pai speech was rife with hyperbole inaccuracies and misstatements Georgetown Law lecturer Andrew Schwartzman an attorney who specializes in media and telecommunications policy told Ars.
To remind people that ISPs have blocked Internet content in numerous instances advocacy group Free Press published an updated list of such incidents featuring the likes of Comcast AT T and Verizon.
The Internet Association a trade group whose members include Amazon Facebook Google Microsoft Netflix and other Web companies countered arguments that net neutrality rules have inhibited network investment.
But as The Nilay Patel and former FCC Counselor Gigi Sohn point out companies change their terms of service all the time and as yet we heard of anything in plan that would stop them from doing so.
As Sohn explains name for the Pai Plan might be Trust Hardly a comforting thought in a market where ISPs face little competition and serve as the sole gatekeeper to the I.
The net neutrality rules are crucial for the Internet they help make sure that ISPs run their networks in ways that are fair to users and innovators alike.
You can add a note like spot add the amount of time left before the meter expires and even get a reminder alert minutes before it does save an image of your parking spot and send your parking location to friends.
This is in addition to the automatic parking detection you might have already noticed in Google Maps for iOS.
If you connect to your car using USB audio or bluetooth your parking spot will be automatically added to the map when you disconnect and exit the vehicle.
Photos can be saved to an ongoing look book that will log what users wear every day so as to not duplicate outfits and the pics can be shared easily on social networks or through texts.
Taking a video allows users to quickly replay the clip on their phone so they can see their outfit from every angle in the moment making it easier to decide on what to wear.
Echo Look also comes equipped with a machine learning feature called Style Check allowing users to take two pictures of two separate outfits and compare the two in order to make the best choice.
The marketing copy on the Echo Look product page includes a hodgepodge of tech buzzwords like computer vision and machine learning.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has previously expressed his intrigue with the power of combining human taste with computer recommendations to make styling decisions.
Recode previously reported the company is working on an Alexa device that would have phone call and intercom features that could include a video camera.
Among them are a feed ranked by personalization algorithms rather than by chronology live streaming the ability to post photo galleries and a controversial new app design and logo.
More than percent of users are now outside the United States and the service is growing especially quickly in parts of Asia and South America that are dogged by underpowered Android phones and slow cellular networks.
For instance after Instagram began Stories the show feature it took from Snapchat it spent a month adding speed improvements for international markets.
Even as he acknowledged the importance of an open internet FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday set his telecom agency on a course to scrap the tough broad net neutrality protections imposed by the Obama administration.
During a major speech in Washington Pai outlined the need for a total revision of existing federal rules that seek to prevent companies like AT T Charter and Verizon from blocking or slowing down web content including the movie or music offerings from their competitors.
On Wednesday though Pai told a different story In his speech he attributed the net neutrality rules to politics even alleging that Democrats sought to implement them to motivate voters after the party faltered in the congressional elections.
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