by Alpha | Mar 6, 2017 | Pre-Market
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2. AA, GS:$AA upgraded to Buy from at $GS chart came off of channel Support 35-36 has room to top channel line at 40-42 use 34.50 as a STOP
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1. IONS:$IONS and Akcea Announce Positive Results from Pivotal Study of Volanesorsen in Patients with Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome
2. CNCE:$CNCE halt
5. TGTX:$TGTX halt
7. NOVN:$PTCT $NOVN $TGTX File…file…file… All these bio turds are pushing filings with low quality data, you know FDA will approve everything now…
9. DRYS:$DRYS- DryShips Exercises Second Option to Acquire a Very Large Gas Carrier With a 5 Year Time Charter Attached to an Oil Major
12. VRTX:$VRTX to Acquire CTP-656 from $CNCE for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
13. POLA:$POLA 2016 Net Sales up 233% to Record $22.8 Million, Driving 2016 Net Income to Record $4.4 Million
14. TSRO:TESARO Inc $TSRO US 3/6/2017 08:40am Raymond James and Associates I Conference could be interesting as many talk M&A on this one
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1. Bio Stocks™ on Twitter
“$TGTX Announces Positive Topline Data from Phase 3 GENUINE Study of TG-1101 in Combination with Ibrutinib in Patients with High Risk CLL”
2. j l on Twitter
“$PTCT got a PDUFA for translarna. Wow”
3. TG Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Data from Phase 3 GENUINE Study of TG-1101 in Combination with Ibrutinib in Patients with High Risk Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Study met its primary endpoint, with TG-1101 (ublituximab) plus ibrutinib increasing Overall Response Rate (ORR) by >70% over ibrutinib alone
4. dough on Twitter
“FBR Just out $AUPH”
5. Verizon’s Unlimited Data Offer Puts Its Reputation for Reliability at Risk
The decision to let users stream and download at will threatens profit margins and puts additional strain on the company’s network.
6. KKR Gets Record $13.9 Billion for North American Buyout Fund
KKR & Co. amassed $13.9 billion for its latest private equity fund, the most ever raised for a buyout pool focused on North America.
7. j l on Twitter
“$VRTX got whatever other CF drugs $CNCE was developing as well”
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To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
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To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
An examination of the disruption effort based on interviews with officials of the Obama and Trump administrations as well as a review of extensive but obscure public records found that the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs.
Martin Dempsey the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the program saying that directed energy and electronic attack a reference to such things as malware lasers and signal jamming were all becoming important new adjuncts to the traditional ways of deflecting enemy strikes.
Secret Push and New Doubts Not long after General Dempsey made his public announcement Obama and his defense secretary Ashton Carter began calling meetings focused on one question Could a crash program slow the march toward an intercontinental ballistic missile.
An examination of the disruption effort based on interviews with officials of the Obama and Trump administrations as well as a review of extensive but obscure public records found that the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs.
Martin Dempsey the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the program saying that directed energy and electronic attack a reference to such things as malware lasers and signal jamming were all becoming important new adjuncts to the traditional ways of deflecting enemy strikes.
Secret Push and New Doubts Not long after General Dempsey made his public announcement Obama and his defense secretary Ashton Carter began calling meetings focused on one question Could a crash program slow the march toward an intercontinental ballistic missile.
To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
On Monday Kalanick asked SVP of engineering Amit Singhal to resign after learning that he did not disclose that he was the subject of a sexual harassment investigation at his previous employer Google.
It started with a social media campaign to deleteUber over claims that the company attempted to profit off the backs of protesting taxi drivers largely unfair but which caused more than users to abandon the app.
Then there was the promotion in France that paired riders with Also Kalanick once made an idiotic pun about the Uber name calling it to an Esquire reporter since it helped him get dates.
Instead of forcing users to talk with a bot developers can choose to create a persistent menu that allows for multiple nested items as a better way of displaying all the capabilities in a simple interface.
Instead the larger update to version includes things like expanded sharing capabilities that could help bots gain more exposure tools to better match customer lists to user base a handful of new APIs improved analytics and other tweaks and features catering to specific needs.
Facebook meanwhile is quickly becoming one of the largest tech companies without a clear path to the voice future where others like Apple Google Amazon and Samsung are today intensely competing.
For instance games like Ultimate Chicken Horse let Twitch viewers vote on the hazards that will appear in a level giving them a part to play in the outcome of a match.
Better yet Lumberyard offers all kinds of integrations with Twitch including a recent service called Metastream which presents Major League statistics to the viewers of an online multiplayer match.
Built on Amazon Web Services Lumberyard and offering deep Twitch integration including that new Metastream feature Frazzini says that Breakaway is meant to prove to developers that the company knows what it talking about when it comes to games.
To build a case against the company officers like England posed as riders opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.
In a statement Uber said program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service whether people aiming to physically harm drivers competitors looking to disrupt our operations or opponents who collude with officials on secret meant to entrap.
Uber which lets people hail rides using a smartphone app operates multiple types of services including a luxury Black Car offering in which drivers are commercially licensed.
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by Alpha | Mar 1, 2017 | Pre-Market
We went long $VXX Puts at close yesterday and they are set to open up nicely, also net long $WYNN, $TSLA, $NVDA, $VLO, $PCLN to name a few..
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1. ACAD:$ACAD PT raised to $36 from $31 at Leerink
2. LOW:EARNINGS ALERT: Lowe’s EPS beats $0.86 vs. $0.79 • revs. beat $15.784B vs. $15.386B $LOW
3. BBY:$BBY Best Buy Q4 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.95 -Revenue: $13.48B
4. AGIO:$AGIO $CELG FDA Accepts NDA and Grants Priority Review for Enasidenib in Relapsed or Refractory AML with an IDH2 Mutation. Pdufa Aug. 30 17′
6. SRPT:$SRPT PT cut to $43 from $68 at Piper
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1. Celgene Corporation on Twitter
“#NEWS FDA accepts Celgene/Agios NDA filing for Priority Review 4 a potential treatment for relapsed/refractory #AML
2. Amicus CEO John Crowley, Not His Daughter Megan, Might Compel Trump to Make Big Changes at FDA
Absent specific policy details, Trump’s speech leaves investors guessing about his real plans for the FDA and the drug approval process. He has not yet named an FDA commissioner.
3. j l on Twitter
“$ITCI meeting with FDA in late March”
4. j l on Twitter
“$MRK has dumped its BET inhibitor from Oncoethix acquisition”
5. In Video, Uber’s CEO Argues With a Driver Over Falling Fares
Travis Kalanick tells a driver to take responsibility for his problems and boasts about a tough culture.
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Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated.
Nearly three years have passed since Google announced it would offer an encryption for Gmail a potentially massive shift in the privacy options of a piece of software used by more than a billion people.
And Somogyi points out that his engineers have also had to build and refine an entirely new library of crypto code in javascript a necessary stepping stone for secure encryption tools and one widely believed to be unworkable a few years ago.
Its only serious effort in the last year was to offer encryption in its Allo messenger a new service with an infinitesimal fraction of the user base of existing chat platforms like Google Hangouts and Gchat.
The site resembles the landing page for Hangouts but without the options to place a phone call or start a text chat.
Based on the screenshots and the App detail page it appears Meet is meant to serve as a alternative to Hangouts the messaging voice and video chat application.
As of the time of writing Meet has not officially replaced Hangouts in the G Suite lineup of products according to the main webpage for online business applications found at.
The top trending attractions on a recent afternoon included clips of a gymnasium roof collapsing in the Czech Republic a colossal alligator lumbering across a footpath in Florida some North Korean refugees digging into American barbecue for the first time and a guy demonstrating how to wash a car with a baby.
Maddening disruptions tend to take place during the biggest programming events when surges in viewership can reduce everything from World Cup soccer matches to Game of Thrones season finales into spinning buffer wheels of outrage and recrimination.
Through the deals with Fox CBS NBC and ABC whose parent company Disney owns ESPN YouTube TV subscribers will be able to watch pro and college football basketball soccer baseball hockey tennis and golf.
clear this video is a reflection of the criticism received is a stark reminder that I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up.
When you receive a pack have the option to request a free flu shot from a registered up to people.
October by John Brownstein PhD Uber advisor in health careCategories Headlines Impact.
The outage is due to error rates with in according to AWS service health dashboard which is where the company also says working on the issue without initially revealing any further details.
Update PM PT AWS says seeing for object retrievals listing and which means probably seeing avatars and other visuals assets come back in some spots.
Update PM PT is now fully recovered in terms of the retrieval listing and deletion of existing objects according to the AWS status page and now working on restoring normal operation for the addition of new items to storage.
Its billion transistors deliver a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency and it bristles with NVIDIA CUDA cores and a massive frame buffer running at an unheard of.
NVIDIA designed the GeForce GTX Ti to handle the graphical demands of gaming and deliver unrivaled VR experiences told the crowd.
Audience members gasped when Huang revealed they were all rendered on our GTX Ti running at more than GHz and a temperature of just degrees centigrade an unprecedented feat.
Which means also get networks like Fox News ESPN and Bravo YouTube execs say the base package will include about three dozen channels.
YouTube base price puts it squarely in the same bracket as its competitors AT DirectTV Now for instance also launched with a offer.
a bit of going on here YouTube first broke through the popular consciousness as an video repository where you could watch unauthorized versions of TV clips like Night.
UPDATE Amazon Web Services has fixed all the issues related to the cloud storage outage Tuesday.
UPDATE The online world is starting to spin again as Amazon is fixing the problems that caused error at its data centers in Virginia knocking out many prominent websites and apps Tuesday morning.
We continue to work on recovery for adding new objects to and expect to start seeing improved error rates within the.
CNBC news Updates:
Lowe’s — The home improvement retailer reported an extremely upbeat quarter, much as its larger rival Home Depot did last month. Lowe’s earned an adjusted 86 cents per share for the fourth quarter, 7 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat forecasts, and the comparable-store sales increase of 5.1 percent was more than double consensus estimates. Lowe’s also forecast 2017 earnings of $4.64 per share, compared to estimates of $4.53 a share.
Best Buy — The electronics retailer reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.95 per share, beating estimates of $1.67 a share. Revenue was slightly below forecasts, and Best Buy also announced a 21 percent dividend hike and a $5 billion share repurchase program. The stock is under pressure, however, after Best Buy gave a weaker-than-expected earnings and sales outlook for the current quarter.
Vitamin Shoppe — The nutritional products retailer fell 4 cents a share shy of estimates, with adjusted quarterly profit of 36 cents per share. Revenue missed estimates, as well. Comparable-store sales dropped 2.2 percent, a bigger decline than the 1.8 percent anticipated by analysts. The company called its results disappointing in a difficult environment but said its initiatives should lead to improvement in the future.
Alere — The drugmaker said it would be unable to file its annual report in a timely manner, due to a review of revenue recognition at its Korean and Japanese locations. The review could impact accounting for certain transactions over the past few years, the company said.
Micron Technology — Goldman Sachs upgraded the chipmaker’s shares to “buy” from “neutral,” saying the company will benefit from increases in memory chip pricing, among other factors.
Salesforce.com — The business software maker beat estimates by 4 cents a share, with adjusted quarterly profit of 3 cents per share. Revenue was in line with Street forecasts, but the company did predict current-quarter profit below Street estimates. Overall, Salesforce has been seeing strong demand for its cloud-based software.
Time Inc. — The publisher of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and other magazines has asked suitors to submit final acquisition bids by next week, according to a Bloomberg report.
Tribune Media — The broadcasting company has been approached by rival Sinclair Broadcasting about a possible combination, according to a Reuters report.
Intel — Bernstein downgraded the chip maker’s shares to “underperform” from “market perform,” in a report that says “the world seems to be moving against Intel’s strengths.”
Etsy — Etsy lost 19 cents per share, compared to forecasts of a 2 cents per share profit. The online craft seller did see revenue come in above estimates. Etsy is adding users and seeing revenue grow, but its expenses are increasing, as well.
Ambarella — Ambarella reported adjusted quarterly profit of 92 cents per share, 18 cents a share above estimates. Revenue exceeded forecasts, as well. The chipmaker gave weak current-quarter revenue guidance, however. Ambarella — a key supplier to camera maker GoPro — has been hurt by declines in the wearable sports camera market.
Palo Alto Networks — Palo Alto came in 1 cent a share above estimates, with adjusted quarterly profit of 63 cents per share. The cybersecurity company’s revenue missed forecasts, however, and it gave weaker-than-expected current-quarter revenue guidance. CEO Mark McLaughlin said the company has had what he calls “execution challenges.”
Weight Watchers — Weight Watchers earned 20 cents per share for its latest quarter, 2 cents a share above estimates. Revenue missed forecasts. The diet plan provider did give a strong 2017 forecast, however, after its subscriber rolls increased by 10 percent during its most recent quarter.
Alphabet — Alphabet’s YouTube operation announced plans for a live television service to be unveiled later this year for $35 per month. The service will feature the four major networks as well as additional well-known cable channels.
Veeva — Veeva reported adjusted quarterly profit of 22 cents per share, a 5 cent a share beat. Revenue also topped forecasts but the provider of software for drug companies also gave a forecast for the year that falls partly below expectations, pressuring its shares.
Hershey — Hershey will cut its workforce by 15 percent, mostly outside the United States. Hershey is implementing a plan designed to grow its flagship candy business and is expanding its snacks lineup.
Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts — These are among the casino stocks likely to benefit following reports that Macau gaming revenue rose for the seventh month in a row and hit a two-year high during February.
Craft Brew Alliance — The beer maker was sued by two California residents who said they were fooled into believing the company’s Kona beer was made in Hawaii.
by Alpha | Feb 28, 2017 | Pre-Market
We Saw big put buyers on Target $TGT last week in Seeking Options Chat Room premium rooms
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1. TGT:$TGT Target Q4 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $1.45 -Revenue: $20.7B
4. ALQA:$ALQA halt
5. CRBP:$CRBP offering @ $7 Corbus Pharmaceuticals Announces $27.2 Million Registered Direct Offering
6. KITE:*TRADING HALTED: Halt News Pending
7. DPZ:$DPZ – Domestic comps +12.2%; International +4.3% – crazy, they keep on delivering
9. CELG:$CELG PT raised to $155 from $147 at Jefferies
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1. Kite Announces Positive Topline Primary Results of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel from First Pivotal CAR-T Trial in Patients with Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Kite Pharma, Inc., (Nasdaq:KITE) today announced positive data from the primary analysis of ZUMA-1 for its lead CAR-T candidate, axicabtagene ciloleuc
2. Kite Pharma CAR-T Cancer Therapy Shows Strong, Durable Effect in Lymphoma Patients
Kite intends to submit a marketing application for KTE-C19 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the end of March.
3. j l on Twitter
“$CEMP fails solithromycin Gonorrhea study”
4. U.S. Growth Pace Unrevised as Consumption, Investment Diverge
The U.S. economy grew in the fourth quarter at an unrevised 1.9 percent pace, as slower investment by businesses and state and local agencies offset stronger household purchases.
5. Target shares plunge on earnings shortfall and weak outlook on sales
Target has been struggling to keep up with Wal-Mart.
6. dough on Twitter
“@AndyBiotech $KITE 20 percent neurotox and CRS 13 percent”
7. Bio Stocks™ on Twitter
“$KITE Announces Positive Topline Results of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel from CAR-T Trial in Patients with Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”
8. Apple’s next iPhone will have a curved screen
Apple has decided to adopt a flexible OLED display for one model of the new iPhone coming out this year and has ordered sufficient components to enable mass production, people familiar with the matter said.
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The push to snuff out leaks to the press comes after a week in which President Donald Trump strongly criticized the media for using unnamed sources in stories and expressed growing frustration with the unauthorized sharing of information by individuals in his administration.
For Trump a cable TV addict who has long obsessively tracked news coverage about himself the ongoing turmoil in the White House communications wing threatens to derail the media narrative that will help to define the opening days of his presidency.
Several other people interviewed for the post including Jarrod Agen a spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence and Scott Jennings a former political aide in the George Bush White House.
Mozilla is growing experimenting more and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy as a global public resource open and accessible to all.
believe that the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content is key to keeping the internet healthy by fighting against the rising tide of centralization and walled gardens.
Today hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers tablets and mobile devices.
The surge in the use of technology enabled by free smartphone apps such as WhatsApp and Signal could skirt or violate laws that require government records to be preserved and the business to be conducted in official channels several ethics experts say.
More than workers from several agencies are using encrypted cellphone apps to arrange nighttime and weekend meetings at homes in the area to discuss their potential resistance to Trump said Danielle Brian executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
For both the Trump team and the career employees encrypted apps like Signal WhatsApp Confide and Wickr make it easier to communicate in secret by leaving snoops with unreadable strings of text thwarting any hackers or government investigators who might get hold of the messages.
The surge in the use of technology enabled by free smartphone apps such as WhatsApp and Signal could skirt or violate laws that require government records to be preserved and the business to be conducted in official channels several ethics experts say.
More than workers from several agencies are using encrypted cellphone apps to arrange nighttime and weekend meetings at homes in the area to discuss their potential resistance to Trump said Danielle Brian executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
For both the Trump team and the career employees encrypted apps like Signal WhatsApp Confide and Wickr make it easier to communicate in secret by leaving snoops with unreadable strings of text thwarting any hackers or government investigators who might get hold of the messages.
Soon when you watch a stream see an option to purchase below the video on the channel page if the game or content is available on Twitch.
Any purchase over will earn you a Twitch Crate a digital loot box with a special reward like a emote a chat badge or some Bits.
The standard agreement with partnered streamers is of the revenue generated from the sale of games and items that are purchased from their channel page.
We protected the marketplace by offering the support of a care management team the personalization of profiles with photos and video interviews a robust algorithm to control matching and dispatching lengthy reviews from past clients and a rating system to ensure quality.
Rather than continuing to push the boulder up the hill and risk a spectacular failure we will attempt to leverage our talented team unique experience and technology IP to build a more sustainable healthcare business outside of home care.
But Mike and I deeply believe families across the country need better access to affordable home care and with increasing regulation and thriving technology vendors it would be irresponsible for us to continue down this path with unlikely probability of liquidation.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that he expect the commission to review AT purchase of Time Warner clearing the way for the Justice Department to very likely approve the deal.
While President Trump said on the campaign trail that his administration not the AT Warner merger he touched on the issue in the months since the election and even had what appeared to be a cheery meeting with AT T CEO Randall Stephenson in.
no indication so far that his Justice Department will move to block the merger and with the FCC declining review the toughest regulator of the deal is now out of the picture.
ET YouTube viewers are now watching more than billion hours of videos a day threatening to eclipse television viewership a milestone fueled by the Google aggressive embrace of artificial intelligence to recommend videos.
YouTube surpassed the figure which is far larger than previously reported late last year.
It represents a increase since YouTube said when it started building algorithms that.
Mozilla is growing experimenting more and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy as a global public resource open and accessible to all.
believe that the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content is key to keeping the internet healthy by fighting against the rising tide of centralization and walled gardens.
Today hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers tablets and mobile devices.
by Alpha | Feb 27, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. CEMP:$CEMP upgraded to Buy at Roth
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1. GS, TSLA:$TSLA downgraded to a SELL at $GS stcks testing Support at $250 in pre-mkt, next Support at 240. $GS clients must be short
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1. BID:#BREAKING: Sothebys $BID Q4 Adjusted Earnings Per Share beats estimates, $1.35 vs. $1.17 expected
3. EXEL:$EXEL and $BMY Enter Clinical Collaboration for Late-Stage Combination Trial in First-Line Renal Cell Carcinoma
4. PIRS:$PIRS Signs 1st Partnership for Anemia Drug PRS-080, Granting Exclusive Option in Japan to ASKA Pharmaceutical
6. TSRO:$TSRO downgraded to Neutral from Outperform by Baird. PT $182
7. CEMP:$CEMP upgraded to Buy at Roth. PT $8 from $2.5
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1. Advaxis Inks Deal with Sellas to Develop New Cancer Immunotherapy | Xconomy
Advaxis and Sellas Life Sciences Group, two companies that have pursued different ways of prompting the body’s immune system to fight cancer, are now hopin
2. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Drops After Reporting 4Q Loss
Shares of BioCryst (BCRX) fell double digits despite topping analysts’ 4Q expectations.
3. BioCryst Reports Positive Interim Results from its APeX-1 Trial
Reduction of 63% in overall attack rate in HAE patients with severe disease (p=0.006)
4. Amber Kanwar on Twitter
“Goldman cuts Tesla to SELL with a word to bulls out there $TSLA #notablecalls”
5. Watch These 8 Huge Call Purchases In Monday Trade
Benzinga’s newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga…
6. La Jolla Pharma drug raises blood pressure in late-stage study of shock patients
The company intends to submit a marketing application for LJPC-501 to the FDA in the second half of the year, pending the outcome of a meeting with regulators.
7. Gogo Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Financial Results
CHICAGO, Feb. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Gogo Inc. (Nasdaq: GOGO), the leading global provider of in-flight broadband connectivity and connectivity-enabled services to commercial and business aviation, today …
8. Stemline clinical hold unlikely on lead candidate, says H.C. Wainwright
H.C. Wainwright analyst Raghuram Selvaraju believes a death due to capillary leak syndrome is unlikely to lead to a clinical hold on SL-401, Stemline Therapeutics’ lead candidate in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, a rare blood cancer. The FDA is unlikely to place a clinical hold on the ongoing trial, since capillary leak syndrome is a known safety risk with SL-401 and given the fact that the only agent in this class to receive regulatory approval, Ontak, is also associated with this side-effect, Selvaraju tells investors in a research note. He reiterates a Buy rating on Stemline with a $34 price target. The stock closed Friday up 40c to $6.85.
9. Warren Buffett, on CNBC, says bought about 120 million Apple shares in 2017
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), told CNBC on Monday that his conglomerate had purchased about 120 million shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL.O) in 2017 and that U.S. stocks were not in a “bubble territory.”
10. Buffett Says Apple Stake Boosted to More Than $18 Billion
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has increased its stake in iPhone maker Apple Inc. to about 133 million shares, Chairman Warren Buffett told CNBC.
11. At Arrakis, Gilman Teams With Biogen Vets to Target RNA With Pills | Xconomy
A year after selling his latest biotech startup—the second since 2012—Michael Gilman is back. He emerged today as chairman and CEO of a two-year-old st
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After its launch in Nokia sold more than million models of its indestructible candybar turning Snake into a cultural icon and searing that tinkling ringtone permanently into the back of your mind.
At one point the even made a comeback in the form of a wonky Windows Phone device with a huge camera bump that exactly excite the buying public.
HMD figures some people will buy it as a second phone a way to get away from the tyranny of your dinging iPhone and buzzing Apple Watch without fully disconnecting.
In December Masayoshi Son the Japanese billionaire who control SoftBank promised Donald Trump he would invest billion in the United States.
However CNBC source said that Softbank has increased its interest and cash infusion plans since The Journal first published its story.
Over the past two years WeWork has raised more than billion from firms such as Goldman Sachs Benchmark and Hony Capital.
In early December the name of a candidate to be the science adviser to the president began percolating in Trump Tower David Gelernter the reclusive Yale University computer scientist known for his dripping disdain for the liberal intellectual elite and for surviving an attack by the Unabomber.
surprise victory in November also gave Thiel a renewed faith in the possibilities of politics and he has worked around the clock to push friends and associates into positions that will give them sway over science and technology policy an area he believes has been routinely neglected under previous administrations.
Also along for the ride Michael Kratsios chief of staff and Charlie Kirk a wunderkind who blew off college to start a organization dedicated to training young conservatives in the art of persuasion and plugging them into the right networks.
The growing portfolio of modular includes cameras speakers batteries and more and on Sunday at Mobile World Congress Motorola announced several additions to the lineup.
It features a glowing blue light that illuminates when Alexa is activated and a pyramidal base that doubles as a desk stand.
They subsequently launched crowdfunding campaigns on Indiegogo and have a shot at meeting with Verizon and Motorola representatives to get their Moto Mods featured in online store.
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This is not a new measure but expect to hear more and more about this as the anticipated Samsung Galaxy hits the market with a bigger screen to body ratio and rumours that Apple might finally be doing the same.
Without directly acknowledging that the was a mistake LG said today is a approach to premium smartphones with a focus on the features consumers want most notably a big screen that actually fits in one.
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Even Andrew House global chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment the video game division of the Japanese electronics giant had doubts about how quickly virtual reality would be embraced by the mass market.
Among the other challenges facing the technology high prices for virtual reality equipment limited content and thorny side effects like motion sickness.
One exception is Capcom a Japanese game maker that released a new installment in its popular horror series Resident Evil biohazard in January that is entirely playable in virtual reality.
They have much chunkier designs compared to the first Huawei Watch and are significantly thicker and bulkier despite having a smaller circular display than the prior screen.
Both versions have interchangeable straps and the Classic model has a unique that has a leather top and rubber underneath to protect against sweat damage.
In April it will come to US UK Holland Belgium Switzerland Ireland The Nordics Thailand Australia New Zealand Russia India South Africa Poland Austria Saudi Arabia Japan and UAE and Malaysia will see it starting in May.
At its Mobile World Congress keynote Director of Alexa Voice Service Jon Kirk announced that it would partner with Motorola to create a speaker Moto Mod that essentially turns your phone into a portable Amazon Echo.
In a concept video the Mod is stuck to the back of a Moto Z and users can place their phone screen side down to use it as a speaker.
So far the company appears to be on track to deliver its promise of releasing at least Moto Mods per year targeting four each quarter.
In this case easy access to other groups in Facebook specifically the mobile team intimately familiar with iPhone hardware led to the jump from rendering images in data centers to performing the work on the phone itself.
Though his grades were equally high in science and humanities he decided to attend college in Madrid ideally studying the hardest subject he could think of telecommunications engineering which not only required a mastery of physical stuff like antennas and amplifiers but also an understanding of data which was He fell under the spell of a professor who proselytized adaptive systems.
All of those he says will lead to a understanding By figuring out how to actually know what content means Facebook intends to detect subtle intent from comments extract nuance from the spoken word identify faces of your friends that fleetingly appear in videos and interpret your expressions and map them onto avatars in virtual reality sessions.
by Alpha | Feb 24, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. CHK:$CHK NICE a UBS UPGRADE DJ Chesapeake Energy Raised to Neutral From Sell by UBS Fri Feb 24 06:57:25 2017 EDT
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1. J.C. Penney to shut 130-140 stores; quarterly sales drop
Department store operator J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) said on Friday it would close about 130-140 stores over the next few months, and reported a 0.7 percent drop in same-store sales for the holiday quarter.
2. Unilever says Kraft’s shock bid to spur focus on short-term value
Unilever (ULVR.L) said the shock of Kraft Heinz’s (KHC.O) opportunistic approach had jolted it to re-examine its strategy, and all aspects of the consumer goods giant’s business were up for review to increase shareholder value.
3. Cempra’s Fusidic Acid Achieves Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Study of ABSSSI
—Fusidic acid met primary endpoint and secondary efficacy endpoints—
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outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
Today taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade secrets and infringing our patents.
Hundreds of Waymo engineers have spent thousands of hours and our company has invested millions of dollars to design a highly specialized and unique LiDAR system.
seeking an injunction to stop the misappropriation of our designs return all trade secret information and cease infringing our patents.
Today taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade secrets and infringing our patents.
Hundreds of Waymo engineers have spent thousands of hours and our company has invested millions of dollars to design a highly specialized and unique LiDAR system.
seeking an injunction to stop the misappropriation of our designs return all trade secret information and cease infringing our patents.
In a opinion and order which was published on February but only began to circulate amongst privacy lawyers and legal scholars on Twitter on Wednesday Judge David Weisman wrote that while investigators did have probable cause to search a particular home these limitations do impact the ability of the government to seek the extraordinary authority related to compelling individuals to provide their fingerprints to unlock an Apple electronic device.
First the Court finds that the warrant does not establish sufficient probable cause to compel any person who happens to be at the subject premises at the time of the search to give his fingerprint to unlock an unspecified Apple electronic device.
As I read the opinion the government relies on old fingerprinting cases to argue that the Fourth and Fifth Amendments stand in the way of what they are seeking to do here Abraham Rein a tech lawyer told Ars by.
outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
Mentors show you something about yourself that you realize.
Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal the founders of giant Snapdeal told employees that they would take a pay cut as they lay off hundreds of workers in a bid to make a profit a source at the company said.
Several members of the company senior leadership team have also offered to join Bahl and Bansal in taking a pay cut said the source who decline to be identified because they were authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
They in the company of big names like Facebook FB founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla TSLA CEO Elon Musk who officially take home or less.
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1. Pernix Therapeutics Prevails in Zohydro® ER ANDA Litigation
MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTX ), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Pain and CNS conditions, announced today that it received a favorable opinion in its litigation with Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. regarding a proposed generic version of Zohydro ER. Judge Gregory M. Sleet of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware concluded that Actavis’ proposed generic versions of Zohydro ER infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 9,132,096 (which expires on September 12, 2034) and 6,902,742 (which expires on November 1, 2019) following a trial that took place in October 2016. The Judge has entered an order enjoining Actavis from engaging in the commercial manufacture, use, offer to sell, or sale in the United States, or importation into the United States of Actavis’ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) product prior to expiration of the two patents. Actavis did not assert invalidity or unenforceability of the patents at trial.
2. Bristol-Myers Looms as Pharma’s Next Megadeal as Activists Join
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. was once one of the drug industry’s highest-flying companies. Now the pharmaceutical giant has gone from predator to prey, as its sagging stock price has invited in activist investors who are already forcing changes.
3. Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
A former employee’s blog post has raised questions about the limits of meritocracy at Uber and how much executives knew about the treatment of employees.
4. dough on Twitter
“CEO Of $SCYX nice update at RBC yesterday”
5. Ultra Clean beats Street 4Q forecasts
The Hayward, California-based company said it had profit of 30 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 36 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The …
6. Sage Therapeutics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update
Sage Therapeutics, Inc. today reported business highlights and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.
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Lansing previously led the digital department for the Republican National Committee.
President Donald Trump director of scheduling Caroline Wiles was also among the six staffers who did not pass the intensive FBI screening.
The intensive background check includes questions on the applicant credit score substance use and other personal subjects.
Peter Thiel became one of the American political most notorious figures in when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media my former employer even before he won a direct line to the White he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on board of directors a Rolodex of software luminaries and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism.
We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and in my case somewhat deviant people like to In that same article Thiel lays out mission with privacy in mind to terrorism while preserving civil After the first wave of revelations spurred by the whistleblower Edward Snowden Palantir was quick to deny that it had any connection to the NSA spy program known as PRISM which shared an unfortunate code name with one of its own software products.
In pitch its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable analysts working together to truly leverage their collective The fake target a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called Paraiso Movement was suspected of a terrorist bombing but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to and track members of any political or ideological group.
Peter Thiel became one of the American political most notorious figures in when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media my former employer even before he won a direct line to the White he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on board of directors a Rolodex of software luminaries and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism.
We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and in my case somewhat deviant people like to In that same article Thiel lays out mission with privacy in mind to terrorism while preserving civil After the first wave of revelations spurred by the whistleblower Edward Snowden Palantir was quick to deny that it had any connection to the NSA spy program known as PRISM which shared an unfortunate code name with one of its own software products.
In pitch its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable analysts working together to truly leverage their collective The fake target a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called Paraiso Movement was suspected of a terrorist bombing but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to and track members of any political or ideological group.
Gordon Gekko said that greed is good that it captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit A hedge fund hunts for an edge and then maniacally guards it locking down its trading data and barring its traders from joining the company next door.
Inspired by the same tech that underpins bitcoin his creation joins a growing wave of what people in the world of call tokens assets that enable the crowdsourcing of everything from venture capital to computing power.
For Craib a trained mathematician with an enormous wave of curly hair topping his frame the hope is that Numeraire will encourage Wall Street to operate more like an open source software project.
SAN FRANCISCO When new employees join Uber they are asked to subscribe to core company values including making bold bets being with the customer and be The service particularly emphasizes the idea that the best and brightest will rise to the top based on their efforts even if it means stepping on toes to get there.
Among the most egregious accusations from employees who either witnessed or were subject to incidents and who asked to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements and fear of retaliation One Uber manager groped female breasts at a company retreat in Las Vegas.
The chief executive Travis Kalanick has opened an internal investigation into the accusations and has brought in the board member Arianna Huffington and the former attorney general Eric Holder to look into harassment issues and the human resources department.
Industry has developed various standards within the framework of these rules such as Bluetooth and Zigbee that are designed to coexist in shared spectrum.
and stakeholders worked together under the auspices of the Alliance to develop guidelines and an evaluation test plan that was released last fall.
We remain committed to ensuring that all who seek to introduce new products and technologies may do so provided their devices comply with the FCC rules.
Over food and drinks on Brown hosted a roundtable of top editors and executives at prominent US news outlets including the New Yorker David Remnick the New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin Vox Melissa Bell and USA s Joanne Lipman.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially downplayed the notion that widespread fake political news stories could have swayed voters the company eventually instituted a handful of measures to stem and hired Brown a former CNN host and controversial education activist to rebuild trust with the media.
One attendee said the room also discussed plans for helping publishers begin to draw in significant advertising revenue from the videos they are producing for the platform.
Today Instagram launches the ability to share a mix of up to photos or videos as a single carousel post that friends can swipe through.
Users can then edit up to photos and videos individually or with a single filter on everything chooe their order and tag friends in each.
Instagram suggests that you could use the new feature to your favorite moments of your best surprise birthday party from setting up to when they walk through the door.
AMD executives confidently unveiled the first three desktop chips to attack Core supported by several motherboard vendors and boutique system builders.
Analysts say AMD appears to have done its homework leaving Intel in danger of giving up market share in the PC microprocessors that built its company.
Mark Hachman Su reiterated that she believes AMD will have adequate supplies of Ryzen on hand to meet customer demand a claim that Moor Insights analyst Pat Moorhead says confirmed.
Per AMD demonstrations the Ryzen also beat the Intel chip in Handbrake video encoding and boasted somewhat better frame rates in Sniper Elite at.
AMD is promising that March will be a hard launch too with chips in abundant supply or more different motherboards from a wide range of OEMs and systems from different boutique PC vendors.
Late in the year the company will be launching its new Vega GPU architecture the Naples server CPU mobile Ryzen parts with integrated graphics processors and Radeon Instinct headless GPUs designed for supercomputing number crunching.
$CNCE Concert Pharma jumps on news Vertex $VRTX to pay up to $250M for cystic fibrosis drug – MW
$CMG Ackman’s Pershing Square Has No Current Plans to Sell Chipotle Shares Amid Prospectus – SI