by Alpha | Feb 8, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Celgene Announces Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior unsecured notes under a shelf
2. Arbutus Consolidates HBV Business Around Warminster, PA Site
VANCOUVER, British Columbia and WARMINSTER, Pa., Feb. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (Nasdaq: ABUS ), an industry-leading Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) therapeutic solutions company, today announced a site consolidation and organizational restructuring to better align its HBV business in Warminster, PA. These organizational changes are expected to result in increased efficiency, a more flexible variable cost structure, and additional preservation of the Company’s cash reserves. The Company’s Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) technology group will remain intact.
3. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: TWTR, REGN, YUM, GRUB, CVS, TMUS & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
4. Texas flood: U.S. oil exports pour into markets worldwide
In the two years since Washington lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, tankers filled with U.S. crude have landed in more than 30 countries, ranging from massive economies like China and India to tiny Togo.
5. Twitter Posts Surprise Sales Gain; Monthly User Growth Stagnates
Twitter Inc. posted a surprise gain in revenue, the first growth in four quarters, driven by improvements to its app and added video content that are persuading advertisers to boost spending on the social network.
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But eight hours after I left during my layover in Toronto I opened the app on my phone and it reported back that the camera was offline the most recent video was from that morning showing my daughter in my arms in the kitchen.
I would discover the camera was offline thanks to the cries of a daughter woken up by a bright orange whole episode reinforced something that was already bothering me Getting a smart home means that everyone who lives or comes inside it is part of your personal panopticon something which may not be obvious to them because they expect everyday objects to have spying abilities.
Almost every TV on the market now is connected otherwise how do you Netflix and chill over million smart speakers were sold last year alone with Apple soon to release its version the HomePod meaning a good percentage of American homes have or will have an assistant waiting patiently for someone in the house to say their wake word.
With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF founder visionary and our ongoing inspiration John Perry Barlow passed away quietly in his sleep this morning.
So I predicted Utopia hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls totalitarianism.
lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race economic power military force or station of birth.
ET YouTube is the new television with more than billion users and videos the site recommends have the power to influence viewpoints around the world.
Those recommendations often present divisive misleading or false content despite changes the site has recently made to highlight fare a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
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this funding we will further invest in building differentiated offerings plugging the white spaces in the ecosystem and developing our technology while keeping superlative customer experience at the core said Sriharsha Majety CEO Swiggy.
At about orders fulfilled per day Foodpanda is a distant third in the Indian market followed by UberEATS and Google Areo both of which have been steadily increasing customer discounts while reducing restaurant commissions in a bid to make their platforms more attractive.
The last months marked a period of for food aggregators with significant growth in revenues buoyed by a swell in order volumes thus stoking investor interest in the sector once again.
Generally speaking Alphabet pursues a broader strategy of launching a smattering of independent tech companies in hopes of finding the next big thing outside Google massively profitable online advertising business.
Wednesday move also calls into question Alphabet broader strategy of creating a bunch of different tech companies in hopes of stumbling onto a new growth area outside of Google core advertising business.
By working together continue to combine hardware software and services to create a home safer friendlier to the environment smarter and even helps you save with artificial intelligence and the Assistant at the core.
As of Wednesday around EST Reddit appears to have suspended the subreddit dedicated to creating fake porn videos using a machine learning algorithm.
In the last week Discord Gfycat Pornhub and Twitter have all denounced involuntary pornography including deepfakes and banned these videos from their platforms.
The methods and tools for creating these videos are still easy to find and deepfake makers have already set up shop on new Discord channels their own dedicated websites and other platforms.
In the online gaming world virtual reality has already been used by some of the top streamers to engage with their audiences but not much return for what the personalities have to give up.
By dropping a game avatar into a VR world that they can navigate a level of agency and connection is possible that really adds a lot to the perceived relationship between streamers and their audiences.
As opposed to watching a static screen clear a lot of potential for interaction but only if virtual reality devices continue to catch on.
by Alpha | Feb 8, 2018 | Pre-Market, Trade Ideas
by Alpha | Feb 7, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Goldman Sachs in Talks With Apple to Finance iPhone Sales
The Wall Street firm is in talks to offer financing to shoppers buying phones, watches and other gadgets from Apple, people familiar with the matter said. Customers purchasing a $1,000 iPhone X could take out a loan from Goldman instead of charging it to credit cards that often carry high interest rates.
2. AnaptysBio To Present Data from ANB020 Phase 2a Atopic Dermatitis Trial at AAD Annual Meeting
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AnaptysBio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAB ), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class antibody product candidates focused on unmet medical needs in inflammation, today announced that data from the company’s Phase 2a trial of ANB020, AnaptysBio’s wholly-owned anti-IL-33 antibody program, in adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis will be presented during an oral presentation at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018 in San Diego. These data will be presented by the principal investigator of the ANB020 Phase 2a clinical trial, Dr. Graham Ogg, professor of dermatology at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
3. Musk’s Big Questions: Can Tesla Make Model 3s and Burn Less Cash?
Progress toward boosting production looms large.
4. Get Ready for Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says
The tumble in cryptocurrencies that erased nearly $500 billion of market value over the past month could get a lot worse, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s global head of investment research.
5. Bank of America Hires Law Firm to Help Probe $292 Million Loss
Bank of America has brought in an outside law firm to help examine a soured lending arrangement that led to a $292 million charge in last year’s fourth quarter.
6. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: WYNN, HUM, HAS, KORS, DIS, LULU & more
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7. Xconomy: At Verastem, Infinity’s Former Blood Cancer Drug Heads to FDA
Verastem has filed for FDA approval of duvelisib, a blood cancer drug the Boston company took a shot on in a 2016 bargain deal with Infinity Pharmaceutical
8. World’s Largest ETF Hit by Biggest Four-Day Outflow on Record
The global market maelstrom spurred money managers to yank a record $17.4 billion from the mighty SPDR S&P 500 ETF over the past four trading sessions. The $8 billion removed on Tuesday alone was the third-largest daily withdrawal in the post-crisis era.
9. Casino magnate Steve Wynn quits as CEO after sexual misconduct claims
U.S. casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as CEO of his company Wynn Resorts following claims he subjected women who worked for him to unwanted advances, becoming one of the most prominent business leaders to quit over sexual misconduct allegations in recent months.
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actually visited audio testing labs before and stood in these curiously chambers that allow you to isolate the smallest variation in tone of a speaker and much of what Apple showed is standard operating procedure for development of a new loudspeaker.
But it really kicked ass in live performances where it felt that the vocals were sitting out in the air between you and HomePod no matter where you were standing and the applause and high hats were coming from some place above and behind the speaker being projected outwards and around.
Siri had a hard time with the length of a blue whale Echo gave a rote reading of Wikipedia and the Home Max spoke in colloquial language right from the Google brain making it the most enjoyable to listen to.
Four prominent Atlantic Glade Brook Capital Technology Crossover Ventures and plan to begin the listing process by drafting paperwork as soon as next month according to emails reviewed by Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter.
Tosi the former CFO at Blackstone Group who turns on Thursday never fit in at Airbnb according to interviews with more than a dozen executives employees and investors who asked not to be identified discussing private matters.
People with knowledge of the matter also outlined for the first time creation of a hedge fund inside Airbnb and his opposition to a proposed late investment from Japanese investor SoftBank Group Corp.
ET Siri should I get a HomePod or an Amazon Echo.
I just love the sound of Click here to listen.
Hey Siri answered a question right.
Snap soared after an earnings report that beat analyst expectations with shares jumping up to percent during trading.
GBH Insights chief strategy officer Daniel Ives said in a note the redesign should help attract older users a key advertising target.
However he acknowledged Snap faces many issues including ARPUs that are below industry averages and competition from other social networks like Instagram Facebook and Twitter.
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He had previously spent three years at Google where he helped large advertisers refine their marketing campaigns across the family of products.
Understanding how posts and speeches resonate globally could help the company navigate a difficult period in which it has faced stern criticism from lawmakers regulators journalists and average users.
The company declined to comment on role but the polling was not designed to influence Facebook products or policies a spokesman said and no specific changes have resulted from it.
SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son held up the Uber size as an example of how his firm had changed the game in Silicon Valley.
Several deals struck by SoftBank are being to the Vision Fund most notably a percent stake in Arm Holdings the British chip company.
The Vision Fund has upended tech investing in Silicon Valley by chasing after some of the flashiest companies a phenomenon that has at times both frustrated and amazed rival investors.
The company delivered sales that blew past expectations its first upbeat quarterly report since going public as advertisers start to get more comfortable spending money on its Snapchat app.
The numbers on Tuesday may help some on Wall Street revisit their original thesis on the company that Snap already popular with young people has enough growth potential to carve out a solid slice of a digital ad market dominated by Facebook and Google.
been a roller coaster mismatch between expectations and reality but the benefits of all their initiatives are finally starting to come to fruition said James Cakmak an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt Co.
by Alpha | Feb 6, 2018 | Pre-Market
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3. QQQ:Today $QQQ $NDX hit day w/ most distance to 200d
4. VIX:#BREAKING: CBOE Volatility Index $VIX crosses 40 in session, hits highest level since August 2015 @Reuters
6. NVDA:@losgatostrader @jimcramer At-$188-down-25%-from-ATH-yes- $NVDA
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Friday was the deadline for Facebook to comply with a longstanding Seattle law requiring companies to disclose detailed information about the political ads they sell targeting local elections.
Additionally as Barnett noted in an back to the company on Friday Facebook failed to provide him with copies of the ads in question or information about their intended and actual audiences.
This would be important information for the public to have because political ads on digital platforms as we learned during the last presidential election can be used to narrowly target different demographic groups with messages that remain invisible to the wider electorate.
The new features focus around making Snapchat the most flexible visual messaging app doubling down on its most popular use case as its Stories stop growing in the face of competition from Instagram and WhatsApp.
In fact Do Not Disturb was championed by Tristan Harris leader of the Time Well Spent movement who today launched the Center For Humane Technology that will fund addiction research education and lobbying.
In more lighthearted fare Snapchat confirms starting to roll out new text styles just a week after Instagram added its new with modern signature typewriter and billboard fonts.
With a headline that promised to bring us inside Silicon orgiastic dark side Chang laid out how sex parties were happening behind the scenes at the homes of wealthy tech executives and investors.
One party she described was later tied to the home of Steve Jurvetson a venture capitalist who left his firm last year amid an investigation into his behavior with women.
In which hits book stores on the secret sex parties are just a symptom of a much deeper problem that Silicon tech industry has with its treatment of women.
The hotly anticipated trial between Waymo and Uber began on Monday with lawyer dragging out the embarrassing elements of culture.
Referencing early efforts to recruit from Carnegie Mellon for its car team Verhoeven accused the company of abandoning tactics in an attempt to compete.
have a choice between being the headline or the footnote in book on the next revolution on Urmson ended up leaving Waymo to start his own venture Aurora Innovation.
Still the possibility that end privacy could have been breached is surely alarming to Mixpanel customers who trust it to watch how their sites and apps are used to optimize performance and monetization.
Upon investigating further we realized that because of the way we had implemented Autotrack when it launched in August this could happen in other scenarios where browser plugins such as the password manager and website frameworks place sensitive data into form element attributes.
audits of key existing product areas learned a lot from this issue and our team has been diving in to look for similar cases where these same kinds of problems could arise.
Isaac ChoiPenny Kim the former head of marketing at WrkRiot who wrote about her experience at the company including the forgery allegations said heard stories about late paychecks or failing but who expects fraud in Silicon Valley.
He brought in advisers with expertise in recruiting and data science and eventually hired nearly employees including Chinese nationals under work visas.
Michelle Young the founder of the online travel guide Untapped Cities reached out to Kim to tell her about an undisclosed that bought ad space from her company but then stopped paying.
Barnett said response come close to meeting their public The company provided partial spending numbers but not copies of ads or data about whom they targeted.
Legislation is pending to extend federal rules governing political advertising on television and radio to also cover internet ads and tech firms have announced plans to voluntarily disclose some data.
The law went unenforced against tech companies until a local newspaper The Stranger published a story in December in the wake of the Russia allegations asking why.
by Alpha | Feb 5, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.
2. Capricor (CAPR) Receives FDA RMAT Designation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Therapy
Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CAPR ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted CAP-1002, its lead investigational cell therapy for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation.
3. Stocks Extend Selloff as Dollar Drops; Gold Rises: Markets Wrap
European and Asian equities fell and U.S. share futures headed lower as global stocks extended the biggest selloff since 2016. Treasuries stabilized while the dollar weakened.
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The smartphone supply chain means that there are an enormous range of very sophisticated very small low power and cheap commodity components available off the shelf for anyone else to pick up and turn into products.
That plus the contract manufacturers that are also part of the smartphone supply chain is behind a lot of the current Cambrian explosion in smart device creation but it also means that hardware differentiation is extremely hard.
An enormous amount has been written about what it would mean if you said Alexa I need more soap instead of choosing Tide on a screen or in a shop Amazon would take an even stronger and more embedded role in buying and gain even more control over its suppliers what do you have to pay to be the default choice for order more.
The latest verified data resulted in an upgrade to estimates with total ad market growth now believed to have been percentage points higher than the last projections in October.
While this was not enough to offset print losses during the quarter the total market contraction of was the best performance in three years suggesting a slight easing of the intense business pressures newsbrands are facing.
we work through Brexit we need to help Government make the best decisions to support our industry and by extension the wider UK economy as we target growth across the nations and regions and in an increasingly global.
ET Apple Music is on the verge of overtaking Spotify AB in paid subscribers a sign that the dominant force is facing growing competition ahead of its hotly anticipated public stock offering.
Apple service introduced in June has been adding subscribers in the more rapidly than its older Swedish monthly growth rate of versus to people in the record business familiar with figures reported by the two services.
Assuming that clip continues Apple.
by Alpha | Jan 29, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Japan’s SoftBank hatches plan to take on PayPal
SoftBank, the Japanese technology colossus, is studying an audacious plan to create a global digital payments system that could take on PayPal, Apple Pay and China’s Alipay. The investment giant —…
2. Facebook makes privacy push ahead of strict EU law
Facebook said on Monday it was publishing its privacy principles for the first time and rolling out educational videos to help users control who has access to their information, as it prepares for the start of a tough new EU data protection law.
3. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: DPS, LMT, CBS, WYNN, AAPL, FB & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
4. Aradigm Receives Complete Response Letter from the FDA for Linhaliq NDA
Aradigm Corporation today announces that it received a Complete Response Letter from the US Food and Drug Administration regarding its New Drug Application for Linhaliq™ as a treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis patients with chronic lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.
5. Apple set to halve first quarter iPhone X production target: Nikkei
Apple Inc has notified suppliers that it will halve its iPhone X production target for the first quarter to around 20 million units, Nikkei reported on Monday without citing a source.
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ET The drop was swift Prices for bitcoin and dozens of other digital currencies on fell sharply lopping more than billion off their collective market value.
The move can be traced to one address An apartment in a new residential building across the street from a local union headquarters in a gentrifying section of Long Island City Queens.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agency has officially gained access to a nationwide license plate recognition database according to a contract finalized earlier this month.
the previous locations of a vehicle can help determine the whereabouts of subjects of criminal investigations or priority aliens to facilitate their interdiction and removal an official privacy assessment explains.
Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson canceled the solicitation shortly afterward citing privacy concerns although two field offices subsequently formed rogue contracts with Vigilant in apparent violation of policy.
Kathy Ireland the onetime swimsuit model who today presides over a licensing empire has hundreds of thousands of fake Devumi followers as does Akbar Gbajabiamila the host of the show Ninja Even a Twitter board member Martha Lane Fox has some.
Sonja Morgan a cast member on the Bravo show Real Housewives of New York City uses her Twitter feed to promote her fashion line a shopping app and a website that sells personalized One former contestant Clay Aiken even paid Devumi to spread a grievance his customer service complaint against Volvo.
According to a recent profile in the British tabloid The Sun two young siblings Arabella and Jaadin Daho earn a combined a year as influencers working with brands such as Amazon Disney Louis Vuitton and Nintendo.
To borrow a phrase from English law a man on a Clapham omnibus an average ordinary and reasonable human likely not assume that their first and last name would be broadcast so indiscriminately despite having an enhanced privacy enabled.
In addition to their clever Privacy Zones allows users to block out areas where workouts commonly begin and end like home or Beacon tool in their premium version will send live links of a activity to chosen contacts.
The problem with this attitude is that it puts the onus on consumers to ensure that being respected and lets companies off the assumption being that they can bank on a good number of users being too lazy confused or negligent to opt out.
ET In initial disclosures about critical security flaws discovered in its processors Intel notified a small group of customers including Chinese technology companies but left out the government according to people familiar with the matter and some of the companies involved.
The decision raises concerns security researchers said as it potentially could have allowed information about the chip flaws dubbed Spectre and Meltdown to fall into the hands of the Chinese government before being publicly divulged.
That figure include the fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles used by the government not only to bomb terrorists in Yemen but also to help stop illegal immigrants entering from Mexico monitor hurricane flooding in Texas and catch cattle thieves in North Dakota.
University of Texas American studies professor Randolph Lewis writes in his new book Under Surveillance Being Watched in Modern America is often exhausting to those who really feel its undertow it overwhelms with its constant badgering its omnipresent mysteries its endless tabulations of movements purchases.
The tableau inside is textbook Silicon Valley more than mostly young techies in aggressively casual dress hunched silently over their keyboards in an open work space aside from a few conference rooms named after some of the them Galileo Gandhi and Al Gore.
