by Alpha | Jan 16, 2018 | Pre-Market
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6. NCTY:$NCTY The9 Limited and Blockchain Technology Company Signed Partnership Agreement and Enters into Blockchain Services Business
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11. GE:$GE down 1.5% pre-market, will take $6.2B charge.
13. PIRS:$PIRS PT raised to $12 from $9 at H.C. Wainwright
14. AMCN:$AMCN from one really questionable transaction attempt to another; now a so called “blockchain” play *DJ AirMedia…
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1. Merck’s KEYTRUDA(R) (pembrolizumab) Significantly Improved Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival as First-Line Treatment in Combination with Pemetrexed and Platinum Chemotherapy for Patients with Metastatic Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung… | Merck Newsroom Home
KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-189 trial investigating KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with pemetrexed (Alimta®) and cisplatin or carboplatin, for the first-line treatment of patients with m
2. GE slumps after saying it will take a $6.2 billion hit on its insurance business
The original Dow member company is down 4% as it struggles to reinvent itself for the 21st century.
3. Citigroup earnings top expectations, excluding $19 billion charge for tax law changes
Citigroup reported quarterly earnings on Tuesday that beat expectations.
4. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GE, UNH, PG, AN, DIS, WMT & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
5. Ericsson, Humbled by Huawei, Takes Another $1.8 Billion in Charges
Ericsson said it is writing down $1.77 billion in assets, the latest in a series of charges at the Swedish telecoms-equipment maker as it retools itself to better compete with nimbler Chinese manufacturers.
6. AveXis Announces Expanded Clinical Development Program for AVXS-101 in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
– Company to expand study of AVXS-101 into additional SMA populations including pre-symptomatic, older pediatric Type 2 and Type 3 SMA patients –
7. Odi Bruckman on Twitter
“$MRK KEYTRUDA Significantly Improved OS and PFS as First-Line Treatment in Combination with Pemetrexed and Platinum Chemotherapy for Patients with Metastatic #NSCLC (KEYNOTE-189)
8. GE to Take $6.2 Billion Charge After Insurance Portfolio Review
General Electric Co. will take a charge of $6.2 billion for the fourth quarter as the manufacturing behemoth grapples with lingering problems in a legacy insurance business.
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also found that almost all fiber to the home networks offered prices that were clear and unchanging whereas private ISPs typically charged initial low promotional or rates that later sharply rose usually after months the researchers said.
To retain this status quo ISPs have spent decades writing and buying state laws that prohibit towns and cities from exploring community owned and operated broadband networks.
Instead decided to buy protectionist laws spread disinformation about how these networks operate and sue local communities for simply trying to find creative solutions to the broadband monopoly logjam.
On Monday conservative activist and filmmaker James published undercover footage of Twitter engineers alleging the social network has hundreds of employees reading everything you post online including direct messages.
A former senior Twitter employee echoed the company comment observing that the claims in Monday Project Veritas video were technically accurate to a degree but exaggerated for effect by drunk idiots.
Last week released footage of Twitter engineers alleging the company is than happy to help the Department of Justice in their little by handing over Trump tweets and direct messages.
also found that almost all fiber to the home networks offered prices that were clear and unchanging whereas private ISPs typically charged initial low promotional or rates that later sharply rose usually after months the researchers said.
To retain this status quo ISPs have spent decades writing and buying state laws that prohibit towns and cities from exploring community owned and operated broadband networks.
Instead decided to buy protectionist laws spread disinformation about how these networks operate and sue local communities for simply trying to find creative solutions to the broadband monopoly logjam.
Three constant features characterize publishers a deep sense of entitlement are the news you owe this and that to a lack of technical competence they expect FB to come up with products and in Europe a propensity to call on Daddy the government and Mommy Brussels when things go awry.
Driven by a mixture of naïveté herd mentality Fear Of Missing Out Fomo and a burning desire to monetize journalism publishers jumped on every bone Facebook threw at them hoping for the magic infusion they were no longer able to find on their own.
This vision could backfire terribly an increase in the weight of means reinforcement of worst features cognitive bubbles where users are kept in silos fueled by a torrent of fake news and extremism.
On Monday conservative activist and filmmaker James published undercover footage of Twitter engineers alleging the social network has hundreds of employees reading everything you post online including direct messages.
A former senior Twitter employee echoed the company comment observing that the claims in Monday Project Veritas video were technically accurate to a degree but exaggerated for effect by drunk idiots.
Last week released footage of Twitter engineers alleging the company is than happy to help the Department of Justice in their little by handing over Trump tweets and direct messages.
The name coined until when artist and inventor Jaron Lanier left his job at Atari to found a company focused on selling movie headsets to consumers and been both a buzzword and a darling of technologists ever since.
The only sound was of hearts and minds slowly opening wrote Rachel Mark of one grade class in Vermont that viewed a New York Times VR documentary called The Displaced about Syrian refugees.
technology can be designed for use in the courtroom to recreate crime scenes impeach the testimony of unreliable witnesses test assertions and enhance a understanding of disputed events in simulated environments he writes in the Marquette Law Review.
by Alpha | Jan 12, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. JPMorgan’s Equity Traders Took a $143 Million Loss on a Single Client
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s equities business took a big hit from Steinhoff International Holdings NV last quarter.
2. JPMorgan’s Profit Hurt by Tax Law
JPMorgan said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit fell from a year earlier because of one-time charges related to the recently passed tax overhaul, while earnings excluding that impact were roughly flat.
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In remitters sent nearly billion in payments to help support family members living in their home countries or to settle transactions with business partners.
how it works xRapid enables foreign exchange FX settlement through XRP which gives financial institutions the ability to unlock liquidity and access multiple corridors with one originating account.
is at the forefront of blockchain technology and we look forward to piloting xRapid said Alex Holmes chief executive officer of MoneyGram in a press release.
NEW YORK Reuters Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer for Gawker hoping to overcome legal hurdles and rival bidders for the online news site the billionaire helped shutter by funding litigation against it people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Most of its assets including its sister pages Deadspin a sports site and Jezebel a feminist blog were bought in for million by media company Univision Holdings Inc.
They had launched a campaign seeking in donations through fundraising site Kickstarter but failed to reach their goal and have returned the approximately they did collect.
Facebook was slow to acknowledge the legitimacy of those concerns with Zuckerberg notoriously dismissing the idea that propaganda and fake news impacted the US presidential election as in late.
But the company changed its tune in fall after it acknowledged that a Russian influence operation had purchased worth of ads promoting politically divisive content in the lead up to the election.
Photograph Stephen In his post Zuckerberg noted and other public content have exploded on Facebook in the past couple of to the extent that some feel it is updates from friends and family.
A timing quirk in the tax overhaul that President Donald Trump signed last month may be good news for companies such as Apple Microsoft and Cisco Systems all of which began their fiscal years before.
bill was passed on a speed train schedule with no time to think said Shay who was a senior Treasury Department official during the administrations of former presidents Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.
Overall multinational corporations including those that have the fiscal year advantage are weighing different ways to mitigate the effects of the repatriation provision said Solomon who was a top Treasury tax official in former President George administration.
Facebook is making changes to its News Feed in an attempt to favor interactions with friends over what it calls videos or articles that ask a user to just sit back and watch or Ali Asaei for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO Facebook has introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most often saying on Thursday that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while content from publishers and brands.
Adam Mosseri vice president of product management at Facebook who is responsible for running the News Feed acknowledged that will be from partners and publishers who often complain about the constant changes in what will be shown across the network.
After the election for instance Zuckerberg initially shrugged off qualms about effect on the outcome even as outsiders pointed to the proliferation of fake news stories on the site that had attacked Hillary Clinton.
Google is planning a new push to vet YouTube videos that it bundles for major advertisers people familiar with the effort said moving to address resurgent concerns that inappropriate content is being shown alongside brand messages.
In recent months advertisers and others have complained about the unfiltered nature of some videos involving children and popular stars such as Logan Paul the second round of such scrutiny in the past year.
Google told partners that it plans to use both human moderators the company recently announced it will have employees focused on the task as well as artificial intelligence software to flag videos deemed inappropriate for ads.
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But he also wears another hat a forum administrator one of many across the globe who put in countless hours managing unofficial online communities where drivers who work for Uber Lyft and other services share advice and warnings answer questions and provide a rare sense of camaraderie.
A message from Uber shared on a forumIn a job where the conditions of work are subject to frequent changes partial information about a discrete experiment an emergent pricing policy or a test feature can spread quickly.
But online communications are adding a new dimension to other kinds of gig work too as my colleagues at Data Society Julia Ticona and Alexandra Mateescu have found in their research on care and cleaning platforms.
A share sale by San Dropbox one of a closely watched group of private tech companies with valuations would follow Snap disappointing step into the public markets.
Spotify owner of the largest paid music service plans to execute its unconventional direct listing this quarter a person familiar with the matter said this month.
made it easier for Dropbox to cut costs while speeding file transfers Chief Operating Officer Dennis Woodside said in an interview last year.
Facebook is making changes to its News Feed in an attempt to favor interactions with friends over what it calls videos or articles that ask a user to just sit back and watch or Ali Asaei for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO Facebook has introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most often saying on Thursday that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while content from publishers and brands.
Adam Mosseri vice president of product management at Facebook who is responsible for running the News Feed acknowledged that will be from partners and publishers who often complain about the constant changes in what will be shown across the network.
After the election for instance Zuckerberg initially shrugged off qualms about effect on the outcome even as outsiders pointed to the proliferation of fake news stories on the site that had attacked Hillary Clinton.
by Alpha | Jan 11, 2018 | Pre-Market
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9. NVAX:$NVAX PT raised to $2.50 at Ladenburg
10. COGT:$COGT the good ol’ morning after #ThankYouComeAgain
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1. Wal-Mart Raises U.S. Hourly Wage to $11 in Wake of Tax Overhaul
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market.
2. Amazon price target raised to $1,425 ahead of Q4 earnings at Stifel
Stifel analyst Scott Devitt previewed Amazon’s Q4 earnings report, expected in early February, telling investors he expects healthy e-commerce holiday sales, continued momentum in Prime adoption and continued strength in AWS. Beyond the quarter, he sees Amazon as well positioned for 2018 and 2019 given strength in e-commerce, cloud, smart speakers and voice), international growth and new product categories like grocery. Devitt raised his price target on Amazon shares to $1,425 from $1,313 and keeps a Buy rating on the stock.
3. Walmart is raising wages and issuing bonuses after tax reform
The company’s CEO said it’s a move to try and stay competitive.
4. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: DAL, DST, KBH, WM, MAR, F, CVX & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
5. BlackRock’s Hambro Sees Commodities Bull Run in 2018
Evy Hambro, who manages BlackRock Inc.’s World Mining Fund, says commodities will enjoy a bull run in 2018 based on synchronous global growth and under-investment in new supply. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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When WhatsApp added encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago the mobile messaging giant significantly raised the bar for the privacy of digital communications worldwide.
At the Real World Crypto security conference Wednesday in Zurich Switzerland a group of researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany plan to describe a series of flaws in encrypted messaging apps including WhatsApp Signal and Threema.
WhatsApp convenient group messaging system in combination with its encryption promises have made it a popular tool for whisper networks of grassroots organizing around sensitive or dangerous topics.
The company announced today that it will not move forward with a planned YouTube Red movie that Paul was supposed to star in at this time as the project is on hold.
light of recent events we have decided to remove Logan channels from Google Preferred a YouTube representative said.
Paul was the subject of backlash after he uploaded a video on during a trip to Japan in which he discovered and filmed the body of man who appeared to have recently committed suicide.
ET Electronics spent more on capital expenditures last year than any other publicly traded company highlighting in dramatic fashion how technology and telecommunications firms are driving an uptick in manufacturing investment.
The South Korean tech giant spent billion in nearly doubling its investment in new or existing facilities making semiconductors displays and other products according to S P Global Market Intelligence estimates that put Samsung atop the global ranking for the first time.
Even at the highest regulated electricity tariff miners can profit from bitcoin as long as worth more than BNEF analysts including Sophie Lu wrote in a report Wednesday.
Digital currency transactions require computer networks with the industry now using as much power as million households according to Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index.
While mining is profitable at the highest regulated electricity price of per in China many companies can take advantage of overcapacity in the sector to negotiate rates as low as Lu wrote.
The social network is testing a new section inside its app called In a feed made up entirely of local news events and announcements.
All of this plays into the broader efforts to cleanse the service of false information local publishers to appear inside this new section of the app should theoretically help keep fake news to a minimum.
And users will eventually be able to follow local cities that they currently live in a childhood hometown for example according to a company spokesperson.
ET Electronics spent more on capital expenditures last year than any other publicly traded company highlighting in dramatic fashion how technology and telecommunications firms are driving an uptick in manufacturing investment.
The South Korean tech giant spent billion in nearly doubling its investment in new or existing facilities making semiconductors displays and other products according to S P Global Market Intelligence estimates that put Samsung atop the global ranking for the first time.
are great concerns regarding virtual currencies and the justice ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through exchanges Park told a news conference according to the press office.
Once a bill is drafted legislation for an outright ban of virtual coin trading will require a majority vote of the total members of the National Assembly a process that could take months or even years.
South Korean financial authorities had previously said they are inspecting six local banks that offer virtual currency accounts to institutions amid concerns the increasing use of such assets could lead to a surge in crime.
The suit accuses Dragon Box of facilitating piracy by making it easy for customers to access illegal streams of movies and TV shows.
The same studios filed a similar complaint in October against TickBox another device that enables users to watch streaming content.
On his LinkedIn page Christoforo advertises the Dragon Box device up a whole new world of possibilities where free movies and TV channels online are.
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by Alpha | Jan 10, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Is the VIX Being Gamed? A Sudden Swoon Has Traders Talking Again
It made for quite a chart.
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ET SHENZHEN Technologies may be considered the bogeyman of the global telecom equipment industry in some Washington circles but in Mountain View a hero.
where Union Wireless a carrier that provides telephone and wireless service to customers in five Western states is singing its praises.
Four years ago Union turned to Huawei after its previous equipment vendor fell behind schedule on a critical network upgrade says Brian Woody customer relations chief.
ET SHENZHEN Technologies may be considered the bogeyman of the global telecom equipment industry in some Washington circles but in Mountain View a hero.
where Union Wireless a carrier that provides telephone and wireless service to customers in five Western states is singing its praises.
Four years ago Union turned to Huawei after its previous equipment vendor fell behind schedule on a critical network upgrade says Brian Woody customer relations chief.
According to Microsoft Intel Haswell processors and older will be impacted the most by a series of firmware updates designed to protect against the Spectre CPU security flaw.
is why you want to be careful to evaluate the risk of untrusted code for each Windows Server instance and balance the security versus performance tradeoff for your environment says Myerson.
For Meltdown and Spectre variant Microsoft has isolated kernel and user mode page tables and hardened Edge and Internet Explorer to protect against JavaScript exploits.
AT T walked away from a deal to sell the Huawei smartphone the Mate to customers in the United States just before the partnership was set to be unveiled two people familiar with the plans said on Tuesday speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were not public.
But last month a group of lawmakers wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing misgivings about a potential deal between Huawei and an unnamed American telecommunications company to sell its consumer products in the United States.
The Justice Department in November sued to block the billion bid for Time Warner a merger that would create a media and telecommunications behemoth with the ability to reach consumers through a wide variety of means.
ET new offensive against social media is showing signs of backfiring.
Authorities in Tehran have ratcheted up their policing of the internet in the past week and a half part of an attempt to stamp out the most protests in Iran since.
But the crackdown is driving millions of Iranians to tech tools that can help them.
AT T walked away from a deal to sell the Huawei smartphone the Mate to customers in the United States just before the partnership was set to be unveiled two people familiar with the plans said on Tuesday speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were not public.
But last month a group of lawmakers wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing misgivings about a potential deal between Huawei and an unnamed American telecommunications company to sell its consumer products in the United States.
The Justice Department in November sued to block the billion bid for Time Warner a merger that would create a media and telecommunications behemoth with the ability to reach consumers through a wide variety of means.
In the summer of former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision he signed a deal with a bank consortium that included an option for its partner to buy billion units of its currency for less than a penny.
In the latest twist in the legal battle Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses of signing the deal in bad faith and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing product.
Big banks are increasingly betting that blockchain software which underpins bitcoin and creates an immutable record of transactions will provide a cheaper and faster alternative to legacy money transfer systems.
Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.
NASHVILLE Jan Reuters President Donald Trump was expected on Monday to sign an executive order to make it easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land and buildings part of a push to expand internet in rural America.
We need it for our tractors we need it for our schools we need it for our businesses a White House official told reporters ahead of speech at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The White House described the moves as an incremental step to help spur private development while the administration figures out what it can do to help with funding something that could become part of plan to invest in infrastructure.
by Alpha | Jan 9, 2018 | Pre-Market
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5. ANTH:$ANTH New Form 4 for Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From our Stock News Alerts App
15. MRK:Eisai & $MRK Receive FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for LENVIMA® and KEYTRUDA® as Combination Therapy for Adv…
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Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
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As such the Direxion application points out that the funds should not be expected to track the performance of the target benchmark for any period longer than one business day.
Watchers of the growing space figured it was only a matter of time before bitcoin ETF applications accelerated after the CME and Cboe greenlighted futures trading.
This is part of the reason why I say digital currency is here to stay said Sheila Warren the World Economic Forum head of blockchain which is the technology that powers cryptocurrencies.
exchange rate probably undercut the earnings by to billion won said Greg Roh an analyst at HMC Investment Securities special bonuses as well as a lot of marketing expenses for smartphones and televisions in the fourth quarter we can expect a steep rise in the operating profit to trillion.
shares hit record highs in before sliding in November after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock citing an expected peak in the memory chips cycle and a slowdown in smartphones.
The de facto chief Jay Lee has been fighting allegations of corruption in court appealing a sentence given in August when he was convicted of bribing a presidential confidante to get greater control of the company.
What was once a measure of verifying whether a Twitter user of public interest was actually who they claimed to be became a sort of status symbol whereby some people including white nationalists were bestowed the honor and others.
However a few accounts have been given blue checkmarks in the last few weeks Michael Wolff author of the new Trump book Fire and Fury and Mick Mulvaney the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are among them.
One of my editors at Fast Company Anjali Khosla was also verified last week after applying a few months ago.
by Alpha | Jan 8, 2018 | Pre-Market
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12. WATT:$WATT + Energous Unveils Industry-First Wireless Charging 2.0 Integrated Circuit Solutions at CES 2018
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1. Five Prime Therapeutics Earns IND Milestone Payment Under Immune Checkpoint Pathways Discovery Collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Announces that BMS has Extended the Research Term of this Collaboration for a Second Time
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc . (Nasdaq: FPRX ), a biotechnology company discovering and developing innovative immuno-oncology protein therapeutics, today announced that it has achieved a milestone for the first Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) (NYSE: BMY ) for a therapeutic candidate under the immune checkpoint pathway discovery collaboration between the companies. The first clinical candidate from the collaboration is a fully-human monoclonal antibody targeting TIM-3 (T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-3), an immune checkpoint receptor that is known to limit the duration and magnitude of T-cell responses 1 . This first IND application triggers a $5 million milestone payment to Five Prime.
2. Acorda Announces 2017 AMPYRA Net Sales and Provides 2018 Financial Guidance at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
AMPYRA 4Q 2017 Net Sales of $166 million ; 2017 Net Sales of $542 million (unaudited) 2017 year-end cash and cash equivalents approximately $300 million (unaudited) AMPYRA 2018 net sales guidance of $330-$350 million Combined 2018 RD and SGA non-GAAP operating expense guidance of $270-$290 million INBRIJA™ (levodopa inhalation powder) NDA resubmitted in December 2017 ; initial FDA response expected in February 2018 Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOR ) reported AMPYRA ® (dalfampridine) Extended Release Tablets, 10 mg unaudited net sales for the fourth quarter of 2017 of $166 million . Unaudited 2017 full-year net sales were $542 million , an increase of approximately 10% from 2016. Final results are subject to completion of the Company’s year-end audit. “In response to the challenges we faced in 2017, we streamlined Acorda to focus on our most important and valuable initiatives. Based on the Company’s proven track record of commercial success in the specialty neurology
3. A new Alzheimer’s drug, once worth billions, is headed for the trash
Axovant Sciences will no longer study intepirdine after finding the drug to be useless against dementia with Lewy bodies.
4. Goldman, Citi Are Said to Be in Lead for Top Roles in Aramco IPO
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is set to appoint Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to help manage its initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said, as the state-owned crude producer pushes ahead with what could be the world’s largest share sale.
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“Another crop of new year price increases, per Jefferies $JAZZ $SHPG $VRX”
6. Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Significantly Improved Recurrence-Free Survival Compared to Placebo as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Stage 3 Resected High-Risk Melanoma (EORTC1325/KEYNOTE-054)
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As far as I know the main net been launched yet Roy van Kaathoven a coder simply interested in the project and not from Tron tells us.
The proposed solution by a number of projects and Tron appears to be no different is the employment of various decentralized technologies such as IPFS and blockchain tech to create distributed data storage.
It is unclear whether Tron follows the exact same approach but the whitepaper does seem to suggest so mentioning hash tags and stating their first phase is the implementation of IPFS to be followed by a blockchain.
ET The iPhone has made Apple and Wall Street hundreds of billions of dollars.
Now some big shareholders are asking at what cost in an unusual campaign to make the company more socially responsible.
A leading activist investor and a pension fund are saying the smartphone maker needs to respond to what some see as a growing crisis of youth phone addiction.
Two days earlier in their lab at Graz University of Technology Moritz Lipp Daniel Gruss and Michael Schwarz had determined to tease out an idea that had nagged at them for weeks a loose thread in the safeguards underpinning how processors defend the most sensitive memory of billions of computers.
His code designed to steal information from the deepest most protected part of a computer operating system known as the kernel no longer spat out random characters but what appeared to be real data siphoned from the sensitive guts of his machine snippets from his web browsing history text from private email conversations.
In fact the bizarre confluence of so many disparate researchers making the same discovery of vulnerabilities raises the question of who else might have found the attacks before who might have secretly used them for spying potentially for years before this week revelations and the flood of software fixes from practically every major tech firm that have rushed to contain the threat.
official launch builds on the platform announcement made late last year with added additional specifications confirmation of the feature set and a series of new products based on Intel with Radeon Graphics are set to be announced this week at CES from Dell HP and Intel own NUC.
Intel is buying the graphics processor from AMD much like any other silicon purchase and as a result involvement is strictly business.
Y SoCs up to for portable fanless designs and U SoCs around for sleek lifestyle products H CPUs around offering more cores for larger enthusiast notebooks G CPUs with additional up to S Desktop processors X A special segment for desktops based on server processors.
Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
Facebook was getting blasted for the spread of fake news contributing to filter bubbles and doing too little to help publishers make money on the platform.
learned a great deal from our partners over the past year and together we made significant strides in areas like increasing monetization and support for subscriptions improving brand recognition for publishers and news literacy and investing in training programs and tools like data insights.
I think Facebook executives get enough credit for the ways they enable publishers to communicate with audiences and monetize and they stand there and take full blast from the entire industry said Nicholas Carlson chief content officer of Business Insider.
The fastest previous Intel NUC machine was the model that featured a gen Skylake CPU and Iris Pro graphics.
From what Intel has claimed Core CPUs with the version of the custom Radeon RX Vega M will reach up to GeForce GTX levels of gaming performance.
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Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going direct to Heaven we were all going direct the other way in short the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This post is written with the intention of being neutral and has been reviewed by supporters from both sides who believe it is a reasonably fair representation of the arguments from each camp.
I ran a poll on my twitter trying to find out what aspects of Bitcoin were most appealing only had options and unsurprisingly of people cared about censorship resistance in that they would have to run their own node and validate transactions.
