by Alpha | Nov 27, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. ARWR:$ARWR upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper. PT $5.50
2. CIEN:$CIEN upgraded to Buy from Neutral at BofA/Merrill through $21 has room to $24 use 20 as a STOP
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4. SQ:$SQ SQUARE downgraded to SELL at BTIG with a $30 tgt Bitcoin Trial Makes It Hip to Be SQ, But Stock’s Rally Overdone
7. MU:$MU – down pre mkt but at 16 year resistance lvl I’m not shocked.
11. NXTD:$NXTD cryptopayment and Blockchain still unfound
15. BMRN:$BMRN BioMarin Sells Second Priority Review Voucher for $125 Million
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2. DealBook Briefing: Will Time Inc. Get Smaller Under New Ownership?
Meredith finally struck a deal to buy the embattled publisher, but the media world wants to know whether it will keep titles like Time and Fortune.
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Just a few weeks after Novartis $NVS spelled out exactly why it believes RTH258 can carve out a blockbuster chunk of Regeneron’s AMD market for Eylea, its big rival says that a next-gen combo won’t be riding to their rescue. Early Monday Regeneron $REGN said both Phase II studies of
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Questions over the FBI handling of Fancy Bear broad hacking sweep date to March when agents arrived unannounced at Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn to warn her campaign about a surge of rogue emails.
The expectation that the government is going to protect everyone and go back to everyone is false said Nicholas Eftimiades a retired senior technical officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who teaches homeland security at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg and was himself among the targets.
Rob Butch Bracknell a military veteran who works as a NATO lawyer in Norfolk Virginia said an FBI agent visited him about a year ago to examine his emails and warn him that a foreign actor was trying to break into his account.
Please share with the rest of us what else you find on a free internet will always be filled with competing narratives but reproducible data analyses can establish a ground truth and help cut through all of that.
As it turns out the next two highest comments on the list Chairman Tom and unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed have already been picked out from previous reporting as possible astroturf as well.
² Full disclosure I was a summer law clerk for Commissioner Clyburn in and though I greatly admire her recent work championing net neutrality the opinions and POV in this post are my own.
Please share with the rest of us what else you find on a free internet will always be filled with competing narratives but reproducible data analyses can establish a ground truth and help cut through all of that.
As it turns out the next two highest comments on the list Chairman Tom and unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed have already been picked out from previous reporting as possible astroturf as well.
² Full disclosure I was a summer law clerk for Commissioner Clyburn in and though I greatly admire her recent work championing net neutrality the opinions and POV in this post are my own.
Max Ventilla a Google executive who left the search giant to launch AltSchool in wooed parents with his vision to bring traditional models of elementary education into the digital age.
Many parents remembered their surprise when in the spring of Ventilla announced onstage at South by Southwest that the startup would begin soliciting partners specifically other private schools interested in adopting the AltSchool model and licensing its software.
A parent told Business Insider that she figured the startup which has poached talent from Google Uber Airbnb and Zynga would provide technology as a supplement to human instruction.
chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to eliminate even the most basic net neutrality protections including the ban on blocking replacing them with a regime enforced by the Federal Trade Commission.
From what we know so far rationale for eliminating the rules is that cable and phone companies despite years of healthy profit need to earn even more money than they already do that is that the current rates of return do not yield adequate investment incentives.
Because he is killing net neutrality outright not merely weakening it he will have to explain to a court not just the shift from but also his reasoning for destroying the basic bans on blocking and throttling which have been in effect since and have been relied on extensively by the entire internet ecosystem.
Questions over the FBI handling of Fancy Bear broad hacking sweep date to March when agents arrived unannounced at Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn to warn her campaign about a surge of rogue emails.
The expectation that the government is going to protect everyone and go back to everyone is false said Nicholas Eftimiades a retired senior technical officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who teaches homeland security at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg and was himself among the targets.
Rob Butch Bracknell a military veteran who works as a NATO lawyer in Norfolk Virginia said an FBI agent visited him about a year ago to examine his emails and warn him that a foreign actor was trying to break into his account.
Max Ventilla a Google executive who left the search giant to launch AltSchool in wooed parents with his vision to bring traditional models of elementary education into the digital age.
Many parents remembered their surprise when in the spring of Ventilla announced onstage at South by Southwest that the startup would begin soliciting partners specifically other private schools interested in adopting the AltSchool model and licensing its software.
A parent told Business Insider that she figured the startup which has poached talent from Google Uber Airbnb and Zynga would provide technology as a supplement to human instruction.
On both Thanksgiving and Black Friday the gap between mobile traffic and revenue is closing said Mickey Mericle VP of marketing and customer insights at Adobe.
Black Friday and the subsequent pool of days that has spread around it are significant for consumers because they get a chance to buy items at a deep discount to their normal prices.
They are significant for online retailers because they set the pace and are a bellwether for the rest of November and December traditionally the most important time of the year for their businesses to rack up holiday sales.
Credit Illustration by Andrew Rae For decades after its Communist revolution in China was known as kingdom of The Flying Pigeons that swarmed the streets were not simply a cheap mode of transportation.
All it takes is a smartphone to find the nearest bike via GPS to scan its QR code and open its smartlocks and to pay a minuscule fee usually cents or less per ride through a app.
Continue reading the main story Cities around the world have embraced the sharing economy Seoul Amsterdam Milan but China is the first country to frame it as a While innovation be conjured on demand Beijing has financed incubators offered tax incentives formed think tanks and kept foreign competitors away.
by Alpha | Nov 17, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. DRYS:Amusing that IB has 300K shares of $DRYS but none of the other shippers du jour.
6. ES:$ES Dailies overnights ranging, correcting 15/60m OB with 3am algo hour dip 2579.50 gets 15m mid range; full repair…
12. DCIX:$DCIX 9 psych
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1. General Electric Chairman and CEO John Flannery discloses purchase of 60,000 shares
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2. Comcast Approached 21st Century Fox Over Acquisition Interest
Comcast Corp has approached 21st Century Fox and expressed in interest in an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter. It is unclear whether Comcast is interested in buying all or part of Fox.
3. Tesla shares pop after trucker JB Hunt reserves ‘multiple’ Tesla Semi tractor trailers
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4. David Undercoffler on Twitter
“Roadster deposits begin today. $50k. Base model starts at $200k total. First 1000 models will be Founder’s Series and are $250k paid entirely upfront.”
5. Acorda Announces Royalty Monetization Transactions for $53 Million
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) announced a $40 million royalty monetization with HealthCare Royalty Partners (HCR) and a $13 million royalty
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Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates get to know how your peers think and learn new skills.
Our servers never see your files or edits which maximizes your privacy and minimizes latency between you and your collaborators regardless of your proximity to our data centers.
As we continue along our roadmap and take Teletype beyond beta we hope to see community contributors build on and extend it to other editors.
ET Digital publisher BuzzFeed is on track to miss its revenue target this year by a significant amount the latest sign that troubles in the business are making it tough for upstarts to live up to lofty expectations.
BuzzFeed one of several outfits that have grown quickly in recent years had been targeting revenue of around million in but is expected to fall short of that figure by about to people familiar with the matter said.
BuzzFeed said in a statement that it would still.
This created two instances in the Python runtime sym the symbolic graph and params the weights.
The following steps download an example image resize it to the expected input shape and finally convert it into a numpy array.
Next from your Python shell run the code to prepare the image in the MXNet NDArray format.
dominated in the with the mainframe computer Digital Equipment in the with the transition to Microsoft and Intel as PCs ramped and finally Apple and Google as cellphones became ubiquitous wrote Jefferies equity analyst Mark Lipacis in a July note to clients.
A triangular foil to circular new headquarters six miles shape is drawn from the building block of computer graphics the glassy facade rises up over the San Tomas Expressway like the bow of a starship coming into port.
When I finally locate Huang he is wearing his signature leather moto jacket and nibbling on breaded chicken strips from a cup as he strides across the sprawling cafeteria with at least two dozen employees and their families in tow.
summoned by a push notification and then for to minutes Rogowsky bellows trivia questions was Frederic Chopin born of these celebrities has Sean Penn never married enthusiastically at you from your screen.
Winners were awarded sweepstakes tickets and later Microsoft Points instead of cash and players were represented by Xbox Live avatars all crammed inside an animated television studio that looked like Who Wants to Be A Millionaire meets Hollywood Squares via Reboot.
The difference between these earlier versions of interactive TV and HQ Trivia boils down to the video broadcast quality which is high the cash money prizes which are plentiful and Scott.
This includes giving bot builders the ability to understand what works to increase customer conversions improve the accuracy and create a better user experience.
The system today integrates with any voice or text messaging platform Google says including Facebook Kik Viber Slack WhatsApp WeChat Alexa Cortana Allo Line Skype Twitter and more.
Instead of combing through logs we rely on its capability to help prioritize required optimizations saving precious time that we need to focus on building new features Viber added.
And while unclear what final policy will look like the introduction of offline behavior to the Twitter rules adds an unpredictable new dimension to its efforts.
Kessler a white supremacist who organized the United the Right rally in Charlottesville in August kicked off the latest controversy over rules when his account was verified last week.
agents have been following our verification policy correctly CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted on we realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be Twitter stopped verifying new accounts and said it would develop a new program.
AdBasis has published a note on its site indicating that the deal closed on November and that its team will continue to work on digital creative testing and optimization technology at Airbnb.
AdBasis was by Jason Puckett and Joe DiVita in Chicago and not clear how many people worked there or how many will join Airbnb.
Its tools include the ability to track revenue and how changes to an content bidding targeting and other parameters impact its performance.
by Alpha | Nov 13, 2017 | Pre-Market
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2. GILD:$GILD downgraded to Hold from Buy at Argus.
3. TEVA:$TEVA downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JP Morgan
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2. JD:39% increase in net revenues, 51% increase in gross profits $JD
8. CMG:$CMG They’re terrible and I almost died’: Supergirl star Jeremy Jordan hospitalized after eating Chipot…
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1. Biotech portfolio updates – Esperion, Abeona , Sage and adding two more GTx names | Open Reading Frame
It has been a hectic 5 months here at Pontifax (10 new investments, some yet to be announced) so unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of time to publish new posts. Going forward, I will try to make posts more concise so I’ll be able to publish stuff also during busy periods.Today, I will focus on what I consider to be the three winners in the portfolio in 2017 so far, not only from a stock performance but also from a strategic development perspective. All three will have important readouts in the coming 6 months.
2. Meg Tirrell on Twitter
“Forget $PFE + $BMY, BMO’s Alex Arfaei says. Suggests $PFE should buy $BIIB”
3. Tyson Foods tops profit estimates as low-cost feed provides boost
U.S. meat processor Tyson Foods Inc’s (TSN.N) quarterly earnings and revenue topped analysts’ forecasts, as its chicken and beef businesses benefited from strong demand as well as lower costs to buy animal feed.
4. Charley Grant on Twitter
“$GE projects negative FCF conversion in 2017 for its power business”
5. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GE, TSN, QCOM, AVGO, UPS, FDX & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
6. General Electric slashes its divided by 50%
General Electric cuts its dividend 50% to $0.12 a share.
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It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
In each of these countries Facebook has become an accidental political juggernaut providing public evidence used by authoritarian governments to imprison liberals and journalists for expressing dissent and amplifying the reach of racist demagogues whose dangerous and false diatribes happen to collect a lot of rabid clicks.
The roots of ethnic hatreds in Myanmar run deep but a recent flurry of fake news posts including doctored photos of Rohingya supposedly burning their own homes or attacking Burmese Buddhists has stoked popular support or at least tolerance for the hardline approach.
are going to need to build up their capacity to get further into the game talking with all the stakeholders from civil society business and government to ensure they know the political and social context and are prepared to respond in a substantive rights respecting He adds entrust their private and public lives to this platform so decisions need to have customer and communications need to reflect.
In each of these countries Facebook has become an accidental political juggernaut providing public evidence used by authoritarian governments to imprison liberals and journalists for expressing dissent and amplifying the reach of racist demagogues whose dangerous and false diatribes happen to collect a lot of rabid clicks.
The roots of ethnic hatreds in Myanmar run deep but a recent flurry of fake news posts including doctored photos of Rohingya supposedly burning their own homes or attacking Burmese Buddhists has stoked popular support or at least tolerance for the hardline approach.
are going to need to build up their capacity to get further into the game talking with all the stakeholders from civil society business and government to ensure they know the political and social context and are prepared to respond in a substantive rights respecting He adds entrust their private and public lives to this platform so decisions need to have customer and communications need to reflect.
As a reporter who has covered technology for more than two decades I am familiar with the usual forms of internet harassment gangs that bring down a website haters who post your home address online troll armies that hurl insults on a social network.
At its worst it veers into the territory of what researcher Susan Benesch calls dangerous speech the type of propaganda that has historically been used in places like Rwanda and Germany to convince people to commit violence.
Krebs tried to warn his local police that he was a likely swatting target but that stop them from dispatching a team to his house in after he had exposed a criminal underground forum selling Social Security numbers and credit reports.
It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
The specific security page mentions that Google is pushing out only the update to devices leaving OEMs to deal with the rest.
In the case of the video after breaking they find an improperly configured use a tool called sslstrip to bypass the HTTPS protections that are normally there on the login page.
Since these patches are the responsibility of the vendor Qualcomm Broadcom Nvidia etc and require coordination with Google and the OEM they can take longer to fix.
Alibaba has set another Day record after the giant sold over billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.
In case that predominantly means its Taobao marketplace and Tmall brand store although it does offer sales via its international services and it ships worldwide.
The numbers also signal a return to growth for Day sales an important area that investors will look at and Alibaba needs to show progress on.
Bloomberg first reported on the agreement that was struck this weekend to bring to an end to the acrimony between former CEO and Uber Travis Kalanick and its major investor Benchmark.
would have happened sooner but the paranoia on both sides never let up said one source close to the situation who noted that an ultimatum to end the investment move by other board members and new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at a meeting yesterday finally broke the impasse.
Other Uber early employees would become millionaires many times over if they sell too so San Francisco real estate sales people will have Christmas in um December I guess.
by Alpha | Nov 9, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. VIX:Looks like $VIX may see a 10% gap up this morning. Will be interested to see if dip buyers step back into large caps and if vol gets sold.
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7. ES_F:~2000 contract buy order at 2575 — just below. That looks like a Fed support type order $ES_F S&P 500 futures
11. PRGO:Big numbers from $PRGO. Must confess I didn’t see that one coming.
12. GOLD:#Commodities #Traders Check the #Charts on $Gold $DJP & #Copper as they give Long Term Buy Signal >>…
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1. Sage Therapeutics Announces Brexanolone Achieves Primary Endpoints in Both Phase 3 Clinical Trials in Postpartum Depression | Sage Therapeutics, Inc.
The Investor Relations website contains information about Sage Therapeutics, Inc.’s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
2. Merck Receives FDA Approval of PREVYMIS™ (letermovir) for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Disease in Adult Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Patients | Merck Newsroom Home
KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVYMIS™ (letermovir) once-daily tablets for oral use and injection for intravenous infusion.
3. Brad Loncar on Twitter
“Now that Astra has reported, here’s a snapshot of the PARP race. $AZN $CLVS $TSRO”
4. Kohls is getting whacked after missing earnings
Kohl’s said recent hurricanes led to store closures in the affected areas, which put a damper on the company’s sales.
5. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Five Prime Present Phase 1a/1b Data Evaluating Cabiralizumab (anti-CSF-1 receptor antibody) with Opdivo (nivolumab) in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors (NASDAQ:FPRX)
6. Macy’s earnings top estimates, shares climb
Macy’s CEO has said the retailer “[isn’t] ready to declare when we will get back to positive” same-store sales.
7. Sage Therapeutics drug reduces postpartum depression in two late-stage clinical trials
Sage Therapeutics reported positive results Thursday from clinical trials of its lead drug brexanolone in women suffering from postpartum depression.
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Many Chinese businesses and the government use Facebook to reach an international Ng Han Press During time in the congressional hot seat last week Senator John Kennedy a Republican from Louisiana asked whether China had also run ads to affect the United States election.
CCTV leading television broadcaster spreads propaganda overseas as well as at Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Recently for example Xinhua posted an article titled IP protection system works well says a rebuke of a congressional investigation into Chinese trade policies that critics say encourage intellectual property theft.
A more anodyne post offered a attempt to find common ground between China and the United States pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the close relationship.
The upgrade was scheduled to take effect around November in an effort to increase the speed and cost of bitcoin transactions.
As fees rise for bitcoin transactions the developers said they hoped the digital currency community could find agreement on how to solve the problem.
For most of this year investors have had a negative view on bitcoin splits out of uncertainty over the digital currency future.
The Financial Times first reported on Wednesday citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the negotiations that T has been told by the Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN to get its acquisition of the media company.
was the groundwork for a potential lawsuit the merger which would marry a telecom titan that owns more than million smartphones and the Midtown parent entity of media and entertainment stalwarts including CNN HBO and Warner whose premium content offerings are ripe for its mobile devices.
But surely people involved in the deal and those watching it closely both figured the leak about the possible a newspaper owned by Trump ally Rupert Murdoch worth just be a negotiating tactic as the two sides go back and forth to clear the final regulatory hurdle.
The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision but what he said was so unnerving that a DNC official curled up in a ball on her conference room chair as if watching a horror movie.
A political outsider who got the job essentially at random the DNC literally called up sales desk Johnston was the lead investigator who determined the nature and scope of the hack one he described less as a stealth burglary than as a brazen ransacking.
well aware of the grim fact that it was his analysis that helped lay the groundwork that would eventually lead to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller to multiple probes on Capitol Hill and to the findings about intervention on Facebook and Twitter.
Many Chinese businesses and the government use Facebook to reach an international Ng Han Press During time in the congressional hot seat last week Senator John Kennedy a Republican from Louisiana asked whether China had also run ads to affect the United States election.
CCTV leading television broadcaster spreads propaganda overseas as well as at Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Recently for example Xinhua posted an article titled IP protection system works well says a rebuke of a congressional investigation into Chinese trade policies that critics say encourage intellectual property theft.
A more anodyne post offered a attempt to find common ground between China and the United States pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the close relationship.
Last SlideNext Slide Committee member Colin Garfield said the issue of broadband appealed to people who might not otherwise pay attention to local politics or vote in elections.
Fort Collins proposes building a based network that would cover the entire city and its growth management area which is land expected to be eventually be annexed.
In Fort Collins voters exempted the city from a state law that prohibits local governments from competing with private industry in providing telecommunications services including internet.
Earlier this summer Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which hackers claimed to have access to million user accounts and one was selling them online.
But nothing smooth about this hack said sources which became known in August when an infamous cybercriminal named claimed on a website that he was selling credentials of million Yahoo users from on the dark web for just over.
The confirmation of such an extensive hack is another blemish on the record of CEO Marissa Mayer a vaunted former Google exec who has presided over numerous declines in the business since she arrived four years ago.
A bitcoin transaction wastes as much electricity as it takes to power an American home for a week and legendary coder Bram Cohen wants to fix that.
After inventing torrenting in the early and briefly working on Steam for Valve Cohen had been at BitTorrent building a new protocol for live video transfer.
Cohen has teamed up with early bitcoin exchange COO Ryan Singer and raised a seed round for Chia to ramp up hiring.
Startups want more space to exhibit founders want more workshops TechCrunch editors want to deliver more programming and everyone wants more room to conduct meetings and get work done.
Making that possible will be signature Disrupt features such as CrunchMatch which connects founders and investors offers sidebar programming which brings speakers and attendees together for moderated discussions and our Showcase stage where exhibiting startups pitch their stories.
If the proud recipient of a past Crunchie Monkey hold onto it because it just became part of a finite supply and thus infinitely valuable you know like bitcoin.
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1. Paper: High Durable CR Rates in Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) Aggressive B-NHL Treated with the CD19-Directed CAR T Cell Product JCAR017 (TRANSCEND NHL 001): Defined Composition Allows for Dose-Finding and Definition of Pivotal Cohort
Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, MMSc 1 , Maria Lia Palomba, MD 2 , Leo I. Gordon, MD 3 , Matthew A. Lunning, DO 4 , Jon E. Arnason, MD 5 , Michael Wang, MD 6 , Andres Forero, MD 7 * , David G. Maloney, MD, PhD 8 , Tina Albertson, MD 9 , Jacob Garcia, MD 9 , Daniel Li, PhD 10 * , Benhuai Xie, PhD 10 * and Tanya Siddiqi, MD 11
2. bluebird bio Reports Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results and Recent Operational Progress
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3. Short Interest Stock Short Selling Data, Shorts, Stocks: Short Squeeze
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4. Kerrisdale Capital on Twitter
“We’ve bought 7% of a heavily shorted biotech that’s worth 4x+ higher than current trading levels. Releasing report tomorrow.”
5. With tweaks to gene therapy, Bluebird Bio makes progress in sickle cell
Bluebird’s uneven quest to develop a gene therapy for sickle cell advanced with new data showing tweaks to the process had improved results in two patients.
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7. Bluebird touts early signs that its new-and-improved sickle cell gene therapy is working
Bluebird bio $BLUE says they’ve been able to gather evidence to help prove that their new-and-improved approach to making a gene therapy for sickle cell disease has the potential to be a consistently effective once-and-done therapy. Following up on some disappointing evidence of inconsistency among the first small group of
8. Celgene Prices $3 Billion of Senior Unsecured Notes
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced the successful pricing of three series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount o
9. Wal-Mart triples online items, lowers prices as holiday season kicks in
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to boost sales and fend off rivals this holiday season by doubling down on incentives for shoppers who buy online and those who visit its stores.
10. uniQure Announces Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results and Recent Company Progress
LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE ), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2017 and highlighted recent progress across its business.
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Stories open our hearts to a new place which opens our minds which often leads to action.
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algorithms Facebook sets up that prioritize and control shown in its powerful newsfeed are a lot more consequential than the ads said Zeynep Tufekci an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who closely follows social media and technology.
Investigators believe the Internet Research Agency a troll farm that has been linked to the Kremlin amassed enormous followings for various Facebook Pages that masqueraded as destinations for discussion about all sorts of issues from the Black Lives Matter movement to gun ownership.
But in meetings at Menlo Park headquarters and in Washington Facebook employees have expressed concern that such a move could have effects on other publications and content makers that are not spreading false or divisive news.
ET Democrats and Republicans alike opened a hearing Tuesday into attempt to spread disinformation on social media by lamenting the efforts during the presidential election stressing the need for Facebook Google and Twitter to prevent it from happening ever again.
For Dianne Feinstein the concern is that RT continued to participate in a key Google advertising program even after the intelligence community in a report issued this January flagged the news network as a propaganda arm of the Kremlin.
And Coons challenged Stretch to explain why exactly it had taken the company months to share detailed findings about Russian disinformation particularly given reports that President Barack Obama approached Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the problem well before that.
ET Apple departed from its traditional preview strategy for what it bills as its most important new iPhone in years prioritizing early access to the iPhone X for YouTube personalities and celebrities over most technology columnists who traditionally review its new products.
Apple provided the iPhone X to a small number of traditional testers for about a week while limiting most others The Wall Street Journal included to a single day with the device before reviews could be published.
The removal of that bit of hardware which stopped being a true button with the iPhone haptics give the sensation of movement where there is none meant Apple could drop the that dead space below the screen.
There is no other way to describe the black area at the top center of otherwise perfect screen than It cuts a near space out of the OLED display and grants the rights to incredibly eight different components including the earpiece speaker this is still a phone a microphone the front camera a proximity sensor hey your face is close to me.
However increasingly the playing field is leveling out as Samsung lowers the color saturation to a more vibe Portrait Mode become more common and upstarts like Google prove they can learn from everyone else and start off strong.
The flaws highlight a fundamental question that will be asked this week when internet companies testify in front of Congressional committees How responsible should Facebook Google and Twitter be for information others distribute through their systems.
A few days after President Donald Trump November election win Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said it was crazy to think fake news had swayed voters.
Facebook expects this manual work to help the company improve its algorithm over time so it can get smarter at automatically spotting patterns and figuring out what stories might be worth showing to human partners even before flagged by users.
The short answer is they and that drew questioning from a Congressional probe today into Facebook Twitter and Google being used to manipulate the presidential election.
do you deal with the problem of a legitimate and lawful but phony American shell corporation one that calls itself say for Puppies and Prosperity that has a drop box as its address and a million checkin its check book that using to spend to manipulate election outcomes.
This issue of advertiser identity and how deep tech platforms are required to investigate it could emerge as key to whether these companies are allowed to or whether the government will step in.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing entitled Content and Russian Disinformation Online Working with Tech to Find scheduled for Tuesday October at will now be in Room of the Hart Senate Office Building.
Sean Edgett Acting General Counsel Twitter San Francisco CA.
Individuals with disabilities who require an auxiliary aid or service should contact the committee clerk at at least three business days in advance of the hearing date.
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Facebook does not police the billions of posts and status updates that flow through the site worldwide each day relying instead on an oftentimes confusing set of and reports by users of direct threats that are then manually assessed and in some cases removed.
Facebook has no office in Myanmar but the company has worked with local partners to introduce a illustrated copy of its platform standards and will to its practices said a spokeswoman Clare Wareing in an emailed statement.
Human rights groups say the approach has allowed opinion facts and misinformation to mingle on Facebook clouding perceptions of truth and propaganda in a country where mobile technology has been widely adopted only in the past three years.
long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains like for the US for England or for Japan but that be the case any more after today.
be able to change locations just have to do it through the settings menu at the bottom of which willing to bet never noticed before because hidden in the corner on the desktop and requires you to scroll down on mobile I know it existed before today.
Google says making the change because one out of five searches related to location and the company feels critical to offer local information to provide the best results.
And for users it could mean the difference between truly helpful tools that provide time saving guidance through daily tasks and new art forms versus highly distracting and confusing experiences that create greater tensions and barriers within communities.
This line will be drawn in part from a pure ethical standpoint for instance one might argue that a work shared with just a handful of friends is harmless but one that is generally available and prompted for when people walk by is more of a public statement.
Already large data companies have created maps of cities and it is inevitable that more and more types of digital content will populate these databases for instance information from Wikipedia LinkedIn or Facebook about a person who lives at a particular address or an organization that is based there.
Facebook does not police the billions of posts and status updates that flow through the site worldwide each day relying instead on an oftentimes confusing set of and reports by users of direct threats that are then manually assessed and in some cases removed.
Facebook has no office in Myanmar but the company has worked with local partners to introduce a illustrated copy of its platform standards and will to its practices said a spokeswoman Clare Wareing in an emailed statement.
Human rights groups say the approach has allowed opinion facts and misinformation to mingle on Facebook clouding perceptions of truth and propaganda in a country where mobile technology has been widely adopted only in the past three years.
I found the display a noticeable and greatly pleasurable advance over my iPhone whether watching The Big Sick streaming a live football game or simply swiping through Instagram.
I can report that the photos I did snap look super sharp and when I took a series of shots looking out of the Backchannel office window at World Trade Center the telephoto lens captured clearer images than my previous phones.
a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where just there phone screen one that turns on simply by seeing you one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables.
Readers know that I have been and continue to be excited about the emerging opportunity and I believe it represents the next big wave of innovation in the tech sector upon which many important companies products and technologies will be built.
I have also written a lot about our portfolio companies that are working in this sector and have even mentioned the tokens that they are issuing.
And the celebrities and others who promote them on their social media channels in an effort to enrich themselves are behaving badly and possibly violating securities laws.
Over the last couple years we have been courted by you worked closely with you on promotion creation and even website features and have been assured by you that Patreon was a home for all types of creators including those that make adult content.
As journalist Violet Blue noted are barred from Facebook Instagram Paypal MailChimp Squarespace Square Kickstarter Chase Snapchat Add that Tumblr and other sites make us unfindable.
Patreon is saying that they believe sex workers unable to change or censor their work to fit new requirements should lose their income and that legal expressions of sexual creativity do not have a home on their platform.
But the story of Centra illustrates that beneath the signs of mainstream acceptance coin offerings still exist in a legal gray zone with few checks on the ambitions of young entrepreneurs.
undeniable that a celebrity endorsement brings a new audience into the world of crypto currencies said Peter Van Valkenburgh the director of research at Coin Center a nonprofit that advocates for Bitcoin and related technology.
According to a local news report Sharma ran a stop sign and had flushed face a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and watery and bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his.
In September our CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about the initial steps we were taking to help protect the integrity of elections both in the United States and around the world.
For political advertisers that do not proactively disclose themselves we are building machine learning tools that will help us find them and require them to verify their identity.
And we will continue to work with our industry partners lawmakers and our entire community to better ensure transparency and accountability in our advertising products.
But the story of Centra illustrates that beneath the signs of mainstream acceptance coin offerings still exist in a legal gray zone with few checks on the ambitions of young entrepreneurs.
undeniable that a celebrity endorsement brings a new audience into the world of crypto currencies said Peter Van Valkenburgh the director of research at Coin Center a nonprofit that advocates for Bitcoin and related technology.
According to a local news report Sharma ran a stop sign and had flushed face a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and watery and bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his.
