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created one of the smallest wireless video cameras in the world capable of taking a worth of Snaps on a single charge and we integrated it seamlessly into a fun pair of sunglasses available in different colors.

We hope that this change will improve your experience with Snapchat and Spectacles and create a structure that allows us to continue making great new products for you and your friends.

Geostickers are available now in Los Angeles New York City San Francisco Washington DC Honolulu London Sydney São Paulo Paris and Riyadh.

2. Competition is supposed to lower prices. Algorithms are doing the opposite.

ET ROTTERDAM the recent afternoon at a station on the outskirts of this Dutch city the price of a gallon of unleaded gas started ticking higher rising more than cents by closing time.

A little later a competing station miles down the road raised its price about the same amount.

The two stations are among thousands of companies that use software to set prices.

3. Amazon’s Echo Show looks great. It’s amazing that it’s Amazon doing this device and not Microsoft, Google, or Apple

Rating is available when the video has been rented.

Watch video flash briefings and YouTube control smart home devices like lights and cameras plus see music lyrics photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.

Talk with anyone who has an Echo Echo Dot or the Alexa App or drop in for a live visit over video with other Echo Show owners AskAlexa.

4. Introducing the Amazon Echo Show, for all those people who want a non-portable 7” $230 tablet!

Watch video flash briefings and YouTube see music lyrics security cameras photos weather forecasts and shopping lists and more.

These enable people speak to it in regular phrases to get answers from a vast database of information or to command it to do things for you along the lines of what you might have in the past ordered or purchased through a web interface or via an app.

The Look takes that one step further by bringing in computer vision including a camera to expand the kinds of functionality and responses provided by the Echo.

5. Congratulations to @remix on raising $10M from @sequoia to help local governments build better public transit:

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6. With $52M from Lightspeed and Cisco, Gainsight is closer to becoming the 1st customer success unicorn:

7. Echo Show looks neat, but big risk to open up that 1:1 comparison with a phone.

The Show has the same basic capabilities as the regular Echo like setting timers and listening to music but the display adds plenty of new functionality.

Amazon says the device can also be connected to security cameras letting users check their video feed with commands like show me the front.

Amazon says it imagines this feature will only be used in a small number of scenarios like checking in on an elderly relative.

8. Just in time for its first earnings report, Snapchat adds new creative tools —>

Snapchat added a set of new creative tools to its arsenal today amid a growing rivalry with army of clones most notably Instagram.

Starting today you can create a virtual pen out of emoji letting you spell out a word out of smiley faces or hearts.

changes allow us to continue evolving the Snapchat service and provide a foundation for introducing even more creative tools for making fun snaps the company said in a blog post.

9. Apple will now know exactly when you dream about an updated Mac Pro, or a headphone jack, and apply electric shocks

latest product the Beddit is a thin strip of sensors that goes across a bed analyzing data such as time and efficiency heart rate respiration temperature movement snoring room temperature and room humidity according to a product description.

expect to see an mattress popping up any time soon chances are the folks in Cupertino are more interested in the methods of measuring sleep quality.

What happens long term is unclear as Apple very rarely acquires companies that continue to operate independently though recent acquisition Workflow just received an update that added functionality as well as maintenance.

10. Bravo @benchmark. 7% women in partner roles is awful, but glad to see this small first step. Congrats @sarahtravel!

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by Alpha | May 9, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. CLNT:

$CLNT Cleantech Solutions Sells Ownership Interest to YSK1860, Divesting 416K Shares for $2.33/Sh -SI

2. VRX:

$VRX Valeant swings to profit on tax gain, raises forecast – Reuters

3. W:

$W Wayfair Announces First Quarter 2017 Results – BW

4. REPH:

$REPH Recro Pharma Reports Top-Line Results from Phase III Safety Study of IV Meloxicam – SI

5. BSM:

$BSM Black Stone Minerals, L.P. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results and Declares Cash Distribution – BW

6. NVMI:

$NVMI Nova Measuring Instruments Tops Q1 EPS by 9c, Beats on Revenue; Strong 2Q EPS/Rev Guidance – SI

7. SNGX:

$SNGX Soligenix Announce Receipt of Japanese Patent for ThermoVax Vaccine Heat Stabilization Platform

8. CAMT:

$CAMT Camtek Ltd Tops Q1 EPS by 4c, Beats on Revenue; Positive Q2 Revenue Guidance – SI

9. FN:

$FN Fabrinet +10%, among top gainers after Q3 revenue beat – SA

10. NVAX:

$NVAX Novavax Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – SI

11. ODP:

$ODP Office Depot profit beats estimates as costs drop – Reuters

12. QTNA:

$QTNA Quantenna Announces First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – GN

13. ENDP:

$ENDP Endo profit tops estimates on strong sales of new generic drugs – Reuters

14. RGR:

$RGR Sturm Ruger Tops Q1 EPS by 18c, Approves $100M Buyback – SI

15. BTX:

$BTX BioTime Reports New Data from OpRegen Trial in Dry-AMD at ARVO Meeting – SI

16. MAR:

$MAR Marriott Earnings Beat As Travel Stocks Fly – IBD

17. LNTH, TDW:

$LNTH Lantheus Holdings Inc. will replace Tidewater Inc. $TDW in the S&P SmallCap 600

18. P:

$P Pandora Announces $150M Investment from KKR – SI

19. RAD, WBA:

$RAD Walgreens $WBA, Rite Aid Certify Substantial Compliance with FTC Second Request – SI

20. PNR:

$PNR Pentair Announces Intent To Separate Into Two Industry-Leading Public Companies – PRN

21. EXAR, MXL:

$MXL MaxLinear Inc. will replace Exar Corp. $EXAR in the S&P SmallCap 600 – PRN

22. ZBRA:

$ZBRA Zebra Technologies Tops Q1 EPS by 7c, Offers Outlook – SI

23. BLDR:

$BLDR Builders FirstSource beats Street 1Q forecasts – AP

24. OAS:

$OAS Oasis Petroleum posts Q1 beat, plans for IPO of some midstream assets – SA

25. P:

$P Pandora shares whipsaw amid earnings, massive investment, boardroom shakeup and strategic review

26. HSIC:

$HSIC Henry Schein Reports Record First Quarter Financial Results – PRN

27. TDOC:

$TDOC Teladoc Q1 Loss Lower Than Expected, ’17 View Intact – Zacks

28. AGN:

$AGN Allergan Beats Q1 Earnings & Sales; Ups 2017 View – Zacks

29. VVV:

$VVV Valvoline Set to Join S&P MidCap 400

30. FDC:

$FDC China’s Alipay Grabs Slice of U.S. Market With First Data Deal – BBG

31. JNJ:

$JNJ J&J discloses U.S. probe related to arthritis drugs – Reuters

32. SNY:

$SNY Sanofi vows to limit 2017 price hikes to 5.4% as part of new ‘holistic’ policy – Fierce Pharma

33. VZ:

$VZ Verizon does not see an urgent need to undertake a big strategic merger or acquisition – Reuters

34. DF:

$DF Dean Foods Q1 Adj. Profit Misses View; But Reiterates FY17 Outlook – RTT

35. PPG: $PPG Elliott Takes Akzo Nobel to Court to Oust Chairman in PPG Bid Battle – WSJ

36. EBAY: $EBAY Sohn Contest Winner Dillon Adelman Long Idea is eBay – SI

37. WFC:

$WFC Wells Fargo Said to Explore Sale of Insurance Brokerage Unit – BBG

38. CBOE:

$CBOE CBOE Holdings Reports First-Quarter 2017 Results – PRN

39. OTEX:

$OTEX Open Text misses profit estimates as costs weigh – Globe & Mail

40. AFSI:

$AFSI AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Net Income Per Diluted Share of $0.13

41. DISCA:

$DISCA Discovery Communications reports Q1 earnings below expectations as subscribers cut the cord

42. JCOM:

$JCOM j2 Global Q1 2017 Results – SA

43. SEAS:

$SEAS SeaWorld results miss expectations as attendance drops – MW

44. FTR:

$FTR Jericho’s Resnick Short Frontier Communications; Sees Company Going Bankrupt – SI

45. AHH:

$AHH Armada Hoffler Properties announced offering of 6M shares of common $13.00 – BW

46. FRGI:

$FRGI Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results – BW

47. CBI:

$CBI Chicago Bridge & Iron Misses Q4 EPS by 70c, Sales in-Line – SI

48. NVRO:

$NVRO Nevro Corp. reports 1Q17 Loss Widen; Misses Street View – Stock Market Daily

49. MEET:

$MEET Meet Group down as net income dips – SA

50. CYTK:

$CYTK Cytokinetics Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock – Nasdaq

51. ALLT:

$ALLT Allot Communications Announces First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – PRN

52. PLUG:

$PLUG Plug Power Announces 2017 First Quarter Results – GN

53. HTZ:

$HTZ Hertz Slumps After Loss Outstrips Estimates in CEO’s Debut – BBG

UPGRADES

1. ESNT:Essent Group gets two-notch upgrade at BAML

DOWNGRADES

1. SCYX:$SCYX downgraded to Hold from Buy at Needham

EARNINGS

1. ALLT:$ALLT reports FQ1 earnings of -11c EPS and $18.46M Revs –

2. TESO:$TESO reports FQ1 earnings of -29c EPS and $36.70M Revs –

3. PEGI:$PEGI reports FQ1 earnings of 6c EPS and $100.83M Revs –

4. MDC:$MDC reports FQ1 earnings of 43c EPS and $563.73M Revs –

5. STE:$STE reports FQ4 earnings of $1.11 EPS and $681.20M Revs –

6. DQ:$DQ reports FQ1 earnings of $2.32 EPS and $83.81M Revs –

7. XRAY:$XRAY reports FQ1 earnings of 49c EPS and $900.50M Revs –

8. ZBRA:$ZBRA reports FQ1 earnings of $1.37 EPS and $865M Revs –

9. GEN:$GEN reports FQ1 earnings of -55c EPS and $1.39B Revs –

10. AON:$AON reports FQ1 earnings of $1.45 EPS and $2.38B Revs –

11. ARMK:$ARMK reports FQ2 earnings of 45c EPS and $3.62B Revs –

12. CRZO:$CRZO reports FQ1 earnings of 18c EPS and $151.36M Revs –

13. AER:$AER reports FQ1 earnings of $1.48 EPS and $1.16B Revs –

14. GTS:$GTS reports FQ1 earnings of -20c EPS and $719.63M Revs –

15. ENDP:$ENDP reports FQ1 earnings of $1.23 EPS and $1.04B Revs –

16. BLD:$BLD reports FQ1 earnings of 46c EPS and $441.36M Revs –

17. ODP:$ODP reports FQ1 earnings of 16c EPS and $2.68B Revs –

18. JEC:$JEC reports FQ2 earnings of 78c EPS and $2.30B Revs –

19. SN:$SN reports FQ1 earnings of -18c EPS and $133.84M Revs –

20. SEAS:$SEAS reports FQ1 earnings of -72c EPS and $186.36M Revs –

21. ACM:$ACM reports FQ2 earnings of 89c EPS and $4.43B Revs –

22. AGN:$AGN reports FQ1 earnings of $3.35 EPS and $3.57B Revs –

23. INSY:$INSY reports FQ1 earnings of -9c EPS and $35.96M Revs –

24. TVPT:$TVPT reports FQ1 earnings of 51c EPS and $650.76M Revs –

25. SEE:$SEE reports FQ1 earnings of 43c EPS and $1.03B Revs –

26. TAST:$TAST reports FQ1 earnings of -14c EPS and $239.85M Revs –

27. W:$W reports FQ1 earnings of -48c EPS and $960.83M Revs –

28. VRX:$VRX reports FQ1 earnings of 78c EPS and $2.11B Revs –

29. WLH:$WLH reports FQ1 earnings of 11c EPS and $258.85M Revs –

30. PRTY:$PRTY reports FQ1 earnings of 5c EPS and $477M Revs –

31. DISCA:$DISCA reports FQ1 earnings of 41c EPS and $1.61B Revs –

32. ENOC:$ENOC reports FQ1 earnings of $1.08 EPS and $48.11M Revs –

33. TA:$TA reports FQ1 earnings of -74c EPS and $1.39B Revs –

34. INAP:$INAP reports FQ1 earnings of -2c EPS and $72.13M Revs –

35. IONS:$IONS reports FQ1 earnings of 3c EPS and $110.30M Revs –

36. HSIC:$HSIC reports FQ1 earnings of $1.76 EPS and $2.92B Revs –

37. LGIH:$LGIH reports FQ1 earnings of 52c EPS and $162.91M Revs –

38. CBB:$CBB reports FQ1 earnings of -1c EPS and $278.20M Revs –

39. CMRX:$CMRX reports FQ1 earnings of -38c EPS and $1.08M Revs –

40. DUK:$DUK reports FQ1 earnings of $1.04 EPS and $5.73B Revs –

41. NXST:$NXST reports FQ1 earnings of 13c EPS and $540.32M Revs –

42. CGEN:$CGEN reports FQ1 earnings of -17c EPS and $0M Revs –

43. CGEN:$CGEN reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $0.07M –

44. TDG:$TDG reports FQ2 earnings of $3.02 EPS and $873.23M Revs –

45. VPG:$VPG reports FQ1 earnings of 19c EPS and $59.79M Revs –

46. WRLD:$WRLD reports FQ4 earnings of $3.64 EPS and $144.57M Revs –

47. ONCE:$ONCE reports FQ1 earnings of $-1.70 EPS and $1.27M Revs –

48. CCC:$CCC reports FQ1 earnings of 10c EPS and $142.70M Revs –

49. FOLD:$FOLD reports FQ1 earnings of -39c EPS and $4.17M Revs –

50. AMRI:$AMRI reports FQ1 earnings of 13c EPS and $163.82M Revs –

51. ZYNE:$ZYNE reports FQ1 earnings of -60c EPS and $0M Revs –

52. DF:$DF reports FQ1 earnings of 13c EPS and $2B Revs –

53. VG:$VG reports FQ1 earnings of 6c EPS and $243.35M Revs –

54. CBOE:$CBOE reports FQ1 earnings of 78c EPS and $356.20M Revs –

55. GLP:$GLP reports FQ1 earnings of 33c EPS and $2.27B Revs –

56. NXTM:$NXTM reports FQ1 earnings of -2c EPS and $96.83M Revs –

57. CORE:$CORE reports FQ1 earnings of 11c EPS and $3.50B Revs –

58. SRE:$SRE reports FQ1 earnings of $1.74 EPS and $3.03B Revs –

59. TSQ:$TSQ reports FQ1 earnings of -16c EPS and $88.42M Revs –

60. REIS:$REIS reports FQ1 earnings of 5c EPS and $12.13M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. VRX:Valeant Q1 GAAP EPS $1.79 vs $ in Same Qtr. Last Year, Adj. Net Income $273M, Sales $2.1B; raises FY17 Adj. EBITDA Outlook $VRX

2. REPH:$reph safety profile much better than toradol plus once a day injection than compared to multiple injections daily

3. IONS:$IONS data from Phase 3 NEURO-TTR study in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Q2

4. DXY:the dollar has wiped out most all of its post-election gains $dxy #trumptrade

5. W:$W – Wayfair up 11.65% crushing the shorts some more, 2450 May 26th 55/60 call spreads bought to open late yesterday

Trending News Headlines

1. Dan Hurley on Twitter

“Finally a sell side title that identifies with my process $NXST”

2. Valeant swings to profit on tax gain, raises forecast

Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.N) (VRX.TO) reported its first profit in six quarters, helped by a one-time tax gain, and raised its full-year earnings forecast, sending its U.S. shares up 13 percent in premarket trading.

3. Sanofi vows to limit 2017 price hikes to 5.4% as part of new ‘holistic’ policy | FiercePharma

Sanofi may be late to the pricing-pledge party but it’s come up with some benchmarks that beat its rivals. Rather than limiting price hikes to less than 10%, the French drugmaker promises to keep any price increases at or below an official U.S. health inflation measure that’s projected to hit 5.4% in 2017.

4. Elliott Takes Akzo Nobel to Court to Oust Chairman in PPG Bid Battle

U.S. activist investor Elliott Management has asked a Dutch court to force Akzo Nobel to hold a special shareholder meeting seeking the removal of its chairman, its latest attempt to strong-arm the paint maker into sale talks with rival PPG.

Technology News

1. I know we joke about “[x] is launching a bus” but citymapper is literally launching a bus

They released open data that gave us the opportunity to build an app to help the people of London.

We built software for everything including realtime operational control to driver management to scheduling systems.

In the future explain in more detail how smarter bus tech leads to better mobility and cities.

2. #NetNeutrality is under attack again by Trump’s @FCC, #GOP & big broadband barons. Must watch via @LastWeekTonight

Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat.

John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting and clicking express to file your comment.

Connect with Last Week Tonight online Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens.

3. You can publicly ask the FCC to retain Title II #netneutrality here

4. Austria tells Facebook to remove content globally, in another example of a democratic nation slamming free speech.

VIENNA Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech an Austrian court has ruled in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online trolling.

The case comes as legislators around Europe are considering ways of forcing Facebook Google Twitter and others to rapidly remove hate speech or incitement to violence.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said hate speech has no place on the platform and the company has published a policy paper on how it wants to work against false news.

5. Grammarly is developing features that will flag gendered or aggressive language.

ET One of the most basic human activities writing is getting an assist from machines.

Startup Grammarly uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help improve writing from basic spelling grammar and style to more advanced suggestions on tone and language.

The San Francisco company has been.

6. “The First Data deal will put Alipay in the same league as Apple Pay in terms of acceptance.” via @technology

Alipay owned by Jack Ant Financial reached a deal that will let its users shop at million merchants served by payments processor First Data the companies said Monday in a joint statement.

Apple mobile payments service can be used at million locations in the Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said last week on a call with analysts.

Still Alipay which started in as an online payments processor for Alibaba Group Holding sites is entering a market much less reliant on mobile transactions than its home country.

7. Our “unnamed strategic investor” is now out of stealth: @DellEMC (Dell Technologies Capital)

Michael Dell after closing the merger with EMC is investing in new ways to bolster his company lineup that provides gear and modern software for data centers.

Looking for an edge against rivals such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise the venture unit called Dell Technologies Capital is likely to invest in new startups or perhaps more this year Darling said.

But while that might have made sense in the past the deal created Dell Technologies a behemoth in the tech world in terms of sales and employees so it now time to highlight investments to others the executives said.

8. You can finally post photos from Instagram’s mobile website. This could boost growth in slow-network foreign markets

In pursuit of international growth where networks are slow and data is expensive Instagram has given its mobile website a massive upgrade that adds core features of the main app including photo sharing and a lightweight version of the Explore tab.

With the exanded mobile web version users can skip the app wait time data costs and storage needs while still getting the basic functionality.

Since Snapchat is so and Snap Inc prioritized building for international markets and Android users its app work as well in the developing world.

9. .@techpp And yes, Bluetooth 5.0 as well. First time on the 600 tier. #SnapdragonDay

10. Uber hires super A.I. researcher who is also *gasps* a woman! Story from @CadeMetz

hope to draw from the impressive talent pool as we grow helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Corridor Travis Kalanick embattled CEO wrote in a blog post published this morning.

Though Uber rose to prominence offering a smartphone app for hailing rides it has rapidly embraced the idea of driverless cars over the past few years building a hub dedicated to the technology near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and purchasing the San Francisco autonomous vehicle company Otto for an estimated million.

But its plans were thrown into doubt when Waymo sued the company accusing Anthony Levandowski an Otto founder and former Googler of stealing trade secrets related to the lidar sensors that help driverless cars view the world around them.

Facebook TV coming as early as June | $FB, $IBM, $JD, $CHTR, $LVS and More

by Alpha | May 8, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. DRRX, NVS:

$DRRX Durect, Novartis’ $NVS Sandoz ink deal to develop non-opioid pain drug – Reuters

2. STRP, VZ:

$STRP Straight Path Just Received a Much Higher Offer From a Mystery Bidder – Fortune

3. AXSM:

$AXSM Axsome Therapeutics Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for AXS-05 for AD Agitation – SI

4. NWL:

$NWL Newell Brands Tops Q1 EPS by 5c, Updates FY EPS Guidance – SI

5. COH, KATE:

$KATE Coach, Inc. $COH to Acquire Kate Spade & Company for $18.50 Per Share in Cash – BW

6. TSEM:

$TSEM Tower Semiconductor posts 1Q profit – AP

7. SBGI, TRCO:

$TRCO Sinclair $SBGI Is Said to Be Near a $4 Billion Deal for Tribune Media – Fortune

8. CCP, SBRA:

$CCP Sabra Health Care REIT $SBRA and Care Capital Properties to Merge in $7.4B Deal – SI

9. JD:

$JD Alibaba Rival Beats Q1 Forecasts, Guides Q2 Revenue High – IBD

10. ON:

$ON ON Semiconductor Reports First Quarter 2017 Results – BW

11. SGYP:

$SGYP Synergy Pharma to Present TRULANCE™ Phase 3 Data at Digestive Disease Week

12. PDLI:

$PDLI LENSAR FDA Clearances for Laser Cataract Platform Integration W OCULUS Pentacam Tomographers

13. CHTR, CMCSA:

$CMCSA Comcast, Charter $CHTR to Strike Wireless Partnership – WSJ

14. CRK:

$CRK Comstock Resources, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial and Operating Results – SI

15. DHT, FRO:

$DHT RPT-Oil tanker firm DHT Holdings rejects another bid by rival Frontline $FRO – Nasdaq

16. ITT:

$ITT ITT Reports Solid 2017 First-Quarter Results – SI

17. GOOG:

$GOOG YouTube loses major advertisers over offensive content – NYPost

18. VRNS: $VRNS Varonis Systems: Beat and Raise Quarter With New Automation Features – Needham

19. EPZM: $EPZM Epizyme Tops Q1 EPS by 7c – SI

20. NVCR: $NVCR Novocure Announces Results From Study of Optune Combo with Temozolomide – SI

21. PPG: $PPG Akzo’s Third Snub of PPG Raises Prospect of Hostile Approach – BBG

22. XLRN: $XLRN Acceleron Pharma Reports First Quarter 2017 Operational and Financial Results – BW

23. LNCE:

$LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Misses Q1 EPS by 1c – SI

24. LBTYA:

$LBTYA Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2017 Results – BW

25. GLPG:

$GLPG Galapagos presents three posters on filgotinib in Crohn’s disease at DDW® 2017 – SI

26. TSN:

$TSN Tyson Foods profit falls as plant fires hurt production – Reuters

27. SYY:

$SYY Sysco Reports Third Quarter Earnings – SI

28. MLCO:

$MLCO Melco Resorts Launches 27.8M Offering of ADSs and 82M Ordinary Shares – SI

29. TXMD:

$TXMD FDA rejects TherapeuticsMD’s vaginal pain drug – Reuters

30. OMED:

$OMED OncoMed Pharma stock drops 17% after clinical trial miss; Q1 revenue miss – MW

31. HZNP:

$HZNP Horizon Pharma slide on weaker-than-expected earnings – MW

32. LVS, MGM, WYNN: Macau Introduces ATM Facial Recognition to Deter Chinese Money Laundering – BBG

Trending Social Alerts

1. COH:BREAKING: Coach announces it will acquire Kate Space & Co. for $18.50 per share or about $2.4B. • $COH $KATE

2. SBGI:Sinclair Broadcasting confirms it will buy Tribune Media for $3.9B in TV station deal. $SBGI $TRCO But what happens to tronc? $TRNC #sarcasm

3. TXMD:$TXMD TherapeuticsMD Receives CRL from FDA for TX-004HR New Drug Application – FDA cites of long-term endometrial safety data for TX-004HR

4. DRRX:$DRRX nd Sandoz have Signed a $293 Million Development and Commercialization Agreement for POSIMIR Covering the United States

5. REGN:$REGN’s PD-1 is starting to be used by other companies in combo trials now. $INO will use it in a small GBM trial.…

6. KITE:$KITE PR no new info about the BLA/review timeline. Says MAA filing 3Q17. Will also start a MAGE-A3/A6 trial Q2.

7. TRCO:#Sinclair announces deal to buy Tribune for $3.9B — confirming weekend rumors. $TRCO shares up 5.5% pre-market.

8. STRP:And it continues… $STRP with a $184/share offer now

9. PRTK:$PRTK Completes Enrollment for Oral-only Omadacycline Phase 3 Skin Study, Top-line Data Expected in Mid-July

10. JUNO:$KITE just revealed a fatal cerebral oedema event in a KTE-C19 safety study $JUNO

11. HZNP:$HZNP to Buy River Vision for an Upfront Cash Payment of $145M

12. XLRN:$XLRN top-line results from DART Phase 2 trial in RCC in Q2

13. INO:$INO and $REGN Enter Immuno-Oncology Clinical Study Agreement for Glioblastoma Combination Therapy

14. ARRY:$ARRY $MRK Array BioPharma Announces Strategic Collaboration with Merck

Trending News Headlines

1. Horizon Pharma plc Announces Agreement to Acquire River Vision Development Corp. and Teprotumumab (RV001), a Biologic in Late-Stage Development for Rare Eye Disease

– Pivotal Trial of Teprotumumab in Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Expected to Begin in Second Half of 2017 –

2. Coach to acquire Kate Spade & Co for $18.50 a share in cash

This story is developing. Please check back for further updates.

3. Horizon Pharma plc Announces First-Quarter 2017 Results and Revises Full-Year 2017 Net Sales and Adjusted EBITDA Guidance (NASDAQ:HZNP)

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4. Comcast, Charter to Strike Wireless Partnership

Comcast and Charter Communications are striking a wireless

5. Array BioPharma Announces Strategic Collaboration with Merck

BOULDER, Colo., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Array BioPharma Inc. (ARRY) announced today that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) to investigate the safety and efficacy of Array’s MEK inhibitor, binimetinib, with

6. Tyson Foods profit falls as plant fires hurt production

Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), the No. 1 U.S. meat processor, reported a 21.3 percent slump in quarterly profit as a fire at two of its plants in the period disrupted chicken production, hurting sales at the company’s second-biggest business.

7. Coach to buy rival Kate Spade for $2.4 billion

Handbag maker Coach Inc (COH.N) said it would buy Kate Spade & Co (KATE.N) for $2.4 billion as it looks tap the smaller rival’s popularity among millennials.

Technology News

1. 2 days before French vote, Macron campaign hit by a massive hacking operation; documents stolen and mixed with fakes

Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday second round of voting in what is seen to be France most important election in decades.

intelligence agencies said in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered hacking of parties tied to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to influence the election on behalf of Republican rival Donald Trump.

Reporting by Eric Auchard in Frankfurt Michel Rose and Bate Felix in Paris Jim Finkle in Toronto Writing by Andrew Callus Editing by Sandra Smith.

2. This is brilliant if they really did this… plant fakes to steal and dox. “Did Macron Outsmart Campaign Hackers?”

In addition to the normal proscription of campaign on election eve the government issued a statement saying specifically that anyone disseminating the materials in this dump in France could be liable to prosecution and calling on the media to shoulder their by steering clear of them.

As reported by The Daily Beast part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear also known as Pawn Storm and was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.

can flood these phishing addresses with multiple passwords and true ones false ones so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out Mounir Mahjoubi the head of digital team told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject.

3. How Tenable researchers re-discovered the Intel #AMT vulnerability #infosec

In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.

Drawing on past experience when we reported an vulnerability in which the length of credential comparison is controlled by the attacker memcmp we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server.

On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.

4. TV EXEC: I hate my industry, but at least it can’t get any worse ZUCKERBERG: Hold my juicero

The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.

His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.

The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.

5. Report: Facebook TV coming as early as June, it’s still not a media company

Back in December rumors started flying that Facebook was looking to follow Amazon Hulu and Netflix into the original content game.

With premium services like Amazon reducing the number of cable subscribers networks like YouTube see an opportunity to snatch up defectors.

And while Snapchat is still far behind Facebook in user count Zuckerberg worries that his company is behind the times when it comes to innovation and attracting younger eyeballs.

6. Analogously the first step of pentesting appears to be “Try giving no password.”

In a blog post written by Embedi the company of the researcher who discovered the vulnerability a bullet point stood out.

On May Intel responded confirming that it was the same vulnerability and requested we wait to share our findings until Pacific time that day.

7. Not. A. Media. Company. #Facebook #TV

The effort to snag exclusive shows is being led by CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen whom Facebook hired in December to be its global creative strategy chief.

His small team has been meeting with production companies and hearing pitches for episodic shows five to minutes long that would live in a revamped version of Facebook video tab.

The new video strategy pits Facebook directly against YouTube which on Thursday announced it would fund a slate of original shows starring big names like Ellen DeGeneres Kevin Hart and Katy Perry.

8. “hackers to remotely gain administrative control over huge fleets of computers” #intel

According to a blog post published Friday by Tenable Network Security the cryptographic hash that the interface digest access authentication requires to verify someone is authorized to log in can be anything at all including no string at all.

The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.

The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.

9. Worst and sloppiest vulnerability I’ve seen. And unpatched. Letting CPU silently redirect traffic: not a good idea

The browser sends instead a response hash computed on a string composed of various items including a variable nonce sent by the server in addition to the password for example.

The problem is what happens if you do use a browser but you generate an invalid request manually or using a proxy to alter the response sending an empty string instead of the character hash.

10. Could see Silicon Valley ratings taking a dive this season because this Zuckerberg thing is even better

But if there one message Zuckerberg and his dozens of staffers want to get across it that this tour is not an elaborate publicity stunt designed to set the stage for his eventual run for office.

Amy Dudley the chief spokeswoman for his philanthropic fund The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was previously the communications director for Hillary Clinton running mate and Virginia senator Tim Kaine.

Zuckerberg visit to Ohio last week included a community college machine learning lab an opioid addiction clinic and a juvenile detention center according to the spokesperson.

$OLED Universal Display Surges: Q1 Crushes Expectations | and More Pre Market Movers

by Alpha | May 5, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. SNCR:

$SNCR Siris Capital Shows New 12.93% Stake in Synchronoss; Discussed ‘Take-Private’ Deal – SI

2. SWIR:

$SWIR Sierra Wireless Tops Q1 EPS by 8c, Q2 Revenue Guidance Beats – SI

3. OLED:

$OLED Universal Display Surges: Q1 Crushes Expectations, Raises Year Outlook – Barron’s

4. WING:

$WING Wingstop shares up 12% after earnings beat – MW

5. ZFGN:

$ZFGN Zafgen Reports Positive Topline Phase 1 Data for ZGN-1061 – SI

6. ELY:

$ELY Callaway Golf Company Announces First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – PRN

7. HDP:

$HDP Hortonworks Jumps on Q1 Beat, In-Line Q2, Year Views 0 Barron’s

8. AAOI:

$AAOI Applied Optoelectronics up after strong quarter; sell-side applauds – SA

9. IMGN:

$IMGN ImmunoGen Reports Narrower-than-Expected Loss – Zacks

10. ZNGA:

$ZNGA Zynga Shares Rise 7% on Strong Forecast – Fortune

11. HLF:

$HLF Shares of Herbalife rally on upbeat 2017 outlook – MW

12. ACLS:

$ACLS Axcelis Announces Financial Results For First Quarter 2017 – PRN

13. PE:

$PE Parsley Energy Tops Q1 EPS by 4c, Beat on Revenues – SI

14. SHAK:

$SHAK Shake Shack: A Very Mixed Quarter – SA

15. AKAO:

$AKAO Achaogen Receives $10.5M Grant, $10M Equity Investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – SI

16. LOGM:

$LOGM LogMeIn: Beat and Raise with Synergies Ahead – Needham

17. Z, ZG:

$Z Zillow Group $ZG posts record $245.8M in revenue, up 32%, says it’s on track for first $1B year -GW

18. ANTM, CI:

$CI Anthem $ANTM to file a petition with the Supreme Court regarding Cigna acquisition – MW

19. MULE:

$MULE Mulesoft beats in post-IPO earnings report, sending shares higher – MW

20. MNST:

$MNST Monster Beverage Q1 Earnings, Revenues Top – Zacks

21. CBS:

$CBS CBS Delivers Strong Q1 but Profit Falls on Radio Sale Adjustment, Super Bowl Comparison

22. GSK, INVA:

$INVA GSK $GSK And Innoviva Announce Positive Results From SLS In Asthma – RTT

23. SNAP:

$SNAP Snapchat reportedly inks big media deals for new TV shows – Cnet

24. IMMU, SGEN:

$IMMU Seattle Genetics $SGEN terminates license agreement with Immunomedics – Reuters

25. ATVI:

$ATVI Activision Blizzard Beats Q1 Sales, Earnings Targets – IBD

26. MRK:

$MRK Merck Announces EC Approval of KEYTRUDA for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory cHL – SI

27. CI:

$CI Cigna results ahead of expectations, raises 2017 outlook – MW

28. MRO:

$MRO Marathon Oil’s loss smaller than expected on higher crude prices – Reuters

29. BGS:

$BGS B&G Foods Tops Q1 EPS by 4c, Beat on Revenue; Positive FY17 Revenue Guidance – SI

30. SYT:

$SYT ChemChina clinches landmark $43 billion takeover of Syngenta – Reuters

31. TSLA:

$TSLA Tesla says Model 3 reservations increasing every week – but overall deposits decreasing -Electrek

32. COP:

$COP ConocoPhillips Provides Update to First-Quarter 2017 Results -BW

33. BABA, NCLH:

$NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line, Alibaba Group $BABA Partner to Enter the China Cruise Market – SI

34. BEBE: $BEBE Retailer Bebe avoids bankruptcy with landlord deals: sources – Reuters

35. UE:

$UE Urban Edge Properties announces sale of 7.7 mln shares – Reuters

36. ANET:

$ANET Arista Networks Earnings Top Views; Revenue Outlook Light? – IBD

37. PLNT:

$PLNT Planet Fitness slides on sizeable secondary offering – MW

38. VWR:

$VWR New Mountain Capital’s Avantor to buy lab supplies company VWR – Reuters

39. IBM:

$IBM Warren Buffett sold IBM shares, ‘revalued’ tech icon downward, cites ‘big strong competitors’ -CNBC

40. LCI:

$LCI LendingClub posts fourth straight quarter of loss, improves outlook – Reuters

41. MFA:

$MFA MFA Financial Prices 20M Offering of Common Stock for Gross Proceeds of $157M – SI

42. YRCW:

$YRCW YRC Worldwide sheds 180 management and other non-union jobs as quarterly loss doubles – KC Star

43. FLR:

$FLR Fluor Corp. Cuts Outlook – RTT

44. NCMI:

$NCMI National CineMedia, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2017 – BW

45. PI:

$PI Impinj Drops: Q1 Beats, Q2 View Light – Barron’s

46. ZEN:

$ZEN Zendesk shares fall as wider-than-expected loss forecast – MW

47. PBYI:

$PBYI Puma Biotechnology’s Robert Charnas resigns – Reuters

48. AMSC:

$AMSC American Superconductor to Offer Shares of Common Stock – SI

49. NVIV:

$NVIV InVivo Therapeutics Provides Clinical Update & Reports 2017 First Quarter Financial Results – BW

50. BCOV:

$BCOV Brightcove Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2017 – BW

51. RGLS:

$RGLS Regulus CEO leaves, axes 30% of staff as FDA hold goes on – Fierce Biotech

UPGRADES

1. LITE:Barclays Upgrades Lumentum Holdings to Hold $LITE

2. REGN:$REGN upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canaccord

3. SHAK:Shake Shack upgraded to buy from neutral at Buckingham. Price target remains $39. $SHAK +4.38% at 34.57 premarket…

4. VZ:$VZ – “we no longer expect to be able to achieve an upgrade to our pre-Vodafone credit rating in that timeframe”

DOWNGRADES

1. NVIV:$NVIV downgraded to Outperform from Strong Buy at Raymond James. PT $6 from $10

EARNINGS

1. CI:$CI reports FQ1 earnings of $2.77 EPS and $10.34B Revs –

2. CTSH:$CTSH reports FQ1 earnings of 84c EPS and $3.55B Revs –

3. NPTN:$NPTN reports FQ1 earnings of -25c EPS and $71.69M Revs –

4. CNP:$CNP reports FQ1 earnings of 37c EPS and $2.74B Revs –

5. IMGN:$IMGN reports FQ3 earnings of -20c EPS and $28.69M Revs –

6. VWR:$VWR reports FQ1 earnings of 44c EPS and $1.14B Revs –

7. BPL:$BPL reports FQ1 earnings of 90c EPS and $969.27M Revs –

8. CFX:$CFX reports FQ1 earnings of 35c EPS and $844.93M Revs –

9. MCO:$MCO reports FQ1 earnings of $1.37 EPS and $975.20M Revs –

10. NJR:$NJR reports FQ2 earnings of $1.20 EPS and $733.55M Revs –

11. RUTH:$RUTH reports FQ1 earnings of 35c EPS and $105.54M Revs –

12. UNVR:$UNVR reports FQ1 earnings of 16c EPS and $2B Revs –

13. LPX:$LPX reports FQ1 earnings of 33c EPS and $610.90M Revs –

14. IBP:$IBP reports FQ1 earnings of 35c EPS and $255.67M Revs –

15. IBP:$IBP reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $18.45M –

16. ESNT:$ESNT reports FQ1 earnings of 72c EPS and $127.59M Revs –

17. GLOG:$GLOG reports FQ1 earnings of 6c EPS and $128.29M Revs –

18. JLL:$JLL reports FQ1 earnings of 45c EPS and $1.62B Revs –

19. JLL:$JLL reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $101.38M –

20. ROCK:$ROCK reports FQ1 earnings of 20c EPS and $206.61M Revs –

21. SSP:$SSP reports FQ1 earnings of -2c EPS and $211M Revs –

22. SSP:$SSP reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $1.66M –

23. TGTX:$TGTX reports FQ1 earnings of -52c EPS and $0.04M Revs –

24. USM:$USM reports FQ1 earnings of 31c EPS and $936M Revs –

25. ALNY:$ALNY reports FQ1 earnings of $-1.25 EPS and $18.96M Revs –

26. AXL:$AXL reports FQ1 earnings of $1.03 EPS and $1.05B Revs –

27. PDCE:$PDCE reports FQ1 earnings of -6c EPS and $273.71M Revs –

28. TWIN:$TWIN reports FQ3 earnings of -16c EPS and $45.08M Revs –

29. KOP:$KOP reports FQ1 earnings of 68c EPS and $346.60M Revs –

Trending Social Alerts

1. IMMU:$SGEN License Agreement Hadn’t Closed Due to Legal Action Brought by $IMMU Stockholder Challenging Transaction

2. IBM:I’ll also be talking about @WarrenBuffett reducing Berkshire stake in $IBM as well. Big Blue down 3.5% #premarket.

3. SHAK:$SHAK now up 5% #premarket after earnings. No more worries about same-store sales? Analyst upgraded to buy. Shake i…

4. PBYI:A Top $PBYI Exec Resigns Ahead of FDA Panel, Analysts Defend With Conflicting Stories —>

5. AKAO:$AKAO $20m investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

6. TGTX:$TGTX Therapeutics, Inc. Provides Business Update and Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results

Trending News Headlines

1. A Top Puma Bio Exec Resigns Ahead of FDA Panel, Analysts Defend With Conflicting Stories

The surprise exit of Puma’s regulatory chief is sparking fears FDA will deal harshly with the company’s breast cancer drug neratinib.

2. New Mountain Capital’s Avantor to buy lab supplies company VWR

Private equity firm New Mountain Capital’s Avantor will buy VWR Corp (VWR.O) for about $4.38 billion, creating a global lab equipment giant supplying everything from beakers to microscopes to the healthcare and technology industries.

3. Wall Street’s M&A Chatter From May 4: General Mills, Brookdale Senior Living, Allergan-Paratek

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Thursday, May 4, 2017. Allergan Said to Hold Takeover Talks with Paratek The Rumor: Paratek…

4. Warren Buffett has ‘revalued’ IBM downward, cites ‘big strong competitors’

Warren Buffett tells CNBC that he has “revalued” his view of IBM downward as the company has run into stiff competition.

5. Virtu CEO Aims to Be the Good Guy of High-Speed Trading

High-frequency trading firms are often cast as villains. Virtu Financial Chief Executive Douglas Cifu is determined to be seen as one of the good guys.

Technology News

1. The widespread use of Cloudflare’s services by racist groups is no accident:

The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in Charleston in and James Jackson who fatally stabbed an elderly black man with a sword in the streets of New York earlier this year.

Based in San Francisco Cloudflare operates more than data centers spread across the world serving as a sort of middleman for websites speeding up delivery of a content and protecting it from several kinds of attacks.

In a post the architect Andrew Auernheimer said he had personal relationships with people at Cloudflare and they had assured him the company would work to protect the site in a variety of ways including by not turning over data to European courts.

2. Oh, by the way, life insurance companies want to use your selfies assess your life expectancy. Just the beginning.

Many life insurance companies are exploring how to use additional data statistical models artificial intelligence and other techniques to help make quick decisions to ease the policy buying process and boost sales.

Time and testing will tell which new approaches prove effective says Robert Kerzner president and CEO of LIMRA a life insurance trade group.

Ricanek worked on facial recognition technology for the FBI Biometric Center of Excellence and is a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

3. The far right in the U.S. has so far failed to reach much of the French electorate, an analysis found

Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.

Ahead of this election some of these images on Facebook and Twitter portrayed Macron as a century equivalent to Marie Antoinette the last queen of France while others linked him with false allegations of an extramarital affair.

trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.

4. The first user of Google TPUs was the Street View team running OCR on street signs.

5. We’re excited to announce our plans to acquire @yummly

6. Jimmy Wales says he already has enough funding for 5 of the 10 Wikitribune reporters he wants to start with

The site will focus on general news coverage particularly politics at first he said but his goal is that it will cover more niche topics like Bitcoin and dog breeding.

We are hopeful to get some money from other sources but at this stage really focused on the crowdfunding because I think if people are willing to support this in concept even before we get started a good sign that going to be able to attract an audience.

Maybe you interview someone and you write the story in a very traditional way but you also publish the transcript and even the audio so that the community can actually if interested and I think many people will be check those against the story and say this is a fair quote not out of Or this person was joking when they said that but written it up as if they were serious and we should probably edit that to make it more clear that a There are lots of things like that no reason to exclude people from helping out with that sort of thing.

7. Remember that thing about “Do NOT use your phone number as a means of authenticating yourself to a site”?

A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts according to a report published Wednesday.

Security researchers demonstrated this dark side of last year when they stalked US Representative Ted Lieu using nothing more than his cell phone number and access to an network.

In January thieves exploited weaknesses to bypass authentication banks used to prevent unauthorized withdrawals from online accounts the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

8. YouTube is spending $100M+ on a half dozen series available for free to all users. Scoop w/@mhbergen

Comedian Kevin Hart host Ellen DeGeneres and the comedy duo Rhett Link are producing unscripted shows that will debut this year YouTube will announce at an event for advertisers in New York Thursday.

mission at the annual Newfront presentations in New York where online companies are introducing their latest initiatives this week is to convince marketers to shift more ad money to the web from TV.

two biggest players in the Newfronts are YouTube and Hulu yet neither tells you exactly where your ad ran said Ben Winkler chief investment officer of OMD USA part of the Omnicom Group advertising company.

9. The US far-right has put on a digital assault supporting Le Pen. But, as @markscott82 notes, it hasn’t resonated

Ahead of last vote for instance a fake news site masquerading as Le Soir a Belgian newspaper tried to spread rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing campaign.

trolls are trying to make a difference globally said Whitney Phillips an assistant professor at the Mercer University who has studied the rise of the far right online in the United States.

10. 24 out of 25 top restaurant chains use Crew in at least 5 locations; 46 of top 50 retailers use it in at least 1

$SQ Square Jumps 6% on Q1 Beat, In-Line Year View | Other Earnings and Pre Market News

by Alpha | May 4, 2017 | Pre-Market

PRE-MARKET MOVERS

1. HIIQ:

$HIIQ Health Insurance Innovations posts 1Q profit – AP

2. SGMO:

$SGMO Sangamo Therapeutics Announces Special Regulatory Designations from FDA for 3 Clinical Programs

3. CNAT, NVS:

$CNAT Novartis $NVS exercises option with Conatus for NASH product – Reuters

4. CLMT:

$CLMT Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results – PRN

5. DATA:

$DATA Tableau Software’s Loss Smaller Than Expected, And Shares Surge – IBD

6. FIT:

$FIT Fitbit Beats Low Expectations on Stronger-Than-Expected Demand – BBG

7. FORM:

$FORM FormFactor, Inc. Reports First Quarter Results – GN

8. FIVN:

$FIVN Five9 shares rally as quarterly results top Wall Street view – MW

9. SQ:

$SQ Square Jumps 6% on Q1 Beat, In-Line Year View – Barron’s

10. NSIT:

$NSIT Insight Enterprises Tops Q1 EPS by 27c, Raises FY Outlook – SI

11. HSBC:

$HSBC HSBC buoyed by higher interest rates and weaker dollar – FT

12. CHK:

$CHK Chesapeake Energy’s stock surges after profit beat, upbeat production outlook – MW

13. ALB:

$ALB Albemarle beats Street 1Q forecasts – AP

14. INCY:

$INCY Incyte Tops Q1 EPS by 4c – SI

15. RDS:

$RDS/A Shell Pumps a Torrent of Cash as Takeover, Cost Cuts Pay Off – BBG

16. AIG:

$AIG AIG swings to profit on cost cuts – MW

17. MET:

$MET MetLife operating results top estimates – SA

18. H:

$H Hyatt Hotels Q1 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates – Zacks

19. VIAB:

$VIAB Viacom earnings, revenue top Street estimates on Paramount success – CNBC

20. ABC:

$ABC AmerisourceBergen Q2 Earnings Beat, Sales Miss – Zacks

21. CF:

$CF CF Industries Q1 Earnings Miss, Sales Beat Estimates – Zacks

22. AAPL, QCOM:

$AAPL Qualcomm $QCOM Said to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones – BBG

23. PRU: $PRU Prudential beats 1Q profit forecasts – AP

24. K: $K Kellogg Tops Q1 EPS by 7c, Revs Miss Slightly; Lowers FY17 Net Sales Outlook, Affirms EPS – SI

25. REGN: $REGN Regeneron profit misses estimates as Eylea sales growth slows – Reuters

26. ANDE:

$ANDE The Andersons Misses Q1 EPS by 25c – SI

27. KHC:

$KHC Kraft Heinz Q1 Earnings & Sales Fall Shy of Estimates – Zacks

28. OXY:

$OXY Occidental Petroleum Tops Q1 Earnings, Lags Revenues – Zacks

29. FB:

$FB Facebook shares dip from high as investors fret over costs, future profit – Reuters

30. NUS:

$NUS Nu Skin Enterprises Reports First-Quarter 2017 Results – PRN

31. DNKN:

$DNKN Dunkin’ Brands Q1 Earnings Beat, Sales Lag Estimates – Zacks

32. QRVO:

$QRVO Qorvo Cites Slow Demand In China For Weak June Guidance – IBD

33. CTL:

$CTL CenturyLink Lags Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates – Zacks

34. TSLA:

$TSLA Tesla More Than Doubles Revenue, But Widens Losses – Fortune

35. DDD:

$DDD 3D Systems reports 1Q loss – AP

36. GOGO:

$GOGO Gogo Misses Q1 EPS by 2c – SI

37. GDDY:

$GDDY GoDaddy Inc. Announces Proposed Follow-on Offering and Repurchase – PRN

38. LB:

$LB L Brands Reports April 2017 Sales and Updates First Quarter Earnings Guidance – GN

39. CAR:

$CAR Avis Budget shares hit speed bump on larger-than-expected loss – FT

40. CAKE:

$CAKE Cheesecake Factory missed estimates – IBD

41. NTRP:

$NTRP A Neurotrope Stock Promotion Scheme Is Underway, but Who’s Paying for It? – Adam F

42. LNTH:

$LNTH Lantheus Holdings to Offer 3M Shares for Holders – SI

43. SRC:

$SRC Spirit Realty plunges 15% on trouble with tenants – SA

44. BPMX:

$BPMX BioPharmX Ph 2b Achieves Primary Endpoint; Secondary Endpoint Wasn’t Statistically Significant

UPGRADES

1. DLPH:BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades Delphi Automotive PLC $DLPH to Neutral

2. HIVE:Wunderlich Securities Upgrades Aerohive Networks $HIVE to Buy, “Attractively Priced With Progress …

3. JWN:Atlantic Equities Upgrades Nordstrom $JWN to Overweight

DOWNGRADES

1. ENTL:Canaccord Genuity Downgrades Entellus Medical to Hold $ENTL

2. QRVO:D.A. Davidson Downgrades Qorvo to Hold $QRVO

3. SRC:Spirit Realty Capital was Downgraded to a Hold Rating at Janney Montgomery $SRC

4. TAP:Societe Generale Downgrades Molson Coors $TAP to Hold, Investment Likely To Weigh On Margins

EARNINGS

1. DNKN:$DNKN reports FQ1 earnings of 48c EPS and $190.67M Revs –

2. TWI:$TWI reports FQ1 earnings of -18c EPS and $357.50M Revs –

3. BCRX:$BCRX reports FQ1 earnings of -19c EPS and $9.43M Revs –

4. COMM:$COMM reports FQ1 earnings of 52c EPS and $1.14B Revs –

5. BLL:$BLL reports FQ1 earnings of 76c EPS and $2.47B Revs –

6. IT:$IT reports FQ1 earnings of 60c EPS and $625.17M Revs –

7. RGS:$RGS reports FQ3 earnings of -18c EPS and $412.60M Revs –

8. USCR:$USCR reports FQ1 earnings of 55c EPS and $299.13M Revs –

9. PGTI:$PGTI reports FQ1 earnings of 7c EPS and $112.70M Revs –

10. WLTW:$WLTW reports FQ1 earnings of $3.71 EPS and $2.32B Revs –

11. GEL:$GEL reports FQ1 earnings of 23c EPS and $415.49M Revs –

12. EMKR:$EMKR reports FQ2 earnings of 14c EPS and $32.59M Revs –

13. ACIW:$ACIW reports FQ1 earnings of 2c EPS and $231.46M Revs –

14. LDOS:$LDOS reports FQ1 earnings of 88c EPS and $2.58B Revs –

15. AROC:$AROC reports FQ1 earnings of -11c EPS and $189.89M Revs –

16. CAB:$CAB reports FQ1 earnings of 40c EPS and $834.89M Revs –

17. EPAM:$EPAM reports FQ1 earnings of 72c EPS and $324.65M Revs –

18. FMSA:$FMSA reports FQ1 earnings of -5c EPS and $172.58M Revs –

19. FRP:$FRP reports FQ1 earnings of -88c EPS and $201.91M Revs –

20. PWR:$PWR reports FQ1 earnings of 39c EPS and $2.18B Revs –

21. BZH:$BZH reports FQ2 earnings of -23c EPS and $425.47M Revs –

22. TFX:$TFX reports FQ1 earnings of $1.80 EPS and $487.90M Revs –

23. REGN:$REGN reports FQ1 earnings of $2.92 EPS and $1.32B Revs –

24. ALE:$ALE reports FQ1 earnings of 97c EPS and $365.60M Revs –

25. MMS:$MMS reports FQ2 earnings of 80c EPS and $622M Revs –

26. MMS:$MMS reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $3.84M –

27. DNR:$DNR reports FQ1 earnings of -2c EPS and $263.97M Revs –

28. ABC:$ABC reports FQ2 earnings of $1.77 EPS and $37.15B Revs –

29. ATRO:$ATRO reports FQ1 earnings of 38c EPS and $152.40M Revs –

30. AVP:$AVP reports FQ1 earnings of -7c EPS and $1.33B Revs –

31. SBH:$SBH reports FQ2 earnings of 44c EPS and $966.47M Revs –

32. SNOW:$SNOW reports FQ3 earnings of $3.80 EPS and $334.89M Revs –

33. PBF:$PBF reports FQ1 earnings of -20c EPS and $4.75B Revs –

34. CBM:$CBM reports FQ1 earnings of 68c EPS and $105.01M Revs –

35. GTN:$GTN reports FQ1 earnings of 14c EPS and $203.46M Revs –

36. HMHC:$HMHC reports FQ1 earnings of -98c EPS and $221.92M Revs –

37. THS:$THS reports FQ1 earnings of 61c EPS and $1.54B Revs –

38. SNI:$SNI reports FQ1 earnings of $1.53 EPS and $855.12M Revs –

39. TDY:$TDY reports FQ1 earnings of $1.26 EPS and $566.10M Revs –

40. LQDT:$LQDT reports FQ2 earnings of -21c EPS and $72.34M Revs –

41. LQDT:$LQDT reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and misses the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $12.81M –

42. ZTS:$ZTS reports FQ1 earnings of 53c EPS and $1.23B Revs –

43. ABMD:$ABMD reports FQ4 earnings of 40c EPS and $124.68M Revs –

44. INCY:$INCY reports FQ1 earnings of -68c EPS and $384.08M Revs –

45. NSM:$NSM reports FQ1 earnings of 30c EPS and $427M Revs –

46. AGIO:$AGIO reports FQ1 earnings of $-1.56 EPS and $10.51M Revs –

47. TPX:$TPX reports FQ1 earnings of 96c EPS and $722.10M Revs –

48. PPL:$PPL reports FQ1 earnings of 62c EPS and $1.95B Revs –

49. VIAB:$VIAB reports FQ2 earnings of 79c EPS and $3.26B Revs –

50. UNT:$UNT reports FQ1 earnings of 15c EPS and $175.70M Revs –

51. ORBC:$ORBC reports FQ1 earnings of -5c EPS and $51.90M Revs –

52. ORBC:$ORBC reports inline with the Estimize EPS Consensus and beats the Estimize Revenue Consensus by $4.19M –

53. OXY:$OXY reports FQ1 earnings of 15c EPS and $2.98B Revs –

54. CEVA:$CEVA reports FQ1 earnings of 28c EPS and $21.29M Revs –

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60. KERX:$KERX reports FQ1 earnings of -21c EPS and $11.82M Revs –

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63. AYR:$AYR reports FQ1 earnings of 58c EPS and $204.27M Revs –

64. H:$H reports FQ1 earnings of 73c EPS and $1.19B Revs –

65. NTCT:$NTCT reports FQ4 earnings of 65c EPS and $327.24M Revs –

66. SPAR:$SPAR reports FQ1 earnings of 4c EPS and $167.08M Revs –

67. NICE:$NICE reports FQ1 earnings of 89c EPS and $308.05M Revs –

68. GPN:$GPN reports FQ3 earnings of 85c EPS and $803.88M Revs –

69. APA:$APA reports FQ1 earnings of 8c EPS and $1.88B Revs –

70. ARW:$ARW reports FQ1 earnings of $1.46 EPS and $5.76B Revs –

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73. K:$K reports FQ1 earnings of $1.06 EPS and $3.25B Revs –

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76. VAC:$VAC reports FQ1 earnings of $1.22 EPS and $487.49M Revs –

77. AMCX:$AMCX reports FQ1 earnings of $2.10 EPS and $720.19M Revs –

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79. PCRX:$PCRX reports FQ1 earnings of -19c EPS and $69.30M Revs –

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83. ACTA:$ACTA reports FQ1 earnings of -6c EPS and $30.50M Revs –

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1. Amazon and EU Reach Settlement Over E-Book Contracts

Amazon.com has reached an agreement with the European Union’s antitrust authorities over the EU’s probe into its electronic books contracts with publishers.

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Technology News

1. If you opened the Google Docs phishing email, here’s how to fix: If you see Google Docs,…

Every Google Account comes with today most advanced security features built in.

You can sign in with a password what most people choose or add Verification which sends a code to your phone as an extra security step.

2. Here’s Google statement.

A massive phishing campaign targeting Google accounts ripped through the internet on Wednesday afternoon.

Several people online across a range of industries said they received emails containing what looked like a link to a Google Doc that appeared to come from someone they know.

We removed the fake pages pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.

3. Here’s what to do if you opened that sketchy google doc

A number of people have been victims of an apparent phishing attempt where hackers try to get you to click on sketchy links by an unknown organization starting around am PT today.

A Google spokesperson said in a statement that the company has disabled the accounts where the hack originated pushed updates through Safe Browsing and our abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.

The attack hit an unknown number of employees within BuzzFeed and seems to also target people outside of the organization including school districts and universities.

4. So “move fast and break things” isn’t the best philosophy for social norms about violence.

On a platform nearly billion users strong the company have better anticipated the sheer statistical inevitability that someone would use Facebook to broadcast acts of violence and had more robust measures in place to make such harder to pull off.

When a Gizmodo reporter uncovered ideological bias in Trending Topics Facebook overcorrected by getting rid of human curators altogether relying on algorithms that pushed hoaxes as news.

When critics argued the company had a responsibility to exert editorial control over content proliferating on the site it failed to act until the spread of false stories helped shape the outcome of the presidential election.

5. Work. Play. Turn Up. Listen to new tracks on The Upload. It’s just what you do:

With a constantly expanding mix of music uploaded to SoundCloud every day now made it easier to filter through it all.

The Upload is all about surfacing more of what into or what you might be and is the destination for a regularly updated bespoke playlist of new music relevant to you.

This new feature is another opportunity for creators on SoundCloud to get their music heard by our global community and a great way for listeners to be on the pulse of next now.

6. Apple: we will stop paying Qualcomm licensing fees. Qualcomm: WE WILL STOP IPHONES AT THE BORDER.

Incensed over Apple decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips Qualcomm plans to retaliate by asking a trade agency to ban the imports of iPhones according to a person familiar with the strategy.

The ITC is a agency in Washington that has the power to block the import of goods into the and processes cases more quickly than federal district courts the venue in which the companies are accusing each other of lying making threats and trying to create an illegal monopoly.

Qualcomm offered fair terms as required under rules governing the licensing of patents Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said when asked about the possibility the chipmaker could try to halt iPhone sales anywhere in the world.

7. WhatsApp Status rockets to 175M daily users in 10 weeks despite living in a separate tab. Now bigger than Snapchat

Mark Zuckerberg today announced on earnings call that WhatsApp Status now has million daily users after only launching in.

is aware of the issue and working to fix it as soon as possible a spokesperson told TechCrunch and it expects service to be restored soon.

But deep traction in international markets where Snapchat caught on yet gave it an opportunity to be the first popular app to offer Stories in many countries.

8. So to keep social media safe you DO need editorial judgment. Facebook’s claim not to be a media company just died:

9. Google accused Uber of creating a shell company with its former engineer in order to steal

At stake is a market that could one day be worth tens of billions of dollars and upend everything from the automotive industry to the business that Uber has pioneered to become the world most valuable private tech company.

An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.

Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.

10. “They concocted a story for public consumption,” and tech press fell hook line and sinker

An Uber representative disputes the characterization and told reporters during a court break that the document was from August when the acquisition closed and to include his time at Otto.

Yet Judge Alsup warned that Waymo still has proved there a direct link between Levandwoski stealing the files and what products Uber is working on that would warrant a halt to its car research.

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1. BX, FOXA, TRCO:

$TRCO Twenty-First Century Fox $FOXA in talks with Blackstone $BX to buy Tribune – Reuters

2. JMEI:

$JMEI Jumei Files 2016 Annual Report on Form 20-F – SI

3. XXII:

$XXII 22nd Century Group Receive FDA Clearance for Trial of BRAND B Low Tar-to-Nicotine Ratio Cigarettes

4. TWTR:

$TWTR Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News – BBG

5. TWTR:

$TWTR Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Buys Another 574K Shares, Bringing YTD Purchases to 1M Shares – SI

6. L:

$L Loews Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Improve – Zacks

7. JIVE:

$JIVE Jive Software Enters Agreement to be Acquired for $5.25/Share – SI

8. RDUS:

$RDUS Radius Health Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial and Operating Results – GN

9. TEN:

$TEN Tenneco Reports First Quarter 2017 Results – BW

10. VRX:

$VRX Valeant Pharma Reduces Debt by Another ~$220M – SI

11. SQ, TWTR:

$SQ Jack Dorsey buys $9.5 million in Twitter $TWTR stock while continuing to sell Square – MW

12. COH: $COH Coach tipped as favourite to bag Jimmy Choo in £1bn deal – The Telegraph

13. CRR: $CRR Carbo Ceramics announces exploring options to monetize some of its international assets – Reuters

14. URBN: $URBN Urban Outfitters Board Slammed by Group for ‘Extreme Insularity’ – BBG

15. DO:

$DO Diamond Offshore Announces First Quarter 2017 Results – PRN

16. BSFT:

$BSFT BroadSoft Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results – GN

17. DRE, HTA:

$HTA Healthcare Trust of America Acquires Duke Realty’s $DRE Medical Office Portfolio for $2.75B

18. DISH:

$DISH Dish Network Profit, Revenue Fall; No Letup In Subscriber Losses – IBD

19. NTRP:

$NTRP Neurotrope stock drops on midstage trial results for Alzheimer’s drug – MW

20. ITCI:

$ITCI Intra-Cellular Therapies Announces Update On Schizophrenia Program Following Dialogue w FDA – SI

21. AEZS:

$AEZS Aeterna Zentaris Phase 3 Study of Zoptrex Doesn’t Achieve Primary Endpoint – SI

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1. DNKN:#Dunkin’ Brands upgraded to outperform from sector perform at RBC. Price target raised $10 to $64. $DNKN #stocks

2. ESS:Mizuho Securities Upgrades Essex Property Trust $ESS to Buy

3. FSLR:Credit Suisse Upgrades First Solar $FSLR to Neutral, “Protectionist Probabilities Pierce Bear …

4. MDSO:Jefferies Upgrades Medidata Solutions $MDSO to Hold

5. MYL:Mylan on watch after BMO Capital upgrade

6. TBBK:Bancorp Inc was Upgraded to a Buy Rating at BTIG $TBBK

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1. LLL:Barclays Downgrades L-3 Communications to Hold $LLL

2. SHOP:Hearing Shopify $SHOP Downgraded to Neutral at Monness

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13. NSP:$NSP reports FQ1 earnings of $1.84 EPS and $882.66M Revs –

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17. MCY:$MCY reports FQ1 earnings of 20c EPS and $847.50M Revs –

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1. TWTR:Is Bloomberg going to wind up being the savior of Twitter? $TWTR up 3.5% #premarket on news of Bloomberg partnership for streaming news.

2. ITCI:FDA to $ITCI – we can’t stop you from filing an NDA, but you might wanna think twice before doing so

3. JIVE:$JIVE Halted, news pending

4. OCN:$OCN: GapUP 0.15[+6.6%,fill:30%], PrvCl:2.29, PrvHi:2.36, 0NewHi, AtPivR2, 2:1Accel+, tf:0111111, medFlt:86M, HiPctSht[17%],

5. NRZ:Ocwen jumps after New Residential announces strategic business deal $OCN $NRZ $ASPS

6. AEZS:$AEZS halt

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1. Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News

Twitter is joining forces with Bloomberg to create a service that will stream news produced solely for the social-media company 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

2. Exclusive: Blackstone’s GSO snaps up J. Crew debt in restructuring gambit

GSO Capital Partners, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP’s (BX.N) credit arm, is acquiring more of J. Crew Group Inc’s debt, hoping for a profitable trade that could also give the U.S. fashion retailer more time to stave off bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter said.

3. Dish Network Profit, Revenue Fall; No Letup In Subscriber Losses

Dish Network’s adjusted Q1 adjusted profit fell 11% but was still above analyst estimates. Dish said it lost about 143,000 net pay-TV subscribers.

4. May Day rallies across U.S. to target Trump immigration policy

Labor unions and immigrant advocacy groups will lead May Day rallies in cities across the United States on Monday, with organizers expecting larger-than-usual turnouts to protest the immigration policies of President Donald Trump.

5. Urban Outfitters Board Slammed by Group for ‘Extreme Insularity’

An Urban Outfitters Inc. investor group is urging shareholders to vote against the re-election of two directors, saying the board’s “extreme insularity” has contributed to its weak performance.

Technology News

1. Turkish crackdown on dissent and free expression: – No Wikipedia – No TV dating shows – 3,974 civil servants fired

Continue reading the main story It also ends opposition hopes that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may ease the crackdown and build greater national consensus after his narrow victory in a recent referendum to expand the power of his office.

The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.

In another restriction announced this weekend the government decreed that television channels could no longer broadcast dating programs a staple on Turkish daytime TV and a major source of advertising revenue.

2. Wasn’t long ago when Turkey seen as example for the Middle East. Now Turkey just another example of the Middle East

The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.

3. U.S. study finds 1 in 10 women in tech experience unwanted sexual attention:

Sexual harassment bullying and racist stereotyping are common in the technology industry creating a culture that drives underrepresented employees out of their jobs new research has found.

A large tech firm that pays engineers an average of could lose due to their workplace culture pushing employees out the survey said.

A report analyzed the reasons why tech workers leave their jobs and found a common thread of sexual harassment bullying and stereotyping.

4. Also: 140,000 people dismissed from jobs; 1,500 civil society groups closed; 120 journalists jailed;

The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.

5. Blogs and Twitter are taking a chunk out of ebook sales.

Lotinga says that while there has been an increase in sales of ebooks and subscriptions in areas such as education and academic titles there are certain types of consumer books people prefer to read in paper format.

Issues with a slowdown in ereaders being bought linked to the rise of smartphones has contributed to the decline in ebook popularity and renewed surge in book sales.

Despite this success Lotinga warned that with Europe the largest market for UK books accounting for of international sales it is imperative that Theresa Brexit deal protects the publishing industry.

6. Unfairness costs tech companies $16B a year in employee churn. The @kaporcenter tech leavers survey results are out

It made me feel not valued excluded with no opportunities for White Female Engineer Women reported a range of experiences from being passed over for promotions to stereotyping and harassment.

I felt Hispanic Female Developer Underrepresented people of color were seeking both better compensation and job promotions AND more meaningful balanced work within a positive and inclusive environment.

Better pay Greater balance and schedule flexibility Create a more positive and respectful work environment Improved company leadership Change in job responsibilities and requirements.

7. Snapchat messaging & Stories got their start by being the anti-Facebook but now that philosophy is holding it back

With slowing growth it needed a big change to reinvigorate its aging app and make it easier for people who browse tweets constantly.

But as Snapchat became the defacto teen messaging app and everyone that everyone knew signed up courtesy and social contract obliged people to follow even their more boring acquaintainces.

Algorithmically sorting the feed based on whose Stories you typically watch and who you chat with could make it much easier to drop into Snapchat and immediately get the most delight per minute.

8. China has 131 billion-dollar startups, 30 more than the US. One reason: $199b in new venture funds looking to invest

ET After a frenzied when venture money gushed into apps providing home services from meal delivery to massages funding for startups was supposed to enter what industry insiders called.

For some of those darlings capital did freeze up forcing them to fold shrink or merge with competitors.

industry is suffering a different headache too much money.

9. Erdogan, whose referendum win Trump applauded, is cracking down anew. And Duterte is coming to the White House.

The government justified the ban by claiming that the articles constituted smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena according to a statement published by Anadolu Agency the news wire.

10. Why would Mikey Hayden be the go to expert on upstream problems? He left years before NSA first confessed to probs.

Earlier today the NSA announced its intentions to limit a surveillance technique that had a nasty side effect of sweeping up communications to and from Americans.

In a rare unprompted press statement the NSA explained that it would halt upstream internet communications that are solely a foreign intelligence target restricting its surveillance to messages sent or received by foreign intelligence targets.

TechCrunch spoke with General Michael Hayden former director of the NSA and CIA about how the shift will be implemented and the reasoning behind the surprise decision.

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