BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades FireEye, Inc to Buy | $FEYE, $DIS, $SNAP, $LLY, $NVDA

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2. Nektar Addiction-Resistant Opioid Reduces Chronic Pain in Late-Stage Study

Nektar plans to out-license the experimental opioid NKTR-181 to a partner for continued development.

3. Nektar pain drug NKTR-181 hits endpoint in phase 3 | FierceBiotech

A phase 3 trial of Nektar Therapeutics’ chronic pain asset NKTR-181 has met its primary endpoint. The clinical trial linked the mu-opioid to a statistically-significant improvement in pain scores over placebo, giving Nektar efficacy data to backup an earlier study on the candidate’s abuse potential.

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    The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell but Weeping Angel developed by the CIA Embedded Devices Branch EDB which infests smart TVs transforming them into covert microphones is surely its most emblematic realization.
    In the wake of Edward Snowden leaks about the NSA the technology industry secured a commitment from the Obama administration that the executive would disclose on an ongoing basis rather than hoard serious vulnerabilities exploits bugs or zero days to Apple Google Microsoft and other manufacturers.
    A series of standards lay out CIA malware infestation patterns which are likely to assist forensic crime scene investigators as well as Apple Microsoft Google Samsung Nokia Blackberry Siemens and companies attribute and defend against attacks.
    is now clear however that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business he said in a statement to Recode.
    the last six months Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations Kalanick wrote in a post announcing hire.
    The situation at the company has deteriorated since then obviously after a blog post by a former female engineer chronicled a deeply dysfunctional management led by Kalanick that favored what board member Arianna Huffington called.
    As detailed in a report from Tony Webster earlier this week a Hennepin County judge has granted the Edina Police Department an extraordinary degree of access to citizens Google history as cops attempt to crack the case of a wire transfer fraud.
    Typed into Google a search for the same name Douglas something according to a warrant also turns up photos that were used on a fake passport by the criminal who was seeking a fraudulent wire transfer of.
    In the case of Douglas something or other Edina police are raiding people Google history to catch a man who committed worth of bank fraud.
    Details on how the memory actually works remain generally believed to use some kind of change in resistance to record its performance characteristics and technical capabilities make it appealing for a wide range of applications.
    The low latency and high endurance make Optane a good fit for applications like caching and database servers.
    If using the PCIe bus to attach storage and then use it as memory seems a bit awkward next year Intel plans to release Optane DIMMS.
    For example when asked in about traffic by Business Insider Rivera told the site uniques are a particularly bad stat for aggregators like not untrue reach extends beyond homepage views but also a convenient way of dodging the question.
    really fun I love when that But Techmeme still plays a singular role in spurring journalists to chase a particular type of content scooplets executive shuffles product updates that might matter more to venture capitalists and CEOs than the millions of civilian tech consumers.
    Toggling between a Slack chat and the window where software routinely crawls over sites and blogs Rivera sifted through a cascade of tips before turning his attention to the innards and the tools editors use to rank stories.
    Police in a small suburban town of people just outside Minneapolis Minnesota have won a court order requiring Google to determine who has used its search engine to look up the name of a local financial fraud victim.
    The court order demanding such a massive search is perhaps the most expansive one we seen unconnected to the US national security apparatus and if carried out could set an Orwellian precedent in a bid by the Edina Police Department to solve a crime worth less than.
    The Edina Police Department declined to comment other than to tell Webster that the agency would be reluctant to disclose active case information or specific strategies used during the investigation.
    Details on how the memory actually works remain generally believed to use some kind of change in resistance to record its performance characteristics and technical capabilities make it appealing for a wide range of applications.
    The low latency and high endurance make Optane a good fit for applications like caching and database servers.
    If using the PCIe bus to attach storage and then use it as memory seems a bit awkward next year Intel plans to release Optane DIMMS.
    Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
    While other archive teams have also backed up these lectures using traditional methods publishing them to LBRY offers greater openness usability and robustness.
    The LBRY protocol provides a completely decentralized network for discovering distributing and publishing all types of content and information from books to movies.
    is now clear however that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business he said in a statement to Recode.
    the last six months Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations Kalanick wrote in a post announcing hire.
    The situation at the company has deteriorated since then obviously after a blog post by a former female engineer chronicled a deeply dysfunctional management led by Kalanick that favored what board member Arianna Huffington called.
    For example when asked in about traffic by Business Insider Rivera told the site uniques are a particularly bad stat for aggregators like not untrue reach extends beyond homepage views but also a convenient way of dodging the question.
    really fun I love when that But Techmeme still plays a singular role in spurring journalists to chase a particular type of content scooplets executive shuffles product updates that might matter more to venture capitalists and CEOs than the millions of civilian tech consumers.
    Toggling between a Slack chat and the window where software routinely crawls over sites and blogs Rivera sifted through a cascade of tips before turning his attention to the innards and the tools editors use to rank stories.

 

Tesla Is Raising $1.15 Billion to Fund Its Model 3 | $TSLA, $SLW, $SLV, $VALE, $DG, $GPRO, $ORCL

Tesla Is Raising $1.15 Billion to Fund Its Model 3 | $TSLA, $SLW, $SLV, $VALE, $DG, $GPRO, $ORCL

In the Chat room, we went long $SLV calls and we were already long $GDX anticipating a higher move post #FOMC

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2. Dollar General’s sales beat; to raise store managers’ pay

U.S. discount retailer Dollar General Corp (DG.N) reported a better-than-expected 13.7 percent increase in quarterly sales on Thursday, helped by higher spending at its stores driven by strong demand for home products.

3. Letter bomb at IMF’s Paris office injures employee

A female employee of the International Monetary Fund was injured in the face and arms on Thursday when a letter bomb posted to the world lender’s Paris office blew up as she opened it, police said.

4. PTC Therapeutics Announces Agreement to Acquire Emflaza™ for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in U.S.

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6. Tesla Is Raising $1.15 Billion to Fund Its Model 3

Elon Musk is putting up $25M of his own money.

7. Hyundai recalling nearly 1 million Sonata cars in U.S.: regulator

Hyundai Motor Co will recall about 978,000 Sonata cars in the United States because of a seat belt glitch that has led to one minor injury, according to a report filed on Thursday by the South Korean automaker with U.S. regulators.

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    With more than million wireless customers a shared view of the importance of mobile and video ad tech a deep content focus through AOL Verizon brings clear synergies to the table.
    Nasdaq YHOO today announce they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire operating business for approximately billion in cash subject to customary closing adjustments.
    The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital.
    Troy Hunt Hi I Troy Hunt I write this blog create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals.
    Unknown hackers apparently found an unprotected database for the app Wishbone and stole its contents which are now circulating on the internet undergrounds according to Troy Hunt a security researcher who runs the breach notification website Have I Been Pwned.
    The app has since become extremely popular with bored teenagers who can vote on polls such as who better between Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga whether they are a serious or playful selfie taker and what they prefer between partying or staying home and do homework.
    Given that and considering that in some instances the leak exposed the full name birthdate gender email address and cellphone number of underage girls and boys this is a serious data breach that could put the victims in danger not only of identity theft or spam.
    are no free passes for foreign criminal behavior Assistant Attorney General McCord told reporters at a press conference.
    When Yahoo first disclosed the breach in September the company attributed the attack to actor a claim that some security experts found questionable at the time.
    Subsequent reports found that the Yahoo database was sold a number of times suggesting a criminal profit motive rather than intelligence gathering.
    More than years after it first caught mainstream attention and began to destroy everything about how we finance culture the digital economy is finally beginning to coalesce around a sustainable way of supporting content.
    Even if lots of people are paying for services like Spotify critics say that it can be difficult for musicians especially smaller and ones to make a sustainable living from the platform.
    This sort of alternative arrangement easy to pursue it can take time effort and skills in unusual dark arts such as how marketing works.
    The action on Wednesday was the latest in a series of criminal prosecutions that American officials have brought since against cyberattackers who they charge were acting on behalf of foreign governments including China North Korea and Iran.
    Senator Dianne Feinstein of California the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee said that with Russia blamed in the cyberattacks involving both Yahoo and the presidential election United States must take steps not only to bring those responsible to justice but also ensure future attacks are not allowed to occur in the first.
    He used information from the Yahoo accounts to steal credit and gift card numbers send spam and redirect searches for erectile dysfunction treatments to an online pharmacy that paid for the traffic according to the indictment.
    Ivan Pavlov a lawyer specializing in treason cases was quoted by the Interfax and state Tass news agencies as saying that FSB officials Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev and Ruslan Stoyanov were charged on Wednesday.
    The source for The Daily information Kremlin adviser and parliamentarian Sergei Markov said Mikhailov was taken into custody in late December by his own FSB colleagues during a meeting a bag over his.
    The Kremlin spokesman also said that while he could not confirm President Vladimir Putin was aware of all the details of the treason charges issue is not for the first day discussed in the media so along with the other materials of course these reports were presented to the.
    More than years after it first caught mainstream attention and began to destroy everything about how we finance culture the digital economy is finally beginning to coalesce around a sustainable way of supporting content.
    Even if lots of people are paying for services like Spotify critics say that it can be difficult for musicians especially smaller and ones to make a sustainable living from the platform.
    This sort of alternative arrangement easy to pursue it can take time effort and skills in unusual dark arts such as how marketing works.
    As a starting point for our recent PNAS paper in which we propose an approach to overcome catastrophic forgetting in neural networks we took inspiration from theories about the consolidation of previously acquired skills and memories in mammalian and human brains.
    As shown in the figure below without EWC the agent quickly forgets each game after it stops playing it blue.
    By showing that those same theories can be applied in a more realistic and complex machine learning context we hope to give further weight to the idea that synaptic consolidation is key to retaining memories and.
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1. Goldman Turns Cautious on Stocks as Fed Threatens to Upset Calm

The longer the seemingly unstoppable reflation rally continues, the more warning signs start to flash for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — especially in stocks.

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    Since announcing the preview in November more than organizations have started using Microsoft Teams including Accenture Alaska Airlines Cerner Corporation ConocoPhillips Deloitte Expedia Hunt Walter Thompson Hendrick Motorsports Sage Trek Bicycle and Three UK.
    We also added support for audit log search eDiscovery and legal hold for channels chats and files as well as mobile application management with Microsoft Intune.
    With that in mind working to ensure every team member can participate with new accessibility features including support for screen readers high contrast and navigation.
    Content that promotes hate or violence against a group of people based on criteria including but not limited to race or ethnicity religion gender nationality or citizenship disability age sexual orientation or veteran status.
    In two other examples given raters are instructed to flag a result said to falsely represent a scientific study in an offensive manner and a page that seems to exist solely to promote intolerance.
    In an increasingly charged political environment natural to wonder how raters will deal with content easily found on major news sites that call both liberals and conservatives idiots or worse.
    Telle Whitney the president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute a nonprofit that supports women in technology says gender bias is a big problem in which are frequently run by brotherhoods of young many cases friends or out of elite colleges.
    Too many decisions are made on gut instinct the training argues A hiring manager looks at a résumé and sees a certain fraternity or hobby or a conventionally white or male name and bang to the unconscious brain making shortcuts that person gets an interview.
    an attempt to duplicate one of the most renowned studies in the genre In Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse showed that when major orchestras allowed musicians to audition behind a screen that hid their gender the percentage of women selected rose dramatically.
    Telle Whitney the president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute a nonprofit that supports women in technology says gender bias is a big problem in which are frequently run by brotherhoods of young many cases friends or out of elite colleges.
    Too many decisions are made on gut instinct the training argues A hiring manager looks at a résumé and sees a certain fraternity or hobby or a conventionally white or male name and bang to the unconscious brain making shortcuts that person gets an interview.
    an attempt to duplicate one of the most renowned studies in the genre In Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse showed that when major orchestras allowed musicians to audition behind a screen that hid their gender the percentage of women selected rose dramatically.
    Following a lawsuit in an Illinois federal court parent company Standard Innovation has been ordered to pay a total of C to owners with those who used the vibrators associated app entitled to the full amount each.
    In addition data is collected and sent back to Standard Innovation letting the company know about the temperature of the device and the vibration intensity which combined reveal intimate information about the sexual habits.
    The flaws with the sex toy were first revealed at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas in by New hackers and.
    But with a piece of software the researchers built called Gyrophone they found that the gyroscopes were also sensitive enough to allow them to pick up some sound waves turning them into crude microphones.
    Though the result is unintelligible to the human ear Stanford researcher Yan Michalevsky and Gabi Nakibly built a custom speech recognition program designed to interpret it.
    In this case the researchers say mobile operating system makers like Google could prevent the gyroscope problem by simply limiting the frequency of access to the sensor as Apple already does.
    In episode of CxO Talk Gartner analyst Mark McDonald presents a compelling and insightful view of social collaboration and relationships between IT the chief marketing officer and lines of business.
    As of today there are more than integrations available or coming soon with bots and connectors from companies like Meekan Growbot ModuleQ SAP SuccessFactors and Trello.
    Microsoft also is continuing to integrate Teams with its own productivity software and services Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Skype etc.
    Snapchat is doubling down on private messaging as Instagram and Facebook Messenger clone and steal usage from its Stories feature.
    Scroll down to add Snapchat and your Best based on your interaction who have created personalized Bitmoji avatars for themselves will automatically appear as widgets on the home screen.
    By redoubling its efforts in chat Snap could entrench itself as the most casual way to talk with friends since all messages delete themselves by default.
    Following a lawsuit in an Illinois federal court parent company Standard Innovation has been ordered to pay a total of C to owners with those who used the vibrators associated app entitled to the full amount each.
    In addition data is collected and sent back to Standard Innovation letting the company know about the temperature of the device and the vibration intensity which combined reveal intimate information about the sexual habits.
    The flaws with the sex toy were first revealed at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas in by New hackers and.

 

Intel paying $63.54 per share for Mobileye. | YouTube news and OIL news Plus More | $USO, $GOOGL, $INTL, $MBLY

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1. Phase 4 Study Shows EXPAREL® Versus an Active Comparator Significantly Reduces Opioid Consumption and Postsurgical Pain in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

Multicenter randomized study serves as unequivocal evidence of EXPAREL as an opioid minimizing agent in a complex and painful surgical procedure. Protocol’ s best practice infiltration technique for the …

2. The Most Important Player in the AIG CEO Resignation: Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn was at the center of last week’s surprise resignation of Peter Hancock at insurance giant AIG.

3. Twitter Traders Yap, but Aurinia Raising $150 Million was a Well-Executed Deal

Aurinia executives don’t manage the business to serve the interest of traders and their desire to flip the stock for a few bucks’ profit.

4. YY Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Unaudited Financial Results

GUANGZHOU, China, March 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — YY Inc. (NASDAQ: YY ) (“YY” or the “Company”), a live streaming platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2016.

5. DSW tops profit estimates, but sales fall short

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6. Prudential Raises Dividend as Full-Year Profit Gains on Asia

Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s largest insurer, raised its ordinary dividend after earnings rose 7 percent, helped by a stronger business in Asia.

7. Oil Drops After Saudis Tell OPEC They Reversed Some Output Cuts

Oil reversed earlier gains after Saudi Arabia told OPEC it raised output back above 10 million barrels a day in February, reversing about a third of the cuts it made the previous month.

8. Tesla Model Y unofficial render ahead of launch

The Tesla Model Y is expected to be a compact SUV built on the same platform as the Model 3. The automaker hasn’t officially commented on when it plans to unveil the vehicle, but we have to assume …

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    ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
    He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
    As Uber scrambles to address an internal scandal over employee allegations of systemic sexism facing another increasingly heated labor battle in Seattle a union drive led by the Teamsters.
    While the Teamsters worked to win the city approvals necessary to represent drivers Uber ramped up a sprawling phalanx of efforts including everything from notifications and text messages to seminars collective bargaining pizza parties and podcasts.
    For some Uber drivers drawn to the platform by its promise of a job with flexible hours union membership which comes with dues and a hierarchical power structure can be.
    Updated March.
    ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
    He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
    That seem like a long way out but Krzanich told Squawk Alley on Monday it important to start now.
    Krzanich said it a matter of spending more time with the investment community to explain the strategy behind Mobileye technologies.
    They more than just cars they be in devices like the spotting cameras on helicopters they be in drones and they be in robotics as well Krzanich said.
    Last year Google opened a startup incubator called Area which was designed to let employees use some of their discretionary time to start up their own companies.
    Once you log in with your Google account greeted with a short introductory video that explains how it all works.
    You can watch and comment on something like a movie trailer but if you rotate your phone degrees it let you type text or add reactions.
    Currently available only in the US to people with an invite hint use the code PIZZA it lets you see who else is watching the same video as you in and you can also add comments and reactions.
    Tap a video and spot your avatar moving along a progress bar as well as other icons.
    like to see some of these features integrated into the default YouTube app given how much time I spend on the platform these days and often beam clips over to friends via messaging apps be great to be able to interact with them over clips without switching screens.
    We also a media company on top of that because we streaming hours of live TV content each day and have another classes.
    A couple of years ago we also leaked out on Reddit how to unlock the device and download Netflix but there have been a lot of people asking for it.
    Overall I do assume that content in this area is going to massively heat up in the next year or two including among all the traditional stationary bike manufacturers who have realized that people do want to stare at a wall and motivate themselves.
    We also a media company on top of that because we streaming hours of live TV content each day and have another classes.
    A couple of years ago we also leaked out on Reddit how to unlock the device and download Netflix but there have been a lot of people asking for it.
    Overall I do assume that content in this area is going to massively heat up in the next year or two including among all the traditional stationary bike manufacturers who have realized that people do want to stare at a wall and motivate themselves.
    We currently intend to use the net proceeds that we will receive from this offering for working capital other general corporate purposes and to fund our growth strategies including continued investments in our business expanding our international footprint and growing demand for our external use case.
    The Okta Application Network is an extensive partner ecosystem which includes among thousands of others integrations with Amazon Web Services Atlassian Box DocuSign Google Cloud Microsoft NetSuite SAP Salesforce ServiceNow Slack Workday Workplace by Facebook and Zendesk.
    Our Okta Application Network is an extensive partner ecosystem that includes integrations with Amazon Web Services Atlassian Box DocuSign Google Cloud Microsoft NetSuite SAP Salesforce ServiceNow Slack Workday Workplace by Facebook and Zendesk among thousands of others.
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1. Intel to buy Mobileye for $14-$15 billion: Israeli media report

Chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) has agreed to buy Israeli technology firm Mobileye (MBLY.N) for $14-$15 billion dollars, according to TheMarker, one of Israel’s leading financial newspapers.

2. Intel to Buy Mobileye for $15.3 Billion

Intel Corp. struck a deal to buy Mobileye NV for $15.3 billion, the latest investment by a technology company in the future of self-driving cars.

3. Starbucks Should Continue To Outperform (NASDAQ:SBUX)

Wedbush’s Nick Setyan expects “Americas comp momentum, accelerating CAP unit growth, a successful EMEA turnaround, and multiple CPG and emerging market opportunities…

4. M&T Bank Should Focus on the Future

Its CEO’s gripes about regulation won’t boost the lender’s performance, so he should concentrate on what will.

5. Intel Kickstarts Autonomous Engine, To Buy Mobileye For $15 Billion (NYSE:MBLY)

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has set its foot firmly in the fast-growing market for fully autonomous vehicles by agreeing to buy Israel-based Mobileye NV (NYSE: MBLY) for…

6. Press Release | Investors | Agios

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , March 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGIO) today announced that Celgene Corporation has designated the development candidate focused on MTAP (methylthioadenosine phosphorylase) deleted cancers as a development candidate under the master research and collaboration agreement (the “Agreement”) dated May 17, 2016 .

7. Heat Biologics Meets Efficacy Endpoint in its Phase 1b Lung Cancer Trial to Progress to Phase 2

Encouraging results evaluating HS-110 in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab (Opdivo ® )

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    ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
    He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
    A pair of damning advisories independently published Wednesday raise serious questions about the security assurances of Confide a messaging app that billed as providing battle tested military grade encryption and is reportedly being used by individuals inside the US government.
    One of the bulletins published by security firm Quarkslab warned that current versions of those available for Macs PCs iPhones Android devices and Apple provide true encryption at all at least as that term is commonly defined.
    Our security team is continuously monitoring our systems to protect our users integrity and we were able to detect anomalous behavior and remediate many of the issues during IOActive testing in real time.
    In an order today the commission found that the proposed fund was too susceptible to fraud due to the unregulated nature of Bitcoin.
    Unfortunately for speculators the commission ultimately concluded that the price of Bitcoin is still too vulnerable to manipulation for it to be certified.
    markets related to the underlying asset provide a deterrent to manipulation the commission wrote in its analysis.
    As Uber scrambles to address an internal scandal over employee allegations of systemic sexism facing another increasingly heated labor battle in Seattle a union drive led by the Teamsters.
    While the Teamsters worked to win the city approvals necessary to represent drivers Uber ramped up a sprawling phalanx of efforts including everything from notifications and text messages to seminars collective bargaining pizza parties and podcasts.
    For some Uber drivers drawn to the platform by its promise of a job with flexible hours union membership which comes with dues and a hierarchical power structure can be.
    Updated March.
    ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
    He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
    But the piggybacking on activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure disrupting bank operations stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.
    At one point he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.
    In the summer of the together with law enforcement agencies in over half a dozen countries carried out Operation Tovar a coordinated attack on criminal infrastructure that shut down his network and liberated computers infected with GameOver ZeuS.
    After authentication fixed identifiers are no longer used in all other types of queries made by the client the authorization field contains the token returned by the server.
    The official website boasts the confidentiality provided by the product through three qualifiers encrypted ephemeral and screenshot protected.
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    He has been indicted in the United States accused of creating a sprawling network of computers to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts around the world targeting anyone with enough money worth stealing from a pest control company in North Carolina to a police department in Massachusetts to a Native American tribe in Washington.
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Strong jobs number mean markets higher or lower ? | #ratehike, $SPY, $ULTA, $TEAR, $TIME, $ZUMZ

Strong jobs number mean markets higher or lower ? | #ratehike, $SPY, $ULTA, $TEAR, $TIME, $ZUMZ

Holding in chop and pull back is hard, but if you have your plan written, it actually not bad..We stayed long our core positions, traders in chat room added some long exposures via $TNA, and $SPY/$ES also we placed some great #earning winners. here is the pre market movers

 

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3. SRRA:$SRRA Old alert. Upgraded this morning by SunTrust to BUY and a $4 price target. Could squeeze over 1.67 targeting the 2.10 area.

 

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