by Alpha | Feb 24, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. J.C. Penney to shut 130-140 stores; quarterly sales drop
Department store operator J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) said on Friday it would close about 130-140 stores over the next few months, and reported a 0.7 percent drop in same-store sales for the holiday quarter.
2. Unilever says Kraft’s shock bid to spur focus on short-term value
Unilever (ULVR.L) said the shock of Kraft Heinz’s (KHC.O) opportunistic approach had jolted it to re-examine its strategy, and all aspects of the consumer goods giant’s business were up for review to increase shareholder value.
3. Cempra’s Fusidic Acid Achieves Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Study of ABSSSI
—Fusidic acid met primary endpoint and secondary efficacy endpoints—
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outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
Today taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade secrets and infringing our patents.
Hundreds of Waymo engineers have spent thousands of hours and our company has invested millions of dollars to design a highly specialized and unique LiDAR system.
seeking an injunction to stop the misappropriation of our designs return all trade secret information and cease infringing our patents.
Today taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade secrets and infringing our patents.
Hundreds of Waymo engineers have spent thousands of hours and our company has invested millions of dollars to design a highly specialized and unique LiDAR system.
seeking an injunction to stop the misappropriation of our designs return all trade secret information and cease infringing our patents.
In a opinion and order which was published on February but only began to circulate amongst privacy lawyers and legal scholars on Twitter on Wednesday Judge David Weisman wrote that while investigators did have probable cause to search a particular home these limitations do impact the ability of the government to seek the extraordinary authority related to compelling individuals to provide their fingerprints to unlock an Apple electronic device.
First the Court finds that the warrant does not establish sufficient probable cause to compel any person who happens to be at the subject premises at the time of the search to give his fingerprint to unlock an unspecified Apple electronic device.
As I read the opinion the government relies on old fingerprinting cases to argue that the Fourth and Fifth Amendments stand in the way of what they are seeking to do here Abraham Rein a tech lawyer told Ars by.
outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
outsize success in terms of growth of market share revenues and valuation are impressive but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect exclusionary cliques lack of diversity and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form.
Freada gave a talk on hidden bias to the company in early and we have both been contacted by senior leaders at Uber though notably not by Travis the CEO for advice on a variety of issues mostly pertaining to diversity and inclusion up to and including this past weekend.
Uber has had countless opportunities to do the right thing from signing on to the Kapor Capital Commitment to working with Project Include to building out their diversity inclusion team years ago to developing a state of the art people ops function.
Mentors show you something about yourself that you realize.
Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal the founders of giant Snapdeal told employees that they would take a pay cut as they lay off hundreds of workers in a bid to make a profit a source at the company said.
Several members of the company senior leadership team have also offered to join Bahl and Bansal in taking a pay cut said the source who decline to be identified because they were authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
They in the company of big names like Facebook FB founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla TSLA CEO Elon Musk who officially take home or less.
by Alpha | Feb 23, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. CYCC:$CYCC fail Announces Top-Line Results From Pivotal Phase 3 SEAMLESS Study in Elderly Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia
4. MBVX:$MBVX Therapeutics Announces FDA Authorization to Proceed with MVT-1075 in a Phase I Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
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1. Pernix Therapeutics Prevails in Zohydro® ER ANDA Litigation
MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTX ), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Pain and CNS conditions, announced today that it received a favorable opinion in its litigation with Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. regarding a proposed generic version of Zohydro ER. Judge Gregory M. Sleet of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware concluded that Actavis’ proposed generic versions of Zohydro ER infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 9,132,096 (which expires on September 12, 2034) and 6,902,742 (which expires on November 1, 2019) following a trial that took place in October 2016. The Judge has entered an order enjoining Actavis from engaging in the commercial manufacture, use, offer to sell, or sale in the United States, or importation into the United States of Actavis’ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) product prior to expiration of the two patents. Actavis did not assert invalidity or unenforceability of the patents at trial.
2. Bristol-Myers Looms as Pharma’s Next Megadeal as Activists Join
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. was once one of the drug industry’s highest-flying companies. Now the pharmaceutical giant has gone from predator to prey, as its sagging stock price has invited in activist investors who are already forcing changes.
3. Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
A former employee’s blog post has raised questions about the limits of meritocracy at Uber and how much executives knew about the treatment of employees.
4. dough on Twitter
“CEO Of $SCYX nice update at RBC yesterday”
5. Ultra Clean beats Street 4Q forecasts
The Hayward, California-based company said it had profit of 30 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 36 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The …
6. Sage Therapeutics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update
Sage Therapeutics, Inc. today reported business highlights and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.
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Lansing previously led the digital department for the Republican National Committee.
President Donald Trump director of scheduling Caroline Wiles was also among the six staffers who did not pass the intensive FBI screening.
The intensive background check includes questions on the applicant credit score substance use and other personal subjects.
Peter Thiel became one of the American political most notorious figures in when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media my former employer even before he won a direct line to the White he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on board of directors a Rolodex of software luminaries and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism.
We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and in my case somewhat deviant people like to In that same article Thiel lays out mission with privacy in mind to terrorism while preserving civil After the first wave of revelations spurred by the whistleblower Edward Snowden Palantir was quick to deny that it had any connection to the NSA spy program known as PRISM which shared an unfortunate code name with one of its own software products.
In pitch its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable analysts working together to truly leverage their collective The fake target a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called Paraiso Movement was suspected of a terrorist bombing but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to and track members of any political or ideological group.
Peter Thiel became one of the American political most notorious figures in when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media my former employer even before he won a direct line to the White he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on board of directors a Rolodex of software luminaries and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism.
We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and in my case somewhat deviant people like to In that same article Thiel lays out mission with privacy in mind to terrorism while preserving civil After the first wave of revelations spurred by the whistleblower Edward Snowden Palantir was quick to deny that it had any connection to the NSA spy program known as PRISM which shared an unfortunate code name with one of its own software products.
In pitch its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable analysts working together to truly leverage their collective The fake target a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called Paraiso Movement was suspected of a terrorist bombing but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to and track members of any political or ideological group.
Gordon Gekko said that greed is good that it captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit A hedge fund hunts for an edge and then maniacally guards it locking down its trading data and barring its traders from joining the company next door.
Inspired by the same tech that underpins bitcoin his creation joins a growing wave of what people in the world of call tokens assets that enable the crowdsourcing of everything from venture capital to computing power.
For Craib a trained mathematician with an enormous wave of curly hair topping his frame the hope is that Numeraire will encourage Wall Street to operate more like an open source software project.
SAN FRANCISCO When new employees join Uber they are asked to subscribe to core company values including making bold bets being with the customer and be The service particularly emphasizes the idea that the best and brightest will rise to the top based on their efforts even if it means stepping on toes to get there.
Among the most egregious accusations from employees who either witnessed or were subject to incidents and who asked to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements and fear of retaliation One Uber manager groped female breasts at a company retreat in Las Vegas.
The chief executive Travis Kalanick has opened an internal investigation into the accusations and has brought in the board member Arianna Huffington and the former attorney general Eric Holder to look into harassment issues and the human resources department.
Industry has developed various standards within the framework of these rules such as Bluetooth and Zigbee that are designed to coexist in shared spectrum.
and stakeholders worked together under the auspices of the Alliance to develop guidelines and an evaluation test plan that was released last fall.
We remain committed to ensuring that all who seek to introduce new products and technologies may do so provided their devices comply with the FCC rules.
Over food and drinks on Brown hosted a roundtable of top editors and executives at prominent US news outlets including the New Yorker David Remnick the New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin Vox Melissa Bell and USA s Joanne Lipman.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially downplayed the notion that widespread fake political news stories could have swayed voters the company eventually instituted a handful of measures to stem and hired Brown a former CNN host and controversial education activist to rebuild trust with the media.
One attendee said the room also discussed plans for helping publishers begin to draw in significant advertising revenue from the videos they are producing for the platform.
Today Instagram launches the ability to share a mix of up to photos or videos as a single carousel post that friends can swipe through.
Users can then edit up to photos and videos individually or with a single filter on everything chooe their order and tag friends in each.
Instagram suggests that you could use the new feature to your favorite moments of your best surprise birthday party from setting up to when they walk through the door.
AMD executives confidently unveiled the first three desktop chips to attack Core supported by several motherboard vendors and boutique system builders.
Analysts say AMD appears to have done its homework leaving Intel in danger of giving up market share in the PC microprocessors that built its company.
Mark Hachman Su reiterated that she believes AMD will have adequate supplies of Ryzen on hand to meet customer demand a claim that Moor Insights analyst Pat Moorhead says confirmed.
Per AMD demonstrations the Ryzen also beat the Intel chip in Handbrake video encoding and boasted somewhat better frame rates in Sniper Elite at.
AMD is promising that March will be a hard launch too with chips in abundant supply or more different motherboards from a wide range of OEMs and systems from different boutique PC vendors.
Late in the year the company will be launching its new Vega GPU architecture the Naples server CPU mobile Ryzen parts with integrated graphics processors and Radeon Instinct headless GPUs designed for supercomputing number crunching.
by Alpha | Feb 22, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. OCUL:$OCUL FDA Accepts NDA Resubmission for DEXTENZA™ for the Treatment of Ocular Pain Occurring After Ophthalmic Surgery. PDUFA 07/19/17
7. TJX:TJX Q4 EPS $1.03 vs $1 Est., Sales $9.5B vs $9.44B Est.; Sees FY17 EPS $3.80-$3.89 vs $3.79 Est.; Raises Buyback from $1.3B to $1.8B $TJX
9. GEO:GEO Group to acquire Community Education Centers for $360m in cash. $GEO #mna #stocks
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3. Toll Brothers beats and raises the low end of its deliveries forecast
Toll Brothers now expects to sell 6,700-7,500 homes in fiscal 2017, compared with its previous forecast of 6,500-7,500 units.
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As officials play in the fight against sophisticated hacking and fake news operations they fear Europe and its elections remain vulnerable at a critical moment The project of unity hangs in the balance challenged by populist forces within the bloc and pressures from Russia and beyond.
Jakub Janda a deputy director of European Values a think tank that has worked with East Stratcom in Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Despite the regionwide push to counter false reports experts question whether such efforts by governments and publishers will have a meaningful effect.
In Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing tough competition ahead of elections in September the domestic intelligence service already has reported a sharp rise in phishing attacks in recent months aimed at political parties and members of the Parliament.
As for the HorseFly itself the drone features a carbon fiber construction is powered by a proprietary lithium battery pack and capable of a flight time at a top speed of miles per hour the company says.
guidance system draws from online databases covering airspace topograhpic weather and wind conditions and data from sensors like a GPS Compass LIDAR and infrared camera for landing.
The transportation and delivery company originally poached a huge team away from Carnegie Mellon University and is now getting a taste of its own medicine with Ford recruiting heavily from its ranks to develop cars.
Snapchat will need to match Facebook monetization levels on a basis if it is to ramp ad spending beyond the billion a year at which Twitter began to run into revenue growth issues Cordwell predicted.
Our price target effectively assumes Snap trades at over EBIT earnings before interest and tax multiple at well in excess of the historical range of this metric for Facebook though margins still likely to be below structural potential at this point.
Earlier on Tuesday Reuters reported that while investors attending the London leg of the Snap IPO road show were impressed with sleek presentation some were disappointed the company did not provide projections on future revenue and advertising share.
Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.
Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.
Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.
Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.
Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.
Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.
Tuesday meeting on the floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City Columbus Circle drew a crowd of nearly people that one investor said included the entire hedge fund mafia.
Inside the hotel ballroom guests bearing the bright yellow IPO pitchbooks distributed at the event were treated to a light if uninspired lunch paired with heady prognostications by management.
While attendees nibbled on turkey sandwiches and caesar salad wraps Snap CEO Evan Spiegel chief strategy officer Imran Khan and CFO Drew Vollero answered questions from the crowd according to people who attended the event.
From devices regulating and monitoring factory production flows to intelligence stitched into a arteries to tune streetlights to the presence of people vehicle traffic and weather conditions.
It is seen as the standard that will unlock long range IoT connectivity at scale as mobile network operators only have to upgrade their existing LTE systems to make it work.
It is a portfolio we are continually investing in as we seek to help architect a world where hundreds of billions of devices can actively connect to global networks linking people businesses and the environment in powerful new ways we are only just beginning to imagine.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and fellow executives faced questions from investors about declining user engagement according to fund managers present at the meeting who did not want to be identified as the discussions were private.
Proceedings were housed in a conference center in the heart of financial district at Bishopsgate a few paces from Liverpool Street Station decked out with yellow branding.
But in the Q A and a series of smaller meetings with Snap executives investors focused their questioning on user growth a sign that the slowdown is a serious issue in the minds of fund managers as is competition from rivals such as Facebook Inc.
His power and ability to influence is greater than any President subject to political reality and and besides as Zuckerberg made clear last week his concern is not a mere country but rather the entire world.
Until of course said meddling was uncovered at which point the service having so significantly betrayed trust would lose a substantial number of users and thus its lucrative and privileged place in advertising leading to a plunge in market value.
To be sure algorithms are written by humans which means they will always have implicit bias and the focus on engagement has its own harms particularly the creation of filter bubbles and fake news but I have longed viewed use for explicit political ends to be the greatest danger of all.
we start offering beer and wine there will be an associate checking identification an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email.
Dubbed Amazon Go the store concept allows shoppers to grab prepared food and drinks off of shelves and automatically be billed without stopping to pay on the way out.
Amazon accomplishes this feat by making shoppers scan an app on the way in and then uses a mix of sensors cameras and computer vision to track the items that each customer takes.
by Alpha | Feb 21, 2017 | Pre-Market
Stock Market seems to be unstoppable in the first half of the past week, as the major indices continued their uninterrupted advance to historic highs. The last couple of days of the week saw a shallow correction on Wall Street, but the technical damage is limited, despite the slightly alarming weakness in small caps. Market still show some noticeable strength in sizable market mover stocks like Apple ($AAPL) which continues its strong Uptrend.
$WMT Did a Solid Quarter and Stock is up over 3.4%, Last week we saw huge call buying and it was posted in CHAT ROOM
by Alpha | Feb 17, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. VFC:$VFC miss and lowers outlook, bread and butter North Face biz continues to weaken , -8%
4. KHC:@jimcramer $KHC/Unilever deal was proposed. Rejected.
7. TSRO:RBC Just out raising PT 0n $TSRO to 202 from 142
8. ABBV:$ABBV Announces $5 Billion Increase to Stock Repurchase Program
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1. Kraft Makes $143 Billion Merger Bid for Unilever
Kraft Heinz has made a $143 billion takeover approach to U.K consumer products giant Unilever, a move that would bring together some of the best-known household brands in the world.
2. Deere Raises Profit Forecast as It Sees Signs of Recovery
Deere & Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of farming machinery, raised its 2017 profit forecast and said there are signs the worst may be over in a market that’s suffered a sustained slump lasting years.
3. Chinese foreign minister meets U.S. Secretary of State in Germany
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of the G20 top economies in the German city of Bonn, the official Xinhua news agency said.
4. Biotech Stock Mailbag: Bulls love a distracted Trump, Protalix, Acadia, Sarepta
TheStreet’s Adam Feuerstein answers reader questions about biotech stocks.
5. Celgene Announces Positive Results from Phase III SUNBEAM Trial of Oral Ozanimod in Patients with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis | Business Wire
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) today announced that its phase III SUNBEAM trial, evaluating the efficacy and safety of ozanimod, an investigationa
6. Daiichi Sankyo and ArQule Announce the Completion of the METIV-HCC Phase 3 Study of Tivantinib in Second-Line Treatment of MET-Overexpressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma
ArQule, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQL) and Daiichi Sankyo today announced that the METIV-HCC phase 3 study of tivantinib in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) did no
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The fact that this was framed as a investigation and major story for the Journal should be a reminder of both the outsize paychecks digital video personalities draw Forbes estimated earnings at million in making him the star on YouTube and the vast devoted fanbases that enable them.
Rewriting Felix history to make him a monster pulled along by the gravity of recent cautionary tales like those of Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer is investigative laziness that obscures a much more important fact that the boys and men who group together online for the explicit proliferation of hate speech and misogyny will almost inevitably keep pushing the line until they end up in a truly dark place.
Because relationship to his following like that of Milo to his own fans is both a reciprocal system of validation and a male personality cult we diagnose it as anything out of the ordinary We take it at face value because are We can demonize the ones who go too far as an idea continue to ignore them in reality and then act shocked when their need for attention finally intersects with their ability to make themselves heard.
But Monday night The Wall Street Journal reported that the Maker Studios a longtime partner of would no longer have anything to do with him later YouTube announced that it was canceling a show developed with Kjellberg and removing his channel from its lucrative advertising program.
Continue reading the main story With more than a billion users YouTube has become not merely a platform but almost a kind of internet the host of a gigantic economy and a set of cultures governed by a new and novel sort of corporation sometimes at length and other times up close.
But it is in interest for the inner workings of its platform including recommendation algorithms the way it calculates advertising rates and the precise locations of its boundaries to remain at least somewhat secret to prevent creators from gaming the quirks at the expense of either user experience or its bottom line.
PewDiePie apologized today for making jokes that he now says too and which led to him losing major deals with Disneyand YouTube.
sorry for the words that I used as I know they offended people and I admit that the joke itself went too far he says in a video titled Response that he uploaded to YouTube this afternoon.
Early in the video PewDiePie says his experience with media outlets has led him to believe that they misrepresent people for their own personal He later calls the Journal article on him.
A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.
It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad to continue increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can create the greatest positive impact on the world.
It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.
With the exception of Snap and a few others technology companies are waiting much longer to go public than in the past and the ample funding available from private investors at generous terms have made mergers a less attractive option.
When Emil Michael senior vice president of business takes the stage at a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday expect him to address a topic on the minds of many employees when exactly the company will go public.
In late Uber began offering employees restricted stock units instead of options which do require paying taxes upfront one of the people said.
After The Wall Street Journal reported on his pattern of using jokes in his videos Maker Studios cut ties with the internet celeb and YouTube canceled the second season of his streaming reality show.
on the internet you tell if something was intended as a joke or a sincere Offensive further confuses the mix While important to call out things like racism sexism ableism and homophobia doing so plays into hands.
In December he announced plans to delete his YouTube channel once it reached million subscribers because the platform had changed its homepage a move that meant his viewers saw fewer videos and less often.
Three years after Lenovo closed its billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility the smartphone business remains well behind Vivo Oppo and Huawei in terms of market share.
In it appointed human resources director Gina Qiao to lead smartphone sales in China the third executive in the position since the Motorola takeover.
Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing said he remained confident the division will achieve by the second half of the next fiscal year ending March.
A few years ago after an earthquake in Nepal the Facebook community raised million to help people recover and rebuild which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.
It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad to continue increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can create the greatest positive impact on the world.
It worth noting that major advances in AI are required to understand text photos and videos to judge whether they contain hate speech graphic violence sexually explicit content and more.
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1. Exclusive: Big U.S. banks to push for easing of money laundering rules
America’s largest banks are to propose a complete overhaul of how financial institutions investigate and report potential criminal activity, arguing that rules imposed in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and strengthened during the Obama administration are onerous and ineffective, sources said. The Clearing House, a trade association representing the largest U.S. banks including Goldman Sachs (GS.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Bank of America (BAC.N), has long raised concerns about the effectiveness of the current rules, but this will be the first time the group has publicly called for them to be revamped.
2. Elon Musk Is Really Boring
The billionaire visionary is digging in on a tunnel project to skirt gridlock, but there’s a hole in his Trump-era business bet.
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4. Apple Vowed To Revolutionize Television. An Inside Look at Why It Hasn’t
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Twitter is temporarily decreasing the reach of tweets from users it believes are engaging in abusive behavior via a new protocol that began rolling out last week.
The protocol temporarily prevents tweets from users Twitter deems abusive from being displayed to people who follow them effectively reducing their reach.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said that providing users with better controls is the top priority and this effort is part of that.
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In a statement Yahoo tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the actor responsible for the theft of private data from more than billion user accounts in and.
The catastrophic breach raised questions about Yahoo security and destabilized the company deal to sell its email service websites and mobile applications to Verizon Communications.
The malicious activity that was the subject of the user warnings revolved around the use of forged cookies strings of data which are used across the web and can sometimes allow people to access online accounts without their passwords.
Sending a bunch of preprogrammed IR macros to various boxes is an ancient inevitably doomed idea and nearly universal or resilient enough to support search and discovery as powerful as demos.
brilliant but there are a bunch of issues that come along for the ride Vizio just got smacked by the FTC for detecting what was displayed on its TVs and collecting data without being transparent enough with customers.
a tall order and Caavo has a long way to go and a lot of conversations to have with obstinate protective players like cable companies who have been very slow to integrate with streaming services and devices.
The FCC rules have long drawn fire from telecom industry critics for imposing tougher privacy standards on ISPs like AT T and Verizon than on online companies like Google and Facebook which also have access to a great deal of user data.
In an open letter to Darrell Issa and Jerry Nadler the chair and ranking member of House IP subcommittee the nonprofit argues that it can help more users access PACER filings which currently cost a fee to download.
tech sector is huge in terms of going on to the future of the country so they get drawn in sometimes somewhat reluctantly to He said that in contrast with Microsoft which spent years ignoring Facebook was quickly in because of the nature of their product and explosive uptake they.
The FCC rules have long drawn fire from telecom industry critics for imposing tougher privacy standards on ISPs like AT T and Verizon than on online companies like Google and Facebook which also have access to a great deal of user data.
In an open letter to Darrell Issa and Jerry Nadler the chair and ranking member of House IP subcommittee the nonprofit argues that it can help more users access PACER filings which currently cost a fee to download.
tech sector is huge in terms of going on to the future of the country so they get drawn in sometimes somewhat reluctantly to He said that in contrast with Microsoft which spent years ignoring Facebook was quickly in because of the nature of their product and explosive uptake they.
Huawei Technologies the smartphone maker is preparing to enter the competitive world of digital assistants with its own service people familiar with the matter said.
Huawei assistant would communicate in Chinese languages and target domestic users while the company will continue to work with Google and Amazon outside China one of the other people said.
Building its own answer to Siri may help Huawei devices stand out in a crowded Chinese market where many Google services that come with the dominant Android smartphone operating system are blocked.
Ultimately journalists who attended the roadshow told CJR they were heartened by novel examples of audience engagement and recent efforts to combat They were happy to start a relationship with Facebook where none previously existed many were grateful to make personal connections within the ironically might seem faceless on occasion.
At the Dallas roadshow Facebook led presentations on and shared case studies of how local newsrooms have used the platform then took questions that touched on everything from the News Feed and Instant Articles to subsidiary products including Instagram and Crowdtangle a social listening tool.
One journalist asked that Instagram allow users to share links an important way to drive traffic from the platform to local news sites and many reporters around the room nodded in agreement says Schmitt.
Ultimately journalists who attended the roadshow told CJR they were heartened by novel examples of audience engagement and recent efforts to combat They were happy to start a relationship with Facebook where none previously existed many were grateful to make personal connections within the ironically might seem faceless on occasion.
At the Dallas roadshow Facebook led presentations on and shared case studies of how local newsrooms have used the platform then took questions that touched on everything from the News Feed and Instant Articles to subsidiary products including Instagram and Crowdtangle a social listening tool.
One journalist asked that Instagram allow users to share links an important way to drive traffic from the platform to local news sites and many reporters around the room nodded in agreement says Schmitt.
Facebook hopes employers and prospective employees will then use Messenger to communicate throughout the courting process.
Facebook is necessarily the first place you think of when looking for a new job but it could certainly offer some competition to LinkedIn and has a much larger user base.
The new feature will start to roll out beginning Wednesday but only in the and Canada.
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