by Alpha | Jan 11, 2018 | Pre-Market
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9. NVAX:$NVAX PT raised to $2.50 at Ladenburg
10. COGT:$COGT the good ol’ morning after #ThankYouComeAgain
12. DST:$SSNC makes it official, $5.4B All Cash Deal for $DST !
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1. Wal-Mart Raises U.S. Hourly Wage to $11 in Wake of Tax Overhaul
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market.
2. Amazon price target raised to $1,425 ahead of Q4 earnings at Stifel
Stifel analyst Scott Devitt previewed Amazon’s Q4 earnings report, expected in early February, telling investors he expects healthy e-commerce holiday sales, continued momentum in Prime adoption and continued strength in AWS. Beyond the quarter, he sees Amazon as well positioned for 2018 and 2019 given strength in e-commerce, cloud, smart speakers and voice), international growth and new product categories like grocery. Devitt raised his price target on Amazon shares to $1,425 from $1,313 and keeps a Buy rating on the stock.
3. Walmart is raising wages and issuing bonuses after tax reform
The company’s CEO said it’s a move to try and stay competitive.
4. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: DAL, DST, KBH, WM, MAR, F, CVX & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
5. BlackRock’s Hambro Sees Commodities Bull Run in 2018
Evy Hambro, who manages BlackRock Inc.’s World Mining Fund, says commodities will enjoy a bull run in 2018 based on synchronous global growth and under-investment in new supply. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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When WhatsApp added encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago the mobile messaging giant significantly raised the bar for the privacy of digital communications worldwide.
At the Real World Crypto security conference Wednesday in Zurich Switzerland a group of researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany plan to describe a series of flaws in encrypted messaging apps including WhatsApp Signal and Threema.
WhatsApp convenient group messaging system in combination with its encryption promises have made it a popular tool for whisper networks of grassroots organizing around sensitive or dangerous topics.
The company announced today that it will not move forward with a planned YouTube Red movie that Paul was supposed to star in at this time as the project is on hold.
light of recent events we have decided to remove Logan channels from Google Preferred a YouTube representative said.
Paul was the subject of backlash after he uploaded a video on during a trip to Japan in which he discovered and filmed the body of man who appeared to have recently committed suicide.
ET Electronics spent more on capital expenditures last year than any other publicly traded company highlighting in dramatic fashion how technology and telecommunications firms are driving an uptick in manufacturing investment.
The South Korean tech giant spent billion in nearly doubling its investment in new or existing facilities making semiconductors displays and other products according to S P Global Market Intelligence estimates that put Samsung atop the global ranking for the first time.
Even at the highest regulated electricity tariff miners can profit from bitcoin as long as worth more than BNEF analysts including Sophie Lu wrote in a report Wednesday.
Digital currency transactions require computer networks with the industry now using as much power as million households according to Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index.
While mining is profitable at the highest regulated electricity price of per in China many companies can take advantage of overcapacity in the sector to negotiate rates as low as Lu wrote.
The social network is testing a new section inside its app called In a feed made up entirely of local news events and announcements.
All of this plays into the broader efforts to cleanse the service of false information local publishers to appear inside this new section of the app should theoretically help keep fake news to a minimum.
And users will eventually be able to follow local cities that they currently live in a childhood hometown for example according to a company spokesperson.
ET Electronics spent more on capital expenditures last year than any other publicly traded company highlighting in dramatic fashion how technology and telecommunications firms are driving an uptick in manufacturing investment.
The South Korean tech giant spent billion in nearly doubling its investment in new or existing facilities making semiconductors displays and other products according to S P Global Market Intelligence estimates that put Samsung atop the global ranking for the first time.
are great concerns regarding virtual currencies and the justice ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through exchanges Park told a news conference according to the press office.
Once a bill is drafted legislation for an outright ban of virtual coin trading will require a majority vote of the total members of the National Assembly a process that could take months or even years.
South Korean financial authorities had previously said they are inspecting six local banks that offer virtual currency accounts to institutions amid concerns the increasing use of such assets could lead to a surge in crime.
The suit accuses Dragon Box of facilitating piracy by making it easy for customers to access illegal streams of movies and TV shows.
The same studios filed a similar complaint in October against TickBox another device that enables users to watch streaming content.
On his LinkedIn page Christoforo advertises the Dragon Box device up a whole new world of possibilities where free movies and TV channels online are.
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by Alpha | Jan 10, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. Is the VIX Being Gamed? A Sudden Swoon Has Traders Talking Again
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ET SHENZHEN Technologies may be considered the bogeyman of the global telecom equipment industry in some Washington circles but in Mountain View a hero.
where Union Wireless a carrier that provides telephone and wireless service to customers in five Western states is singing its praises.
Four years ago Union turned to Huawei after its previous equipment vendor fell behind schedule on a critical network upgrade says Brian Woody customer relations chief.
ET SHENZHEN Technologies may be considered the bogeyman of the global telecom equipment industry in some Washington circles but in Mountain View a hero.
where Union Wireless a carrier that provides telephone and wireless service to customers in five Western states is singing its praises.
Four years ago Union turned to Huawei after its previous equipment vendor fell behind schedule on a critical network upgrade says Brian Woody customer relations chief.
According to Microsoft Intel Haswell processors and older will be impacted the most by a series of firmware updates designed to protect against the Spectre CPU security flaw.
is why you want to be careful to evaluate the risk of untrusted code for each Windows Server instance and balance the security versus performance tradeoff for your environment says Myerson.
For Meltdown and Spectre variant Microsoft has isolated kernel and user mode page tables and hardened Edge and Internet Explorer to protect against JavaScript exploits.
AT T walked away from a deal to sell the Huawei smartphone the Mate to customers in the United States just before the partnership was set to be unveiled two people familiar with the plans said on Tuesday speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were not public.
But last month a group of lawmakers wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing misgivings about a potential deal between Huawei and an unnamed American telecommunications company to sell its consumer products in the United States.
The Justice Department in November sued to block the billion bid for Time Warner a merger that would create a media and telecommunications behemoth with the ability to reach consumers through a wide variety of means.
ET new offensive against social media is showing signs of backfiring.
Authorities in Tehran have ratcheted up their policing of the internet in the past week and a half part of an attempt to stamp out the most protests in Iran since.
But the crackdown is driving millions of Iranians to tech tools that can help them.
AT T walked away from a deal to sell the Huawei smartphone the Mate to customers in the United States just before the partnership was set to be unveiled two people familiar with the plans said on Tuesday speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were not public.
But last month a group of lawmakers wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing misgivings about a potential deal between Huawei and an unnamed American telecommunications company to sell its consumer products in the United States.
The Justice Department in November sued to block the billion bid for Time Warner a merger that would create a media and telecommunications behemoth with the ability to reach consumers through a wide variety of means.
In the summer of former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision he signed a deal with a bank consortium that included an option for its partner to buy billion units of its currency for less than a penny.
In the latest twist in the legal battle Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses of signing the deal in bad faith and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing product.
Big banks are increasingly betting that blockchain software which underpins bitcoin and creates an immutable record of transactions will provide a cheaper and faster alternative to legacy money transfer systems.
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NASHVILLE Jan Reuters President Donald Trump was expected on Monday to sign an executive order to make it easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land and buildings part of a push to expand internet in rural America.
We need it for our tractors we need it for our schools we need it for our businesses a White House official told reporters ahead of speech at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The White House described the moves as an incremental step to help spur private development while the administration figures out what it can do to help with funding something that could become part of plan to invest in infrastructure.
by Alpha | Jan 9, 2018 | Pre-Market
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5. ANTH:$ANTH New Form 4 for Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From our Stock News Alerts App
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1. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: TGT, AMZN, UAA, PYPL & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
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“CS nice comments on $INCY $SRPT”
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As such the Direxion application points out that the funds should not be expected to track the performance of the target benchmark for any period longer than one business day.
Watchers of the growing space figured it was only a matter of time before bitcoin ETF applications accelerated after the CME and Cboe greenlighted futures trading.
This is part of the reason why I say digital currency is here to stay said Sheila Warren the World Economic Forum head of blockchain which is the technology that powers cryptocurrencies.
exchange rate probably undercut the earnings by to billion won said Greg Roh an analyst at HMC Investment Securities special bonuses as well as a lot of marketing expenses for smartphones and televisions in the fourth quarter we can expect a steep rise in the operating profit to trillion.
shares hit record highs in before sliding in November after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock citing an expected peak in the memory chips cycle and a slowdown in smartphones.
The de facto chief Jay Lee has been fighting allegations of corruption in court appealing a sentence given in August when he was convicted of bribing a presidential confidante to get greater control of the company.
What was once a measure of verifying whether a Twitter user of public interest was actually who they claimed to be became a sort of status symbol whereby some people including white nationalists were bestowed the honor and others.
However a few accounts have been given blue checkmarks in the last few weeks Michael Wolff author of the new Trump book Fire and Fury and Mick Mulvaney the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are among them.
One of my editors at Fast Company Anjali Khosla was also verified last week after applying a few months ago.
by Alpha | Jan 8, 2018 | Pre-Market
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4. OTIV:$OTIV *DJ OTI Announces Cryptocurrency Acceptance as a Legitimate Source of Purchase Payment
8. MYSZ:$MYSZ looks like early continuation from fri move in Tel Aviv –
12. WATT:$WATT + Energous Unveils Industry-First Wireless Charging 2.0 Integrated Circuit Solutions at CES 2018
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1. Five Prime Therapeutics Earns IND Milestone Payment Under Immune Checkpoint Pathways Discovery Collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Announces that BMS has Extended the Research Term of this Collaboration for a Second Time
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc . (Nasdaq: FPRX ), a biotechnology company discovering and developing innovative immuno-oncology protein therapeutics, today announced that it has achieved a milestone for the first Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) (NYSE: BMY ) for a therapeutic candidate under the immune checkpoint pathway discovery collaboration between the companies. The first clinical candidate from the collaboration is a fully-human monoclonal antibody targeting TIM-3 (T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-3), an immune checkpoint receptor that is known to limit the duration and magnitude of T-cell responses 1 . This first IND application triggers a $5 million milestone payment to Five Prime.
2. Acorda Announces 2017 AMPYRA Net Sales and Provides 2018 Financial Guidance at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
AMPYRA 4Q 2017 Net Sales of $166 million ; 2017 Net Sales of $542 million (unaudited) 2017 year-end cash and cash equivalents approximately $300 million (unaudited) AMPYRA 2018 net sales guidance of $330-$350 million Combined 2018 RD and SGA non-GAAP operating expense guidance of $270-$290 million INBRIJA™ (levodopa inhalation powder) NDA resubmitted in December 2017 ; initial FDA response expected in February 2018 Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOR ) reported AMPYRA ® (dalfampridine) Extended Release Tablets, 10 mg unaudited net sales for the fourth quarter of 2017 of $166 million . Unaudited 2017 full-year net sales were $542 million , an increase of approximately 10% from 2016. Final results are subject to completion of the Company’s year-end audit. “In response to the challenges we faced in 2017, we streamlined Acorda to focus on our most important and valuable initiatives. Based on the Company’s proven track record of commercial success in the specialty neurology
3. A new Alzheimer’s drug, once worth billions, is headed for the trash
Axovant Sciences will no longer study intepirdine after finding the drug to be useless against dementia with Lewy bodies.
4. Goldman, Citi Are Said to Be in Lead for Top Roles in Aramco IPO
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is set to appoint Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to help manage its initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said, as the state-owned crude producer pushes ahead with what could be the world’s largest share sale.
5. Meg Tirrell on Twitter
“Another crop of new year price increases, per Jefferies $JAZZ $SHPG $VRX”
6. Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Significantly Improved Recurrence-Free Survival Compared to Placebo as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Stage 3 Resected High-Risk Melanoma (EORTC1325/KEYNOTE-054)
Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer , today announced that the phase 3 EORTC1325/KEYNOTE-054 trial investigating KEYTRUDA® , Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as monotherapy for surgically resected high-risk melanoma,
7. Revance Announces Interim Phase 2a Results for RT002 in Treating Plantar Fasciitis
Revance Therapeutics, Inc. , a biotechnology company developing neuromodulators for use in treating aesthetic and underserved therapeutic conditions, today announced interim 8-week Phase 2a results for its next-generation neuromodulator DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection in treating plantar fasciitis,
8. Amicus Therapeutics Provides Full-Year 2018 Strategic Outlook and Financial Guidance
310+ People with Fabry Disease Treated with Reimbursed Galafold® at YE17
9. ‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown
It was late November and former Intel Corp. engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany, when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors.
10. Intel CEO’s Stock Sale Called Unusual by Private Securities Specialists
Brian Krzanich sold shares and exercised stock options worth $39 million while Intel was handling concerns about security flaws in its chips, a highly unusual move that risked attracting regulatory scrutiny, according to lawyers and analysts.
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As far as I know the main net been launched yet Roy van Kaathoven a coder simply interested in the project and not from Tron tells us.
The proposed solution by a number of projects and Tron appears to be no different is the employment of various decentralized technologies such as IPFS and blockchain tech to create distributed data storage.
It is unclear whether Tron follows the exact same approach but the whitepaper does seem to suggest so mentioning hash tags and stating their first phase is the implementation of IPFS to be followed by a blockchain.
ET The iPhone has made Apple and Wall Street hundreds of billions of dollars.
Now some big shareholders are asking at what cost in an unusual campaign to make the company more socially responsible.
A leading activist investor and a pension fund are saying the smartphone maker needs to respond to what some see as a growing crisis of youth phone addiction.
Two days earlier in their lab at Graz University of Technology Moritz Lipp Daniel Gruss and Michael Schwarz had determined to tease out an idea that had nagged at them for weeks a loose thread in the safeguards underpinning how processors defend the most sensitive memory of billions of computers.
His code designed to steal information from the deepest most protected part of a computer operating system known as the kernel no longer spat out random characters but what appeared to be real data siphoned from the sensitive guts of his machine snippets from his web browsing history text from private email conversations.
In fact the bizarre confluence of so many disparate researchers making the same discovery of vulnerabilities raises the question of who else might have found the attacks before who might have secretly used them for spying potentially for years before this week revelations and the flood of software fixes from practically every major tech firm that have rushed to contain the threat.
official launch builds on the platform announcement made late last year with added additional specifications confirmation of the feature set and a series of new products based on Intel with Radeon Graphics are set to be announced this week at CES from Dell HP and Intel own NUC.
Intel is buying the graphics processor from AMD much like any other silicon purchase and as a result involvement is strictly business.
Y SoCs up to for portable fanless designs and U SoCs around for sleek lifestyle products H CPUs around offering more cores for larger enthusiast notebooks G CPUs with additional up to S Desktop processors X A special segment for desktops based on server processors.
Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
Facebook was getting blasted for the spread of fake news contributing to filter bubbles and doing too little to help publishers make money on the platform.
learned a great deal from our partners over the past year and together we made significant strides in areas like increasing monetization and support for subscriptions improving brand recognition for publishers and news literacy and investing in training programs and tools like data insights.
I think Facebook executives get enough credit for the ways they enable publishers to communicate with audiences and monetize and they stand there and take full blast from the entire industry said Nicholas Carlson chief content officer of Business Insider.
The fastest previous Intel NUC machine was the model that featured a gen Skylake CPU and Iris Pro graphics.
From what Intel has claimed Core CPUs with the version of the custom Radeon RX Vega M will reach up to GeForce GTX levels of gaming performance.
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Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
Finally and this is the clincher for me if you were Satoshi probably be paranoid to the point of believing that no matter the extremes you went to remain hidden at a large enough value of bitcoin holdings powerful people would eventually dox you.
As Warren Buffett says is not greed that drives the world but ok to celebrate when the year old ass hole day trader who pumped and dumped his way to riches and bought a lambo gets rekt and margin called to oblivion in a flash crash.
The new funds most excited about are Libertus Capital Pamir Gelenbe Nick Tomaino Placeholder VC Chris Burniske Joel Monegro and BlockTower Ari Paul.
It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going direct to Heaven we were all going direct the other way in short the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This post is written with the intention of being neutral and has been reviewed by supporters from both sides who believe it is a reasonably fair representation of the arguments from each camp.
I ran a poll on my twitter trying to find out what aspects of Bitcoin were most appealing only had options and unsurprisingly of people cared about censorship resistance in that they would have to run their own node and validate transactions.
by Alpha | Nov 27, 2017 | Pre-Market
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2. CIEN:$CIEN upgraded to Buy from Neutral at BofA/Merrill through $21 has room to $24 use 20 as a STOP
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4. SQ:$SQ SQUARE downgraded to SELL at BTIG with a $30 tgt Bitcoin Trial Makes It Hip to Be SQ, But Stock’s Rally Overdone
7. MU:$MU – down pre mkt but at 16 year resistance lvl I’m not shocked.
11. NXTD:$NXTD cryptopayment and Blockchain still unfound
15. BMRN:$BMRN BioMarin Sells Second Priority Review Voucher for $125 Million
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1. AT&T struggles to blame Trump for blocking merger
Conspiracy theories are raging that President Trump played a role in blocking AT&T’s merger with Time Warner — but even if they’re true, it might not matter to a judge. That’s according to lega…
2. DealBook Briefing: Will Time Inc. Get Smaller Under New Ownership?
Meredith finally struck a deal to buy the embattled publisher, but the media world wants to know whether it will keep titles like Time and Fortune.
3. OPEC Battle With U.S. for Oil Supremacy Nears Day of Reckoning
The clash between OPEC and America’s oil industry is reaching a day of reckoning.
4. With Novartis closing in, Regeneron scraps Eylea combo drug in a major setback
Just a few weeks after Novartis $NVS spelled out exactly why it believes RTH258 can carve out a blockbuster chunk of Regeneron’s AMD market for Eylea, its big rival says that a next-gen combo won’t be riding to their rescue. Early Monday Regeneron $REGN said both Phase II studies of
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Questions over the FBI handling of Fancy Bear broad hacking sweep date to March when agents arrived unannounced at Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn to warn her campaign about a surge of rogue emails.
The expectation that the government is going to protect everyone and go back to everyone is false said Nicholas Eftimiades a retired senior technical officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who teaches homeland security at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg and was himself among the targets.
Rob Butch Bracknell a military veteran who works as a NATO lawyer in Norfolk Virginia said an FBI agent visited him about a year ago to examine his emails and warn him that a foreign actor was trying to break into his account.
Please share with the rest of us what else you find on a free internet will always be filled with competing narratives but reproducible data analyses can establish a ground truth and help cut through all of that.
As it turns out the next two highest comments on the list Chairman Tom and unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed have already been picked out from previous reporting as possible astroturf as well.
² Full disclosure I was a summer law clerk for Commissioner Clyburn in and though I greatly admire her recent work championing net neutrality the opinions and POV in this post are my own.
Please share with the rest of us what else you find on a free internet will always be filled with competing narratives but reproducible data analyses can establish a ground truth and help cut through all of that.
As it turns out the next two highest comments on the list Chairman Tom and unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed have already been picked out from previous reporting as possible astroturf as well.
² Full disclosure I was a summer law clerk for Commissioner Clyburn in and though I greatly admire her recent work championing net neutrality the opinions and POV in this post are my own.
Max Ventilla a Google executive who left the search giant to launch AltSchool in wooed parents with his vision to bring traditional models of elementary education into the digital age.
Many parents remembered their surprise when in the spring of Ventilla announced onstage at South by Southwest that the startup would begin soliciting partners specifically other private schools interested in adopting the AltSchool model and licensing its software.
A parent told Business Insider that she figured the startup which has poached talent from Google Uber Airbnb and Zynga would provide technology as a supplement to human instruction.
chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to eliminate even the most basic net neutrality protections including the ban on blocking replacing them with a regime enforced by the Federal Trade Commission.
From what we know so far rationale for eliminating the rules is that cable and phone companies despite years of healthy profit need to earn even more money than they already do that is that the current rates of return do not yield adequate investment incentives.
Because he is killing net neutrality outright not merely weakening it he will have to explain to a court not just the shift from but also his reasoning for destroying the basic bans on blocking and throttling which have been in effect since and have been relied on extensively by the entire internet ecosystem.
Questions over the FBI handling of Fancy Bear broad hacking sweep date to March when agents arrived unannounced at Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn to warn her campaign about a surge of rogue emails.
The expectation that the government is going to protect everyone and go back to everyone is false said Nicholas Eftimiades a retired senior technical officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who teaches homeland security at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg and was himself among the targets.
Rob Butch Bracknell a military veteran who works as a NATO lawyer in Norfolk Virginia said an FBI agent visited him about a year ago to examine his emails and warn him that a foreign actor was trying to break into his account.
Max Ventilla a Google executive who left the search giant to launch AltSchool in wooed parents with his vision to bring traditional models of elementary education into the digital age.
Many parents remembered their surprise when in the spring of Ventilla announced onstage at South by Southwest that the startup would begin soliciting partners specifically other private schools interested in adopting the AltSchool model and licensing its software.
A parent told Business Insider that she figured the startup which has poached talent from Google Uber Airbnb and Zynga would provide technology as a supplement to human instruction.
On both Thanksgiving and Black Friday the gap between mobile traffic and revenue is closing said Mickey Mericle VP of marketing and customer insights at Adobe.
Black Friday and the subsequent pool of days that has spread around it are significant for consumers because they get a chance to buy items at a deep discount to their normal prices.
They are significant for online retailers because they set the pace and are a bellwether for the rest of November and December traditionally the most important time of the year for their businesses to rack up holiday sales.
Credit Illustration by Andrew Rae For decades after its Communist revolution in China was known as kingdom of The Flying Pigeons that swarmed the streets were not simply a cheap mode of transportation.
All it takes is a smartphone to find the nearest bike via GPS to scan its QR code and open its smartlocks and to pay a minuscule fee usually cents or less per ride through a app.
Continue reading the main story Cities around the world have embraced the sharing economy Seoul Amsterdam Milan but China is the first country to frame it as a While innovation be conjured on demand Beijing has financed incubators offered tax incentives formed think tanks and kept foreign competitors away.
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4. DRYS:Amusing that IB has 300K shares of $DRYS but none of the other shippers du jour.
6. ES:$ES Dailies overnights ranging, correcting 15/60m OB with 3am algo hour dip 2579.50 gets 15m mid range; full repair…
12. DCIX:$DCIX 9 psych
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1. General Electric Chairman and CEO John Flannery discloses purchase of 60,000 shares
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2. Comcast Approached 21st Century Fox Over Acquisition Interest
Comcast Corp has approached 21st Century Fox and expressed in interest in an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter. It is unclear whether Comcast is interested in buying all or part of Fox.
3. Tesla shares pop after trucker JB Hunt reserves ‘multiple’ Tesla Semi tractor trailers
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4. David Undercoffler on Twitter
“Roadster deposits begin today. $50k. Base model starts at $200k total. First 1000 models will be Founder’s Series and are $250k paid entirely upfront.”
5. Acorda Announces Royalty Monetization Transactions for $53 Million
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) announced a $40 million royalty monetization with HealthCare Royalty Partners (HCR) and a $13 million royalty
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Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates get to know how your peers think and learn new skills.
Our servers never see your files or edits which maximizes your privacy and minimizes latency between you and your collaborators regardless of your proximity to our data centers.
As we continue along our roadmap and take Teletype beyond beta we hope to see community contributors build on and extend it to other editors.
ET Digital publisher BuzzFeed is on track to miss its revenue target this year by a significant amount the latest sign that troubles in the business are making it tough for upstarts to live up to lofty expectations.
BuzzFeed one of several outfits that have grown quickly in recent years had been targeting revenue of around million in but is expected to fall short of that figure by about to people familiar with the matter said.
BuzzFeed said in a statement that it would still.
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A triangular foil to circular new headquarters six miles shape is drawn from the building block of computer graphics the glassy facade rises up over the San Tomas Expressway like the bow of a starship coming into port.
When I finally locate Huang he is wearing his signature leather moto jacket and nibbling on breaded chicken strips from a cup as he strides across the sprawling cafeteria with at least two dozen employees and their families in tow.
summoned by a push notification and then for to minutes Rogowsky bellows trivia questions was Frederic Chopin born of these celebrities has Sean Penn never married enthusiastically at you from your screen.
Winners were awarded sweepstakes tickets and later Microsoft Points instead of cash and players were represented by Xbox Live avatars all crammed inside an animated television studio that looked like Who Wants to Be A Millionaire meets Hollywood Squares via Reboot.
The difference between these earlier versions of interactive TV and HQ Trivia boils down to the video broadcast quality which is high the cash money prizes which are plentiful and Scott.
This includes giving bot builders the ability to understand what works to increase customer conversions improve the accuracy and create a better user experience.
The system today integrates with any voice or text messaging platform Google says including Facebook Kik Viber Slack WhatsApp WeChat Alexa Cortana Allo Line Skype Twitter and more.
Instead of combing through logs we rely on its capability to help prioritize required optimizations saving precious time that we need to focus on building new features Viber added.
And while unclear what final policy will look like the introduction of offline behavior to the Twitter rules adds an unpredictable new dimension to its efforts.
Kessler a white supremacist who organized the United the Right rally in Charlottesville in August kicked off the latest controversy over rules when his account was verified last week.
agents have been following our verification policy correctly CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted on we realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be Twitter stopped verifying new accounts and said it would develop a new program.
AdBasis has published a note on its site indicating that the deal closed on November and that its team will continue to work on digital creative testing and optimization technology at Airbnb.
AdBasis was by Jason Puckett and Joe DiVita in Chicago and not clear how many people worked there or how many will join Airbnb.
Its tools include the ability to track revenue and how changes to an content bidding targeting and other parameters impact its performance.
