by Alpha | Nov 13, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. BABA:$BABA +1% pre-market, set to open near record, after ppl snagged smartphones, TVs & a $3 million Aston Martin racing yacht on Singles Day.
2. JD:39% increase in net revenues, 51% increase in gross profits $JD
8. CMG:$CMG They’re terrible and I almost died’: Supergirl star Jeremy Jordan hospitalized after eating Chipot…
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1. Biotech portfolio updates – Esperion, Abeona , Sage and adding two more GTx names | Open Reading Frame
It has been a hectic 5 months here at Pontifax (10 new investments, some yet to be announced) so unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of time to publish new posts. Going forward, I will try to make posts more concise so I’ll be able to publish stuff also during busy periods.Today, I will focus on what I consider to be the three winners in the portfolio in 2017 so far, not only from a stock performance but also from a strategic development perspective. All three will have important readouts in the coming 6 months.
2. Meg Tirrell on Twitter
“Forget $PFE + $BMY, BMO’s Alex Arfaei says. Suggests $PFE should buy $BIIB”
3. Tyson Foods tops profit estimates as low-cost feed provides boost
U.S. meat processor Tyson Foods Inc’s (TSN.N) quarterly earnings and revenue topped analysts’ forecasts, as its chicken and beef businesses benefited from strong demand as well as lower costs to buy animal feed.
4. Charley Grant on Twitter
“$GE projects negative FCF conversion in 2017 for its power business”
5. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GE, TSN, QCOM, AVGO, UPS, FDX & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
6. General Electric slashes its divided by 50%
General Electric cuts its dividend 50% to $0.12 a share.
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It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
In each of these countries Facebook has become an accidental political juggernaut providing public evidence used by authoritarian governments to imprison liberals and journalists for expressing dissent and amplifying the reach of racist demagogues whose dangerous and false diatribes happen to collect a lot of rabid clicks.
The roots of ethnic hatreds in Myanmar run deep but a recent flurry of fake news posts including doctored photos of Rohingya supposedly burning their own homes or attacking Burmese Buddhists has stoked popular support or at least tolerance for the hardline approach.
are going to need to build up their capacity to get further into the game talking with all the stakeholders from civil society business and government to ensure they know the political and social context and are prepared to respond in a substantive rights respecting He adds entrust their private and public lives to this platform so decisions need to have customer and communications need to reflect.
In each of these countries Facebook has become an accidental political juggernaut providing public evidence used by authoritarian governments to imprison liberals and journalists for expressing dissent and amplifying the reach of racist demagogues whose dangerous and false diatribes happen to collect a lot of rabid clicks.
The roots of ethnic hatreds in Myanmar run deep but a recent flurry of fake news posts including doctored photos of Rohingya supposedly burning their own homes or attacking Burmese Buddhists has stoked popular support or at least tolerance for the hardline approach.
are going to need to build up their capacity to get further into the game talking with all the stakeholders from civil society business and government to ensure they know the political and social context and are prepared to respond in a substantive rights respecting He adds entrust their private and public lives to this platform so decisions need to have customer and communications need to reflect.
As a reporter who has covered technology for more than two decades I am familiar with the usual forms of internet harassment gangs that bring down a website haters who post your home address online troll armies that hurl insults on a social network.
At its worst it veers into the territory of what researcher Susan Benesch calls dangerous speech the type of propaganda that has historically been used in places like Rwanda and Germany to convince people to commit violence.
Krebs tried to warn his local police that he was a likely swatting target but that stop them from dispatching a team to his house in after he had exposed a criminal underground forum selling Social Security numbers and credit reports.
It was a typically screed touching on George the end of the federal fiscal year on creation of bogus accounts on Facebook and Twitter and the phenomenon of American intelligence officers going to work for contractors who pay higher salaries.
The intelligence collection is often automated with malware implants computer code designed to find material of interest left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years sending files back to the.
operations the Shadow Brokers posted an appeal to President Trump Forget Your With the ease of a seasoned pundit they tossed around details about Stephen Bannon the now departed adviser the Freedom Caucus in Congress the the Alien and Sedition Acts and white privilege.
The specific security page mentions that Google is pushing out only the update to devices leaving OEMs to deal with the rest.
In the case of the video after breaking they find an improperly configured use a tool called sslstrip to bypass the HTTPS protections that are normally there on the login page.
Since these patches are the responsibility of the vendor Qualcomm Broadcom Nvidia etc and require coordination with Google and the OEM they can take longer to fix.
Alibaba has set another Day record after the giant sold over billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.
In case that predominantly means its Taobao marketplace and Tmall brand store although it does offer sales via its international services and it ships worldwide.
The numbers also signal a return to growth for Day sales an important area that investors will look at and Alibaba needs to show progress on.
Bloomberg first reported on the agreement that was struck this weekend to bring to an end to the acrimony between former CEO and Uber Travis Kalanick and its major investor Benchmark.
would have happened sooner but the paranoia on both sides never let up said one source close to the situation who noted that an ultimatum to end the investment move by other board members and new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at a meeting yesterday finally broke the impasse.
Other Uber early employees would become millionaires many times over if they sell too so San Francisco real estate sales people will have Christmas in um December I guess.
by Alpha | Nov 9, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. VIX:Looks like $VIX may see a 10% gap up this morning. Will be interested to see if dip buyers step back into large caps and if vol gets sold.
5. GOOG:Are You Bullish Or Bearish On #Google? Start #Trading $GOOG With #Bitcoin! #XBT $XBT $BTC #BTCUSD #Cryptocurrency…
7. ES_F:~2000 contract buy order at 2575 — just below. That looks like a Fed support type order $ES_F S&P 500 futures
11. PRGO:Big numbers from $PRGO. Must confess I didn’t see that one coming.
12. GOLD:#Commodities #Traders Check the #Charts on $Gold $DJP & #Copper as they give Long Term Buy Signal >>…
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1. Sage Therapeutics Announces Brexanolone Achieves Primary Endpoints in Both Phase 3 Clinical Trials in Postpartum Depression | Sage Therapeutics, Inc.
The Investor Relations website contains information about Sage Therapeutics, Inc.’s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
2. Merck Receives FDA Approval of PREVYMIS™ (letermovir) for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Disease in Adult Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Patients | Merck Newsroom Home
KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVYMIS™ (letermovir) once-daily tablets for oral use and injection for intravenous infusion.
3. Brad Loncar on Twitter
“Now that Astra has reported, here’s a snapshot of the PARP race. $AZN $CLVS $TSRO”
4. Kohls is getting whacked after missing earnings
Kohl’s said recent hurricanes led to store closures in the affected areas, which put a damper on the company’s sales.
5. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Five Prime Present Phase 1a/1b Data Evaluating Cabiralizumab (anti-CSF-1 receptor antibody) with Opdivo (nivolumab) in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors (NASDAQ:FPRX)
6. Macy’s earnings top estimates, shares climb
Macy’s CEO has said the retailer “[isn’t] ready to declare when we will get back to positive” same-store sales.
7. Sage Therapeutics drug reduces postpartum depression in two late-stage clinical trials
Sage Therapeutics reported positive results Thursday from clinical trials of its lead drug brexanolone in women suffering from postpartum depression.
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Many Chinese businesses and the government use Facebook to reach an international Ng Han Press During time in the congressional hot seat last week Senator John Kennedy a Republican from Louisiana asked whether China had also run ads to affect the United States election.
CCTV leading television broadcaster spreads propaganda overseas as well as at Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Recently for example Xinhua posted an article titled IP protection system works well says a rebuke of a congressional investigation into Chinese trade policies that critics say encourage intellectual property theft.
A more anodyne post offered a attempt to find common ground between China and the United States pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the close relationship.
The upgrade was scheduled to take effect around November in an effort to increase the speed and cost of bitcoin transactions.
As fees rise for bitcoin transactions the developers said they hoped the digital currency community could find agreement on how to solve the problem.
For most of this year investors have had a negative view on bitcoin splits out of uncertainty over the digital currency future.
The Financial Times first reported on Wednesday citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the negotiations that T has been told by the Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN to get its acquisition of the media company.
was the groundwork for a potential lawsuit the merger which would marry a telecom titan that owns more than million smartphones and the Midtown parent entity of media and entertainment stalwarts including CNN HBO and Warner whose premium content offerings are ripe for its mobile devices.
But surely people involved in the deal and those watching it closely both figured the leak about the possible a newspaper owned by Trump ally Rupert Murdoch worth just be a negotiating tactic as the two sides go back and forth to clear the final regulatory hurdle.
The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision but what he said was so unnerving that a DNC official curled up in a ball on her conference room chair as if watching a horror movie.
A political outsider who got the job essentially at random the DNC literally called up sales desk Johnston was the lead investigator who determined the nature and scope of the hack one he described less as a stealth burglary than as a brazen ransacking.
well aware of the grim fact that it was his analysis that helped lay the groundwork that would eventually lead to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller to multiple probes on Capitol Hill and to the findings about intervention on Facebook and Twitter.
Many Chinese businesses and the government use Facebook to reach an international Ng Han Press During time in the congressional hot seat last week Senator John Kennedy a Republican from Louisiana asked whether China had also run ads to affect the United States election.
CCTV leading television broadcaster spreads propaganda overseas as well as at Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Recently for example Xinhua posted an article titled IP protection system works well says a rebuke of a congressional investigation into Chinese trade policies that critics say encourage intellectual property theft.
A more anodyne post offered a attempt to find common ground between China and the United States pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the close relationship.
Last SlideNext Slide Committee member Colin Garfield said the issue of broadband appealed to people who might not otherwise pay attention to local politics or vote in elections.
Fort Collins proposes building a based network that would cover the entire city and its growth management area which is land expected to be eventually be annexed.
In Fort Collins voters exempted the city from a state law that prohibits local governments from competing with private industry in providing telecommunications services including internet.
Earlier this summer Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which hackers claimed to have access to million user accounts and one was selling them online.
But nothing smooth about this hack said sources which became known in August when an infamous cybercriminal named claimed on a website that he was selling credentials of million Yahoo users from on the dark web for just over.
The confirmation of such an extensive hack is another blemish on the record of CEO Marissa Mayer a vaunted former Google exec who has presided over numerous declines in the business since she arrived four years ago.
A bitcoin transaction wastes as much electricity as it takes to power an American home for a week and legendary coder Bram Cohen wants to fix that.
After inventing torrenting in the early and briefly working on Steam for Valve Cohen had been at BitTorrent building a new protocol for live video transfer.
Cohen has teamed up with early bitcoin exchange COO Ryan Singer and raised a seed round for Chia to ramp up hiring.
Startups want more space to exhibit founders want more workshops TechCrunch editors want to deliver more programming and everyone wants more room to conduct meetings and get work done.
Making that possible will be signature Disrupt features such as CrunchMatch which connects founders and investors offers sidebar programming which brings speakers and attendees together for moderated discussions and our Showcase stage where exhibiting startups pitch their stories.
If the proud recipient of a past Crunchie Monkey hold onto it because it just became part of a finite supply and thus infinitely valuable you know like bitcoin.
by Alpha | Nov 1, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Paper: High Durable CR Rates in Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) Aggressive B-NHL Treated with the CD19-Directed CAR T Cell Product JCAR017 (TRANSCEND NHL 001): Defined Composition Allows for Dose-Finding and Definition of Pivotal Cohort
Jeremy S. Abramson, MD, MMSc 1 , Maria Lia Palomba, MD 2 , Leo I. Gordon, MD 3 , Matthew A. Lunning, DO 4 , Jon E. Arnason, MD 5 , Michael Wang, MD 6 , Andres Forero, MD 7 * , David G. Maloney, MD, PhD 8 , Tina Albertson, MD 9 , Jacob Garcia, MD 9 , Daniel Li, PhD 10 * , Benhuai Xie, PhD 10 * and Tanya Siddiqi, MD 11
2. bluebird bio Reports Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results and Recent Operational Progress
bluebird bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLUE), a clinical-stage company committed to developing potentially transformative gene therapies for severe genetic disea
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Short interest, stock short squeeze, short interest ratio & short selling data positions for NASDAQ, NYSE & AMEX stocks to find shorts in the stock market.
4. Kerrisdale Capital on Twitter
“We’ve bought 7% of a heavily shorted biotech that’s worth 4x+ higher than current trading levels. Releasing report tomorrow.”
5. With tweaks to gene therapy, Bluebird Bio makes progress in sickle cell
Bluebird’s uneven quest to develop a gene therapy for sickle cell advanced with new data showing tweaks to the process had improved results in two patients.
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7. Bluebird touts early signs that its new-and-improved sickle cell gene therapy is working
Bluebird bio $BLUE says they’ve been able to gather evidence to help prove that their new-and-improved approach to making a gene therapy for sickle cell disease has the potential to be a consistently effective once-and-done therapy. Following up on some disappointing evidence of inconsistency among the first small group of
8. Celgene Prices $3 Billion of Senior Unsecured Notes
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced the successful pricing of three series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount o
9. Wal-Mart triples online items, lowers prices as holiday season kicks in
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to boost sales and fend off rivals this holiday season by doubling down on incentives for shoppers who buy online and those who visit its stores.
10. uniQure Announces Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results and Recent Company Progress
LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE ), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2017 and highlighted recent progress across its business.
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Stories open our hearts to a new place which opens our minds which often leads to action.
Melinda Gates Cofounder of the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation.
algorithms Facebook sets up that prioritize and control shown in its powerful newsfeed are a lot more consequential than the ads said Zeynep Tufekci an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who closely follows social media and technology.
Investigators believe the Internet Research Agency a troll farm that has been linked to the Kremlin amassed enormous followings for various Facebook Pages that masqueraded as destinations for discussion about all sorts of issues from the Black Lives Matter movement to gun ownership.
But in meetings at Menlo Park headquarters and in Washington Facebook employees have expressed concern that such a move could have effects on other publications and content makers that are not spreading false or divisive news.
ET Democrats and Republicans alike opened a hearing Tuesday into attempt to spread disinformation on social media by lamenting the efforts during the presidential election stressing the need for Facebook Google and Twitter to prevent it from happening ever again.
For Dianne Feinstein the concern is that RT continued to participate in a key Google advertising program even after the intelligence community in a report issued this January flagged the news network as a propaganda arm of the Kremlin.
And Coons challenged Stretch to explain why exactly it had taken the company months to share detailed findings about Russian disinformation particularly given reports that President Barack Obama approached Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the problem well before that.
ET Apple departed from its traditional preview strategy for what it bills as its most important new iPhone in years prioritizing early access to the iPhone X for YouTube personalities and celebrities over most technology columnists who traditionally review its new products.
Apple provided the iPhone X to a small number of traditional testers for about a week while limiting most others The Wall Street Journal included to a single day with the device before reviews could be published.
The removal of that bit of hardware which stopped being a true button with the iPhone haptics give the sensation of movement where there is none meant Apple could drop the that dead space below the screen.
There is no other way to describe the black area at the top center of otherwise perfect screen than It cuts a near space out of the OLED display and grants the rights to incredibly eight different components including the earpiece speaker this is still a phone a microphone the front camera a proximity sensor hey your face is close to me.
However increasingly the playing field is leveling out as Samsung lowers the color saturation to a more vibe Portrait Mode become more common and upstarts like Google prove they can learn from everyone else and start off strong.
The flaws highlight a fundamental question that will be asked this week when internet companies testify in front of Congressional committees How responsible should Facebook Google and Twitter be for information others distribute through their systems.
A few days after President Donald Trump November election win Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said it was crazy to think fake news had swayed voters.
Facebook expects this manual work to help the company improve its algorithm over time so it can get smarter at automatically spotting patterns and figuring out what stories might be worth showing to human partners even before flagged by users.
The short answer is they and that drew questioning from a Congressional probe today into Facebook Twitter and Google being used to manipulate the presidential election.
do you deal with the problem of a legitimate and lawful but phony American shell corporation one that calls itself say for Puppies and Prosperity that has a drop box as its address and a million checkin its check book that using to spend to manipulate election outcomes.
This issue of advertiser identity and how deep tech platforms are required to investigate it could emerge as key to whether these companies are allowed to or whether the government will step in.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing entitled Content and Russian Disinformation Online Working with Tech to Find scheduled for Tuesday October at will now be in Room of the Hart Senate Office Building.
Sean Edgett Acting General Counsel Twitter San Francisco CA.
Individuals with disabilities who require an auxiliary aid or service should contact the committee clerk at at least three business days in advance of the hearing date.
by Alpha | Oct 30, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. BMY:$BMY upgraded to Buy from Hold at SunTrust. PT $75 from $55
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6. MRK:$MRK downgraded at Morgan Stanley Suntrust and Barclays this morning.
7. PCRX:$PCRX downgraded to Hold from Buy at Canaccord. PT $33
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13. NLNK:$NLNK NewLink Genetics Announces FDA Orphan-Drug Designation for Indoximod
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1. Novartis to buy France’s Advanced Accelerator for $3.9 bln
Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Monday offered to buy France’s Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) in a $3.9 billion cash deal to strengthen the oncology portfolio at the world’s biggest maker of prescription medicines. Basel-based Novartis’s offer of $41 per ordinary share and $82
2. Pain Therapeutics Announces Upcoming Meeting with FDA
Pre-NDA Meeting, November 14th for REMOXY™ ER
3. Advanced Accelerator Applications Announces $3.9 Billion All Cash Proposed Tender Offer by Novartis
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4. Marc Lehman on Twitter
“$ADMS – An Extremely High Conviction Investment Opportunity; Initiating at Outperform rating and $85 PRICE TARGET (Schimmer EVERCORE)”
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Facebook does not police the billions of posts and status updates that flow through the site worldwide each day relying instead on an oftentimes confusing set of and reports by users of direct threats that are then manually assessed and in some cases removed.
Facebook has no office in Myanmar but the company has worked with local partners to introduce a illustrated copy of its platform standards and will to its practices said a spokeswoman Clare Wareing in an emailed statement.
Human rights groups say the approach has allowed opinion facts and misinformation to mingle on Facebook clouding perceptions of truth and propaganda in a country where mobile technology has been widely adopted only in the past three years.
long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains like for the US for England or for Japan but that be the case any more after today.
be able to change locations just have to do it through the settings menu at the bottom of which willing to bet never noticed before because hidden in the corner on the desktop and requires you to scroll down on mobile I know it existed before today.
Google says making the change because one out of five searches related to location and the company feels critical to offer local information to provide the best results.
And for users it could mean the difference between truly helpful tools that provide time saving guidance through daily tasks and new art forms versus highly distracting and confusing experiences that create greater tensions and barriers within communities.
This line will be drawn in part from a pure ethical standpoint for instance one might argue that a work shared with just a handful of friends is harmless but one that is generally available and prompted for when people walk by is more of a public statement.
Already large data companies have created maps of cities and it is inevitable that more and more types of digital content will populate these databases for instance information from Wikipedia LinkedIn or Facebook about a person who lives at a particular address or an organization that is based there.
Facebook does not police the billions of posts and status updates that flow through the site worldwide each day relying instead on an oftentimes confusing set of and reports by users of direct threats that are then manually assessed and in some cases removed.
Facebook has no office in Myanmar but the company has worked with local partners to introduce a illustrated copy of its platform standards and will to its practices said a spokeswoman Clare Wareing in an emailed statement.
Human rights groups say the approach has allowed opinion facts and misinformation to mingle on Facebook clouding perceptions of truth and propaganda in a country where mobile technology has been widely adopted only in the past three years.
I found the display a noticeable and greatly pleasurable advance over my iPhone whether watching The Big Sick streaming a live football game or simply swiping through Instagram.
I can report that the photos I did snap look super sharp and when I took a series of shots looking out of the Backchannel office window at World Trade Center the telephoto lens captured clearer images than my previous phones.
a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where just there phone screen one that turns on simply by seeing you one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables.
Readers know that I have been and continue to be excited about the emerging opportunity and I believe it represents the next big wave of innovation in the tech sector upon which many important companies products and technologies will be built.
I have also written a lot about our portfolio companies that are working in this sector and have even mentioned the tokens that they are issuing.
And the celebrities and others who promote them on their social media channels in an effort to enrich themselves are behaving badly and possibly violating securities laws.
Over the last couple years we have been courted by you worked closely with you on promotion creation and even website features and have been assured by you that Patreon was a home for all types of creators including those that make adult content.
As journalist Violet Blue noted are barred from Facebook Instagram Paypal MailChimp Squarespace Square Kickstarter Chase Snapchat Add that Tumblr and other sites make us unfindable.
Patreon is saying that they believe sex workers unable to change or censor their work to fit new requirements should lose their income and that legal expressions of sexual creativity do not have a home on their platform.
But the story of Centra illustrates that beneath the signs of mainstream acceptance coin offerings still exist in a legal gray zone with few checks on the ambitions of young entrepreneurs.
undeniable that a celebrity endorsement brings a new audience into the world of crypto currencies said Peter Van Valkenburgh the director of research at Coin Center a nonprofit that advocates for Bitcoin and related technology.
According to a local news report Sharma ran a stop sign and had flushed face a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and watery and bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his.
In September our CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about the initial steps we were taking to help protect the integrity of elections both in the United States and around the world.
For political advertisers that do not proactively disclose themselves we are building machine learning tools that will help us find them and require them to verify their identity.
And we will continue to work with our industry partners lawmakers and our entire community to better ensure transparency and accountability in our advertising products.
But the story of Centra illustrates that beneath the signs of mainstream acceptance coin offerings still exist in a legal gray zone with few checks on the ambitions of young entrepreneurs.
undeniable that a celebrity endorsement brings a new audience into the world of crypto currencies said Peter Van Valkenburgh the director of research at Coin Center a nonprofit that advocates for Bitcoin and related technology.
According to a local news report Sharma ran a stop sign and had flushed face a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and watery and bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his.
by Alpha | Oct 23, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. CELG:$CELG downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at Piper. PT $133 from $145
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3. KMB:#BREAKING: Kimberly-Clark $KMB Q3 Revenue, $4.64B vs. $4.66B expected
5. MNKD:$MNKD *DJ MannKind Restructures Near-Term Debt Obligations
8. GM:Been waiting all weekend to post this. Great story by @DavidWelchBN, even if it could use some more dino art. $GM…
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1. Ill-Timed Uber Investment Roils a Giant Saudi Fund
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Public Investment Fund is poised to become one of the world’s biggest investors. But the PIF, as it is known, is off to a rocky start: After struggling to calculate its own value, it is mired in conflict over disappointing investments, including in Uber.
2. Agenus creates New Cell Therapy subsidiary named AgenTus Therapeutics
Agenus Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN), an immuno-oncology (I-O) company with a pipeline of immune checkpoint antibodies and cancer vaccines, today announced the launch of a subsidiary company for its cell…
3. Enanta Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 1 a/b Clinical Results for its Lead FXR Agonist, EDP-305
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTA), a chemistry-driven biotechnology company dedicated to creating small molecule drugs for viral infections a
4. Hartford to Acquire Aetna Group Life, Disability Business
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has agreed to pay $1.45 billion to health insurer Aetna Inc. for a unit that provides life-, disability-income and other insurance products to employers’ benefits programs in the U.S.
5. Prince Alwaleed says bitcoin will implode: ‘Enron in the making’
Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told CNBC on Monday that bitcoin will implode one day.
6. Eiger Announces Positive Phase 2 Interim 24-Week Data with Pegylated Interferon Lambda in Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) Infection at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Meeting
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., (NASDAQ: EIGR) today announced…
7. Evoke Pharma Announces Positive Topline Results from Comparative Exposure Pharmacokinetic Study for Gimoti™
505(b)(2) NDA on track for FDA submission in Q1 2018
8. Achillion Announces Presentation of Data From OMEGA-1 Phase 2b Trial With Odalasvir, AL-335, and Simeprevir (JNJ-4178) at the 2017 Liver Meeting
– 98.9% SVR12 achieved following six weeks of therapy for patients with chronic HCV genotypes 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6 –
9. AstraZeneca and Merck Rapidly Advance LYNPARZA® (olaparib) in Japan With a Second Regulatory Submission
AstraZeneca and Merck Rapidly Advance LYNPARZA® (olaparib) in Japan With a Second Regulatory Submission
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She specializes in social engineering security assessments including physical voice vishing and text phishing.
She consults in remediation and prevention of security incidents through creation of policy and procedures as well as customized training for your individual office culture.
I gained network access and stole several thousands of dollars in physical primitives by picking my way through cheap locks credit to Deviant Ollam for the rad lockpicking animations.
recent actions took place in the middle of a firestorm over revelations in The New York Times and The New Yorker about another entertainment industry figure Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of decades of sexual harassment and abuse.
On the same day Price was suspended an actress Rose McGowan posted a series of messages on Twitter saying she had previously told the head of Amazon Studios the movie and television group that Weinstein had raped her.
In August at a staff meeting for Amazon employees held at a basketball arena Bezos was asked about the dearth of diversity implying gender and race on his senior leadership team.
recent actions took place in the middle of a firestorm over revelations in The New York Times and The New Yorker about another entertainment industry figure Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of decades of sexual harassment and abuse.
On the same day Price was suspended an actress Rose McGowan posted a series of messages on Twitter saying she had previously told the head of Amazon Studios the movie and television group that Weinstein had raped her.
In August at a staff meeting for Amazon employees held at a basketball arena Bezos was asked about the dearth of diversity implying gender and race on his senior leadership team.
Because all lived through massive worldwide hardware revolutions the growth of the Internet and the adoption of smartphones we erroneously assume another one is around the corner and once again a few kids in a garage can write a little software to take advantage of it.
However in fairness software and services built atop newly emerging hardware are likely an exception to the larger rule here startups in those niches have far better odds than most others.
True believers argue that cryptocurrencies will overturn everything in time but read this Twitter thread and see if like me you help but finding yourself nodding along even if like me you truly want the Internet and its economy to be decentralized.
This situation upsets me because the XL has numerous desirable advantages over the much smaller bezels a larger battery that lasts longer and just a bigger canvas on which I can pen my letter of complaint to LG Display the maker of the offending screen in question.
The Verge Creative Director James Bareham sides with Google on this describing the Pixel XL as the phone screen tuned most closely to professional displays presents natural colors in terms of photos but is a little dark he says.
I have also photographed cats cars architecture and nighttime scenes and in each case looking at them on the XL made me want to edit some saturation in and modify the color balance.
First reported on Twitter by Android Alex Dobie multiple people have noticed that when you look at the screen with a gray background you can see faint outlines of the navigation buttons on the bottom.
Whatever it is worrisome so we reached out to Google for comment and the response from a spokesperson in full but obviously pay attention to the second part more than the rosy specs listed in the first half.
Having a portion of your screen permanently marred takes what was a negative point against the phone and turns it into something much closer to a.
This group includes Jeff Blackburn the entertainment head and David Limp who oversees the Amazon devices division responsible for projects like the Echo and Alexa.
The dynamic at highest ranks has not become a major narrative over the last few years even as power has grown and the technology industry has come under fire for being dominated mainly by white men.
current and former employees are suggesting that the scarcity of women at the upper echelons of Amazon could have made the company more lenient toward Price until his actions became a public relations embarrassment The New York Times reported on Friday evening.
Dressed in black jeans brown loafers a denim jacket only clothes I can fit and wearing a Fitbit with a hot pink band that cost her on Amazon Fowler is and seven months pregnant.
As Kara Swisher wrote in Recode Fowler did everyone in tech a favor by unmasking the donkeys as by the venture capitalists and investors and boards and even the media felling them with one blog post what happens when a hot company becomes hostage to its increasingly dysfunctional and toxic.
The blog post was notable for its dispassionate tone as the young engineer who had left the company after a year walked the reader through everything that had gone very very wrong in the brozilla culture of kegs sexual coarseness and snaky competition.
In June Kaspersky revealed that it and a bunch of locales where negotiations over the Iran deal took place had been infected by Duqu a thread related to StuxNet.
Regin was a sophisticated spy tool Kaspersky found in the wild last year that was used to hack the Belgian telecom Belgacom and the European Commission.
She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog publishes at outlets including Vice Motherboard the Nation the Atlantic Al Jazeera and appears frequently on television and radio.
No doubt when Kalanick met the Fowler at the office Christmas party soon after she started it never entered his head that she would become the disciplinarian who effectively confiscated his car keys for reckless driving with one blog post.
The blog post was notable for its dispassionate tone as the young engineer who had left the company after a year walked the reader through everything that had gone very very wrong in the brozilla culture of kegs sexual coarseness and snaky competition.
When memo exploded Huffington oversaw the investigation by Eric Holder reached out and talked to employees and said she wanted to the leadership feet to the Uber later fired people including senior executives.
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These included transforming operations and cost structure for growth assuming a leadership position in the server market segment and maintaining profitability during the global recession.
He joined Intel in and served in a number of positions including general manager of Peripheral Components Operation and the Folsom Microcomputer Division and in as Andy chief of staff.
From to he held various positions at Intel including executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group responsible for the microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop mobile and enterprise computing as well as executive vice president and general manager of the Sales and Marketing Group.
The European Union EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to announce a recovery order later reports the Financial Times.
Such a move by the European Commission EC would be similar to a euros bill it levied against US technology giant Apple last year for Irish back taxes the Financial Times said.
Separately the European Commission is set to announce plans to crack down on VAT fraud which cost the bloc euros in lost tax each year.
This means that the payments between two companies in the same group should be in line with arrangements that take place under commercial conditions between independent businesses arm length principle.
The Commission also has two ongoing investigations into concerns that tax rulings may give rise to state aid issues in Luxembourg as regards McDonald and GDF Suez now Engie.
Our Communication set out the challenges Member States currently face when it comes to acting on this pressing issue and outlines possible solutions to be explored ahead of a Commission proposal in.
These included transforming operations and cost structure for growth assuming a leadership position in the server market segment and maintaining profitability during the global recession.
He joined Intel in and served in a number of positions including general manager of Peripheral Components Operation and the Folsom Microcomputer Division and in as Andy chief of staff.
From to he held various positions at Intel including executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group responsible for the microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop mobile and enterprise computing as well as executive vice president and general manager of the Sales and Marketing Group.
Continue reading the main story That investigators did not discover the full extent of the incident before Verizon closed the deal to acquire Yahoo in June was surprising to outside cybersecurity analysts.
But last August a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe quietly began offering information for sale according to intelligence gathered by InfoArmor an Arizona cybersecurity company that monitors the darker corners of the web.
Investigators said the Russian government used stolen Yahoo data to spy on a range of targets in the United States including White House and military officials bank executives and even a gambling regulator in Nevada according to an indictment.
you see all these large enterprise software companies looking at messaging as a major platform looking to partner with us first and foremost said Brad Armstrong head of global business and corporate development.
Slack entered the partnership to differentiate its messaging product among large corporations a market the company has made a top priority since launching an version of its messenger in January.
Slack is hoping the Oracle partnership will entice more corporations to choose its messenger over Microsoft Teams Facebook Workplace and Atlassian Stride all of which launched in the past year.
Unlike a lot of digital media executives who scramble to figure out a revenue model only after built an audience Chung who at is old enough not only to remember the dotcom bubble but to have worked in it is measured and cool when asked how Giphy which is reportedly valued by investors at million will make money.
years later we were on stage at showing Mark Zuckerberg send Messenger chief David Marcus a GIF from Giphy Chung says in his calm even manner one morning in September as he sits with Leibsohn in a dimly lit conference room in the Meatpacking District headquarters.
left to right Jasmyn Lawson Stacy Rizetta and Tiffany Vazquez Photo Emiliano Granado By adding more original content including material that it is making itself with a growing network of artists and overseen by a producer worked at SNL and The Colbert Report Giphy is trying to distinguish itself just the way Netflix is with series like Stranger Things in an effort to create more user demand.
As Recode previously reported the quarreling board decided on a compromise peeling out more stringent terms that would have further attempted to put guardrails around Kalanick while also giving more power to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Shervin Pishevar one of closest allies and a former board observer at the company previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal on voting changes be approved.
board action today was unfair and illegal and we will be relentless in rectifying this wrong he said in a statement after the vote alleging that it takes more valuable shares away from early owners like himself.
Snap has sold about of its camera glasses called Spectacles CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday.
For Snap the glasses are a way to build expertise in the hardware field in anticipation of greater adoption in the next ten years so many things are coming for Spectacles he said.
While Snap IPO saw big gains out of the gate shares have fallen more than percent over the past six months.
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