$SHLD Sears shares soar after $1 billion restructuring announced

1. SHLD: $SHLD Sears shares soar after $1 billion restructuring announced – MW

2. INFN:  $INFN Infinera Q4 Loss Lower than Expected, Revenues Top – Yahoo

3. CTRL:  $CTRL Control4 Reports Record Revenue and Income From Operations for the Fourth Quarter – BW

4. ATVI:  $ATVI Activision Surges 10%: Q4 Rev Beats, Sets $1B Buyback Plan – Barron’s

5. SKX:  $SKX Skechers Q4 Earnings Miss, Stock Up on Solid Sales – Zacks

6. IMMU, SGEN:  $IMMU Immunomedics Reaches Deal With Seattle Genetics $SGEN For Sacituzumab Govitecan – Nasdaq

7. SWIR:  $SWIR Sierra Wireless Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results – BW

8. HDP:  $HDP Hortonworks: Hadoop Distributor Jumps 8% on Q4 Beat – Barron’s

9. ASYS:  $ASYS Amtech quarterly results show growth in orders and revenues – pv magazine

10. MJN:  $MJN Reckitt Benckiser to Buy Mead Johnson in $16.6 Billion Deal – BBG

11. MT:  $MT ArcelorMittal’s Surging Profit Underscores Steel Turnaround – BBG

12. ACOR:  $ACOR Acorda Therapeutics Entered Into Settlement Agreement with Apotex – SI

13. COLM:  $COLM Columbia Sportswear Q4 Earnings Beat, Sales Miss – Zacks

14. NVDA:  $NVDA NVIDIA Tops Q4 EPS by 30c as Revenues Surge 55% – SI

15. CSX:  $CSX Silence at CSX May Signal Takeover by Harrison as Deadline Looms – BBG

16. RPD:  $RPD Rapid7 Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Financial Results – ET

17. RGC:  $RGC Regal Entertainment beats Street 4Q forecasts – AP

18. QUOT:  $QUOT Quotient Technology Revenues Beat For Fifth Straight Quarter – SA

19. CX:  $CX CEMEX and GCC Announce Pricing of 15.6% Stake in Grupo Cementos De Chihuahua – Yahoo

20. EXPE:  $EXPE Expedia turns profit, no thanks to Orbitz – MW

21. ANTM, CI:  $CI Anthem $ANTM to appeal after $48 billion Cigna purchase blocked – MW

22. P: $P Pandora’s Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates but Still Endured $90 Million Net Loss – Nasdaq

23. AON, BX: $AON Blackstone $BX to Pay Up to $4.8 Billion for Aon Outsourcing Business – NYT

24. NDLS: $NDLS Noodles & Company Announces Proposed Offering of Common Stock – GN

25. AMZN, LB: $LB Amazon $AMZN takes aim at Victoria’s Secret with its own $10 bras – MW

26. WU:  $WU Western Union reports 4Q loss – AP

27. ZNGA:  $ZNGA FarmVille’ creator Zynga forecasts bookings below estimates – Reuters

28. MPWR:  $MPWR Monolithic Power Systems Announces Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended Dec 31, 2016

29. CBIO:  $CBIO Catalyst Biosciences will do reverse stock split to maintain Nasdaq listing – MW

30. CLF:  $CLF Cliffs Natural Resources To Launch 50M-Share Offering – SA

31. CERN:  $CERN Cerner Offers Conservative Outlook After System Sales Slow – TheStreet

32. SGEN:  $SGEN Seattle Genetics Reports Fourth Quarter and Year 2016 Financial Results – BW

33. CATM:  $CATM Cardtronics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2016 Results – SI

34. BTX:  $BTX BioTime Plans Offer of Common Stock – SI

35. UBNT:  $UBNT Ubiquiti Misses on Q2 Earnings; Revenues Up Y/Y – Zacks

36. YELP:  $YELP Yelp’s Profits And Sales Rise, But Investors Sour On Outlook – Forbes

37. RSYS:  $RSYS Radisys Corp Reveals 43% Fall In Q4 Profit – RTT

38. TCON:  $TCON Tracon slips as brain cancer trial misses the mark – FierceBio

39. ONVO:  $ONVO Organovo Holdings’ Unpleasant Q3 Surprise: Still Plenty of Skepticism About 3D Tissues

1. INFN:Infinera target increased at Needham & Company, upgraded to Buy at Instinet

2. MT:$MT B of A “We upgrade to BUY setting a PO of EUR10.5.”

1. BFAM:William Blair Downgrades Bright Horizons to Hold $BFAM

2. TEVA:$TEVA downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at Mizuho.

3. TSRO:$TSRO downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Leerink. PT $152

4. TWTR:#Twitter downgraded from hold to sell at Loop Capital. Price target cut from $16 to $10. $TWTR -2.13% at 16.06 prem…

5. ZAYO:#Zayo Group downgraded to underperform from market perform at FBR. Price target cut from $30 to $25. $ZAYO -3.18% a…

1. AON:$AON reports FQ4 earnings of $2.56 EPS and $3.32B Revs –

2. CPN:$CPN reports FQ4 earnings of -41c EPS and $1.58B Revs –

3. ESNT:$ESNT reports FQ4 earnings of 68c EPS and $126.37M Revs –

4. BPL:$BPL reports FQ4 earnings of 92c EPS and $924.06M Revs –

5. BEAV:$BEAV reports FQ4 earnings of 80c EPS and $730.40M Revs –

6. CBG:$CBG reports FQ4 earnings of 93c EPS and $3.82B Revs –

7. G:$G reports FQ4 earnings of 43c EPS and $681.75M Revs –

8. IPG:$IPG reports FQ4 earnings of 75c EPS and $2.27B Revs –

9. SXT:$SXT reports FQ4 earnings of 80c EPS and $330.24M Revs –

10. AXL:$AXL reports FQ4 earnings of 78c EPS and $946.50M Revs –

1. SGEN:$IMMU Enters Into Exclusive Licensing Agreement With $SGEN for Sacituzumab Govitecan With Potential Payments of Up to Apprx $2B + Royalties

2. SHLD:After a gain of 41% in the pre-market, Sears is now only down 16% YTD. $SHLD

3. G:Genpact beats by $0.04, misses on revenue #premarket $G

4. ICPT:$ICPT Intercept to Provide Update on Phase 3 REGENERATE Trial of Obeticholic Acid for the Treatment of NASH Patients with Liver Fibrosis

1. Abby Joseph Cohen, Famous for Bullish Calls, to Retire

2. OPEC Keeps Its Promise About Crude Oil Cuts, IEA Says

3. Barclays feels Valeant share recovery is possible

4. Oil overhang points to need for extended OPEC output cuts

5. Gasoline sails away from American drivers as East Coast stocks swell

6. Oil Jumps as IEA Sees Record OPEC Cuts Compliance, Rising Demand

1. Airbnb is in talks to make its biggest acquisition yet

The Airbnb board of directors is expected to vote on approving the deal this week said the people who asked not to be identified because the terms have yet to be finalized.

The Luxury Retreats site also offers customers a concierge service with access to private chefs bartenders and masseuses similar to what Airbnb added a few months ago.

Airbnb said this week that it sees a lot of room to grow in Montreal and other Canadian cities including Toronto where listings jumped almost percent last year.

2. Concern I’m hearing: How is it that Twitter is at the center of the national news, and wasn’t able to boost sales?

Even as Twitter sits at the center of daily media reports given President Donald frequent blasts the company has had trouble persuading advertisers to spend more money on the platform as fewer people join.

we may not be meeting growth expectations one thing that continues to grow and outpace our peers influence and impact Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on a call with analysts.

Video and curbs on abuse may not be enough to boost excitement about product said James Cakmak an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt even though Twitter is at the center of global political conversation.

3. Now, Cortana can help you remember things you’ve said you would do in your emails—without you even having to ask:

4. Well put @WIRED “Online privacy is like anything else in life: You get what you pay for.”

For consumers and organizations trying to improve their security by using a VPN shielding their web traffic from potentially malicious snooping guarding their privacy making it more difficult for a government or other entity to know what they do and say online hard to know where to turn.

economics make much sense because when you start looking at these applications most of them are free but maintaining online infrastructure is actually very expensive says Narseo a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute who worked on the study.

Experts recommend choosing a VPN is developed by a reputable company or group has a good public security track record and at least makes an effort to be transparent about its priorities goals and privacy policy.

5. 😳 Bezos: Well, I’m, you know… (Looks down and is quiet for a moment.) I feel that this interview is about music.

The early lead in CD retailing was undone by piracy and during the digital downloading craze Amazon was overtaken by iTunes Store.

Both men were fit and casually dressed and sat apart on a plush blue couch in a conference room overlooking a company dog park.

Accompanied occasionally by the faint sound of barking Bezos and Boom spoke candidly about their goals their vision and why you need a assistant in your bathroom.

6. Oof, Pandora launched its new radio Plus subscription in Q4 but company subscription revenue is only up 5% this year

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7. Facebook just hired someone from MTV to join the team that build out its “original content ecosystem.”

Looking forward to your many creative achievements ahead.

Congratulations Mina I looking forward to working with you.

Congratulations Mina.

8. Zenefits outsourcing to Bangalore as part of this reorg/layoff.

9. Just what any laid-off employee wants to hear

Zenefits will lay off of its employees in an effort to slash costs according to an internal memo this morning that was obtained by BuzzFeed News a stark acknowledgment by the embattled human resources startup that its onetime expectations for growth were vastly inflated.

A Zenefits spokesperson Jessica Hoffman said in an emailed statement to BuzzFeed News has been planned for some time and is the result of a lot of hard work over the past year to improve our products and service and make the operations of the company more.

As a result of the latest layoffs Hoffman said in the statement have a dramatically improved cost structure the ability to deliver a product roadmap that exceeds customer expectations and enough cash to fund our operations for years to.