How AI can strengthen and defend democracy
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* Stocks or companies mentioned: TWTR, NFLX, SHOP, FB, BYND, MSI, ABBV, AAPL, K, and Mozilla
How AI can strengthen and defend democracy
TWTR (Twitter Inc.) | Venture Beat
This is our fourth in an annual installment of stories about AI-powered solutions or machine learning can better democracy. Recently, a false rumor about Kamala Harris — spread in part by Twitter bots — was shared by both President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Chief among those is governmental use of real-time facial recognition to identify dissidents at protests. As AI experts unanimously agreed in Congressional testimony in May, facial recognition software can dampen activity at protests and limit the Constitutional freedom to assemble. Beyond protests, real-time facial recognition software in public places can, as recent facial recognition ban legislation put it, become a form of tracking akin to asking people to walk around with their ID exposed at all times.
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Netflix to crack down on smoking depictions
NFLX (Netflix Inc.) | Seeking Alpha
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) plans to add smoking warnings to its online rating system and omit smoking from all future films produced by the streamer unless the director can prove it is essential to the creative vision of the story.
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Analysts Anticipate Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) Will Post Earnings of $0.04 Per Share
SHOP (Shopify Inc) | Marea Informative
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Shopify will report full-year earnings of $0.57 per share for the current fiscal year, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.28 to $0.79. Finally, Wedbush cut Shopify from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their price target for the stock from $270.00 to $305.00 in a research note on Tuesday, June 25th.
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Can Facebook’s Libra Avoid Regulators? History Suggests Not
FB (Facebook Inc.) | The Wall Street Journal
For all its crypto styling, Facebook’s Libra looks less like bitcoin and more like a 50-year-old type of investment fund that has attracted intense regulatory scrutiny since the 2008 financial crisis. Investors should be skeptical of claims it can escape the same kind of attention. This is a familiar question raised by sharing-economy disrupters like ride-service firm Uber and hospitality platform Airbnb. How much of what they offer is a new source of value? Or are they just jumping—temporarily—ahead of outdated laws?
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Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and the plant-based burger of the summer. Here are the diet facts you need to know
BYND (Beyond Meat, Inc.) | CNBC
However, not only do both of these exist, but they both share common ancestors – Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. Indeed, one Impossible Burger contains 40% of the recommended daily intake of saturated fat while the Beyond Burger fairs slightly better at 30%. "If [consumers] are gonna go to a fast food restaurant and they're gonna get a burger anyways, it's better to get the plant-based burger," Hever said. "But if they're gonna go have a healthy whole food meal or a plant-based burger, I'd rather them have the whole plant meal. Not all saturated fats are created equal and the saturated fats found in our products come from coconut oil, cocoa butter and canola oil."
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Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) Has A Pretty Healthy Balance Sheet
MSI (Motorola Solutions Inc.) | Simply Wall St
How Much Debt Does Motorola Solutions Carry? The latest balance sheet data shows that Motorola Solutions had liabilities of US$2.98b due within a year, and liabilities of US$8.10b falling due after that. Motorola Solutions has a very large market capitalization of US$28.1b, so it could very likely ameliorate its balance sheet if the need arose. Since Motorola Solutions does have net debt, we think it is worthwhile for shareholders to keep an eye on the balance sheet, over time. But ultimately the future profitability of the business will decide if Motorola Solutions can strengthen its balance sheet over time.
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Why AbbVie's Stock Sank in the First Half of 2019
ABBV (AbbVie Inc.) | The Motley Fool
Why did investors give AbbVie's stock the cold shoulder in the first half of 2019? First off, the company's flagship arthritis medication Humira saw its European sales take a big hit following the introduction of biosimilar competition. Second, AbbVie decided to address Humira's patent cliff by acquiring Botox maker Allergan (NYSE:AGN) for a whopping $63 billion. While Skyrizi won't be a panacea for AbbVie's patent woes, it should at least help to blunt the impact of Humira's ongoing battle with biosimilars. Stated simply, AbbVie's stock might have fallen too far too fast in 2019.
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UK PM candidate Johnson urges tax on global tech giants
AAPL (Apple Inc.) | Reuters
Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to replace Theresa May as British Prime Minister, said on Thursday the government had to find a way to tax global technology giants on their income.
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Kellogg Is Sitting on a ‘Fake Meat’ Gold Mine Bigger Than Beyond Meat
K (Kellogg Company) | Barron's
Kellogg stock (ticker: K) which peaked at $87 in July 2016, is down to under $54 and recently touched a seven-year low after falling 6.4% just since the start of this year through Monday. Anyone watching the stock market, reading the financial news, or even watching consumer news knows that there’s a sudden Wall Street mania for so-called fake meat burgers. Editor's ChoiceYet Kellogg already owns the largest fake meat operation in the country in MorningStar Farms, a brand that has been around since the 1970s. The Barron’s view: Beyond Meat Stock Could Burn ShareholdersI tried MorningStar’s Grillers vegetarian burgers not long ago, on the recommendation of some friends. MorningStar Grillers sell for about $6.50 a pound at Walmart (WMT), where gross margins average about 25%.
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UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
Mozilla Corporation | ZDNet
The trade association for internet service providers in the UK has nominated Mozilla for this year's award of "Internet Villain" because of the browser maker's plans to support the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol in its Firefox browser. In a statement published this week, the Internet Services Providers Association (ISPAUK) claimed that Mozilla plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS "in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK." The DNS-over-HTTPS protocol (IETF RFC8484) works by sending DNS requests via an encrypted HTTPS connection, rather than using a classic plaintext UDP request, as classic DNS works. The other difference is that besides being encrypted, the DoH protocol also works at the app level, rather than the OS level. By planning to support DNS-over-HTTPS, Mozilla is throwing a monkey wrench in many ISPs' ability to sniff on customers' traffic and filter traffic for government-mandated "bad sites."
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* Stocks or companies mentioned: TWTR, NFLX, SHOP, FB, BYND, MSI, ABBV, AAPL, K, and Mozilla
How AI can strengthen and defend democracy
TWTR (Twitter Inc.) | Venture Beat
This is our fourth in an annual installment of stories about AI-powered solutions or machine learning can better democracy. Recently, a false rumor about Kamala Harris — spread in part by Twitter bots — was shared by both President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Chief among those is governmental use of real-time facial recognition to identify dissidents at protests. As AI experts unanimously agreed in Congressional testimony in May, facial recognition software can dampen activity at protests and limit the Constitutional freedom to assemble. Beyond protests, real-time facial recognition software in public places can, as recent facial recognition ban legislation put it, become a form of tracking akin to asking people to walk around with their ID exposed at all times.
Read More
Netflix to crack down on smoking depictions
NFLX (Netflix Inc.) | Seeking Alpha
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) plans to add smoking warnings to its online rating system and omit smoking from all future films produced by the streamer unless the director can prove it is essential to the creative vision of the story.
Read More
Analysts Anticipate Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) Will Post Earnings of $0.04 Per Share
SHOP (Shopify Inc) | Marea Informative
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Shopify will report full-year earnings of $0.57 per share for the current fiscal year, with EPS estimates ranging from $0.28 to $0.79. Finally, Wedbush cut Shopify from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their price target for the stock from $270.00 to $305.00 in a research note on Tuesday, June 25th.
Read More
Can Facebook’s Libra Avoid Regulators? History Suggests Not
FB (Facebook Inc.) | The Wall Street Journal
For all its crypto styling, Facebook’s Libra looks less like bitcoin and more like a 50-year-old type of investment fund that has attracted intense regulatory scrutiny since the 2008 financial crisis. Investors should be skeptical of claims it can escape the same kind of attention. This is a familiar question raised by sharing-economy disrupters like ride-service firm Uber and hospitality platform Airbnb. How much of what they offer is a new source of value? Or are they just jumping—temporarily—ahead of outdated laws?
Read More
Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and the plant-based burger of the summer. Here are the diet facts you need to know
BYND (Beyond Meat, Inc.) | CNBC
However, not only do both of these exist, but they both share common ancestors – Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. Indeed, one Impossible Burger contains 40% of the recommended daily intake of saturated fat while the Beyond Burger fairs slightly better at 30%. "If [consumers] are gonna go to a fast food restaurant and they're gonna get a burger anyways, it's better to get the plant-based burger," Hever said. "But if they're gonna go have a healthy whole food meal or a plant-based burger, I'd rather them have the whole plant meal. Not all saturated fats are created equal and the saturated fats found in our products come from coconut oil, cocoa butter and canola oil."
Read More
Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) Has A Pretty Healthy Balance Sheet
MSI (Motorola Solutions Inc.) | Simply Wall St
How Much Debt Does Motorola Solutions Carry? The latest balance sheet data shows that Motorola Solutions had liabilities of US$2.98b due within a year, and liabilities of US$8.10b falling due after that. Motorola Solutions has a very large market capitalization of US$28.1b, so it could very likely ameliorate its balance sheet if the need arose. Since Motorola Solutions does have net debt, we think it is worthwhile for shareholders to keep an eye on the balance sheet, over time. But ultimately the future profitability of the business will decide if Motorola Solutions can strengthen its balance sheet over time.
Read More
Why AbbVie's Stock Sank in the First Half of 2019
ABBV (AbbVie Inc.) | The Motley Fool
Why did investors give AbbVie's stock the cold shoulder in the first half of 2019? First off, the company's flagship arthritis medication Humira saw its European sales take a big hit following the introduction of biosimilar competition. Second, AbbVie decided to address Humira's patent cliff by acquiring Botox maker Allergan (NYSE:AGN) for a whopping $63 billion. While Skyrizi won't be a panacea for AbbVie's patent woes, it should at least help to blunt the impact of Humira's ongoing battle with biosimilars. Stated simply, AbbVie's stock might have fallen too far too fast in 2019.
Read More
UK PM candidate Johnson urges tax on global tech giants
AAPL (Apple Inc.) | Reuters
Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to replace Theresa May as British Prime Minister, said on Thursday the government had to find a way to tax global technology giants on their income.
Read More
Kellogg Is Sitting on a ‘Fake Meat’ Gold Mine Bigger Than Beyond Meat
K (Kellogg Company) | Barron's
Kellogg stock (ticker: K) which peaked at $87 in July 2016, is down to under $54 and recently touched a seven-year low after falling 6.4% just since the start of this year through Monday. Anyone watching the stock market, reading the financial news, or even watching consumer news knows that there’s a sudden Wall Street mania for so-called fake meat burgers. Editor's ChoiceYet Kellogg already owns the largest fake meat operation in the country in MorningStar Farms, a brand that has been around since the 1970s. The Barron’s view: Beyond Meat Stock Could Burn ShareholdersI tried MorningStar’s Grillers vegetarian burgers not long ago, on the recommendation of some friends. MorningStar Grillers sell for about $6.50 a pound at Walmart (WMT), where gross margins average about 25%.
Read More
UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
Mozilla Corporation | ZDNet
The trade association for internet service providers in the UK has nominated Mozilla for this year's award of "Internet Villain" because of the browser maker's plans to support the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol in its Firefox browser. In a statement published this week, the Internet Services Providers Association (ISPAUK) claimed that Mozilla plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS "in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK." The DNS-over-HTTPS protocol (IETF RFC8484) works by sending DNS requests via an encrypted HTTPS connection, rather than using a classic plaintext UDP request, as classic DNS works. The other difference is that besides being encrypted, the DoH protocol also works at the app level, rather than the OS level. By planning to support DNS-over-HTTPS, Mozilla is throwing a monkey wrench in many ISPs' ability to sniff on customers' traffic and filter traffic for government-mandated "bad sites."
Read More
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