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Five Years of Futility Breaking for Bears as Shorts Fall 8%
2014-08-11 21:06:01| Electronics - Topix.net
After a five-year bull market that has impoverished almost anyone trying to profit from falling stocks, bears are finally reaping gains.
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Merck and Endocyte Announce Independent DSMB Recommends Vintafolide PROCEED Phase 3 Trial Be Stopped for Futility Following Interim Analysis
2014-05-02 14:00:00| Merck.com - Corporate News
Dateline City: WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Endocyte, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECYT), today announced that the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) of the PROCEED trial has completed a pre-specified, interim futility analysis and the DSMB recommended that the trial be stopped because vintafolide did not demonstrate efficacy on the pre-specified outcome of Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. Language: English Contact: MerckMedia:Ian McConnell, +1 908-423-3046Claire Mulhearn, +1 908-423-7425orInvestors:Carol Ferguson, +1 908-423-4465Justin Holko, +1 908-423-5088orEndocyteMedia:Martina Schwarzkopf, +1 212-845-4292Tony Russo, +1 212-845-4251orInvestors:Stephanie Ascher, +1 212-362-1200 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE Ticker: ECYT Exchange: NASDAQ read more
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The futility of Surface and Windows RT: If only Microsoft had stuck with Intel
2013-10-29 21:07:22| Extremetech
Over the past week, I've had the fortune to play with both Microsoft's Surface 2 and the Asus T100 Transformer Book. These are very similar devices -- convertible laptops with detachable keyboards -- except for one big and fundamentally life-altering difference: Where the Surface 2 is powered by Nvidia's ARM-based Tegra 4 SoC, the Transformer Book has Intel's x86 Bay Trail under the hood. As a result, while the Surface 2 runs Windows RT, the T100 runs full Windows 8.1. Yes, every program and game that you use on your Windows desktop PC also works on the T100. Steam works on the T100. Team Fortress 2 works on the T100. Photoshop works (surprisingly well!) on the T100. Let that sink in for a moment, and then read on.
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Time calculator shows futility in trying to keep up with Twitter
2013-02-19 01:00:00| CNET News.com
The Tweetulator Twitter time calculator offers a compelling case for keeping your Twitter following activities down to a reasonable size. [Read more]
Legal Lode: Public Futility
2013-01-26 18:21:00| Waste Age
Seven tips for safer waste and recycling operations in the New Year. read more
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