Media Digest (9/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters) Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls below targets.…
Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters) Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls below targets.…
Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). It is more…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO), Chesapeake Energy Corporation…
IPOs of Citic Securities and Great Wall Motor struggle, a sign that offerings from China are in trouble. (Reuters) The unresolved Greece problem continues to damage markets. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may…
World stocks rise on the hope that the eurozone will address its financial problems. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares fall because of rumors that iPad production is low. (Reuters) Warren Buffett’s Berkshire…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Just last week we noted a new study from the Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT) that the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looked set to dominate the tablet market until at…
Updated throughout the day Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has a deal to stream Dreamworks movies (NYT) Groupon no longer has a date for its IPO (WSJ) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will release a tablet…
Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters) Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious…
Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and DVD-by-mail market…
Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a few years.…
Web site visitors didn’t set any records last month, but they also didn’t lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall though, more…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is suffering from the most obvious management blunders of 2011 for media companies. This stock has been punished after changing its pricing structure. The company apologized, but it…
The number of adults using e-readers like the Kindle from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the Nook from Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) has nearly doubled in the past year, from 8%…
According to Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings, the company’s recent diving stock price reflects a failure on his part to communicate clearly what the company is doing. That sort of…