Media Digest 11/16/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The Ohio Attorney General is suing a number of Wall St. firms. Reuters: GM will start to repay part of its debt to the US. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) will sell Bellsystem…
Reuters: The Ohio Attorney General is suing a number of Wall St. firms. Reuters: GM will start to repay part of its debt to the US. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) will sell Bellsystem…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), book authors and publishers had until midnight to provide a federal court with a plan to settle their differences on how the search engine digitizes and charges for books. The…
Reuters: China’s economy may be hurt as its stimulus ends. Reuters: Warren Buffett says the financial panic is over. Reuters: Former bankers are considering buying failed banks. Reuters: The SEC is expected to…
You have already seen the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS). But this week before that deal was announced we covered how mergers in the technology sector have been…
Several studies show that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engine picked up market share in October. Combined with Yahoo! the two companies could end up with clost to 30% of the industry in…
It is usually questionable if Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its new Bing.com search engine is stealing from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) or from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) when it comes to…
Updated throughout the day. 11:45 AM EST: Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may seek to sell its Home & Networking division for about $4.5 billion according to WSJ. -Jon Ogg American Air (NYSE:AMR)…
RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) has been under seige these last few weeks. Investors are concerned that the Blackberry maker is losing market share to the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and a new group of handsets…
Reuters: Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were acquited. Reuters: Zucker, NBCU’s current CEO, will head the company when Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) buys a majority of the company from GE (NYSE:GE). Reuters: Dodd’s super-bank regulator…
The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals. Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260…
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NYSE:NWS), has made it clear that he is done with the BBC and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) stealing his content and using it to make money. He may…
Reuters: Markets hit their 2009 highs. Reuters: Dodd is set to unveil his financial reform bill which calls for merging many bank regulators. Reuters: Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) bid for Cadbury turned hostile. Reuters: …
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is up with the broad market today by almost 2%, and shares are completely unphased at all on news that the company is spending $750 million in shares…
Reuters: The Wall St. insider trading probe lead to another 14 arrests. Reuters: Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) lost $19 billion and asked Treasury for money. Reuters: GM is readying its plans for Opel…
Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) returned to a profit. Reuters: The Fed will keep rates near zero for an extended period. Reuters: Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) beat forecasts. Reuters: Gold is near $1,100.