Media Digest 2/2/2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
BP plc (NYSE: BP) may face US charges that it manipulated gas prices. (Reuters) Roche said that regulations in the US could harms its results. (Reuters) Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) may file…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) may face US charges that it manipulated gas prices. (Reuters) Roche said that regulations in the US could harms its results. (Reuters) Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) may file…
The IMF “Fiscal Monitor” and ratings agencies have both warned Japan and the US on their growing debt loads (Reuters) Ford Motor’s (NYSE: F) annual profit may be its largest since 2000…
The first thing that experts in the gaming industry will point out about the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) portable NGP video game console is that it cannot succeed in a market crowded…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings will be hurt by slowing PC sales .(Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to cut the dividend on their preferred shares. The money goes to the Treasury…
The recorded music business, currently floating on a sea of red, does not appear to be a solid investment, but that’s not keeping some industry giants from trying either to buy or…
A report from Bloomberg this morning has got the online gaming world abuzz. Bloomberg cites “two people with knowledge of the plans” who say that an updated PlayStation Portable, or PSP, handheld…
The Kinect version of Xbox 360 sold eight million units the first 60 days it was on the market. Kinect sales should have improved as the holiday season progressed. That did not…
The holidays are upon us and the rumors are still active. Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) depends upon which wire service you read, but reports signal that it could be nationalized…
There are several rumors and developments happening this morning. We are tracking these and other situations, with updates throughout the day pending developments. China is considering a tightening of credit by tightening…
There is growing evidence that the Nintendo Wii, which dominated game console sales for nearly three years, is losing market share. That position has been taken by the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox…
The US government has broadened it probe of insider trading. (Reuters) The euro will not last more than a few years, according to Jim Rogers. (Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are…
The recorded music business has been getting beaten up for the last decade or so, starting with the original release of Napster in the late 1990s. Music industry executives decided that they’d…
The new Microsoft (NASADQ: MSFT) Kinect, which has already sold 1 million units, and updated versions of products from Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo had all better sell well in November and…
Mitsui was billed $1.8 billion from BP plc (NYSE: BP) for clean-up costs. (Reuters) A limited number of holidays and warm weather probably hurt retail sales in October. (Reuters) Canada may approve…
Let’s see. Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) just shipped its last Walkman, the original portable music player that was just slightly larger than a cassette tape. If you don’t know what a cassette tape…