Media Digest 3/3/2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The Treasury expects $6.4 billion from the sales of AIG’s (NYSE: AIG) sale of its MetLift share (Reuters) The government is examining a number of small banks to see if they restructured…
The Treasury expects $6.4 billion from the sales of AIG’s (NYSE: AIG) sale of its MetLift share (Reuters) The government is examining a number of small banks to see if they restructured…
ZAGG Incorporated (NASDAQ: ZAGG) is getting crushed today due to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a feature of its iPad2 that Steve Jobs himself debuted today. ZAGG makes the invisibleSHIELD and makes…
Updated throughout the day Yahoo! will sell its Japan interests to Softbank for $8 billion (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will offer support services to small businesses for $499 a year. The project…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in talks to sell its part of a Japanese joint venture for $8 billion. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 today. (Reuters) The SEC charged…
Jon OggThe short sellers seem to be increasing bets in some sectors while decreasing their bets elsewhere. We are again seeing a record low in the short interest while others are seeing…
The iTunes store has been a huge success for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has yet to introduce a music marketplace, but hopes do so next month, according to…
The new MacBook Pro has a price tag between $1,199 and $2,499. It is more powerful than the mainframes IBM marketed in the 1960s. The computer has quad core processors, Thunderbolt technology,…
EADS division Airbus lost out on an Air Force tanker to Boeing (NYSE: BA) (Reuters) Gold and oil moved higher on concerns about Libya (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched a new MacBook Pro…
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has just jointed the waves and waves of companies which have filed their 2010 annual reports under the form 10-K with the SEC. Most investors do not read…
Brent crude rose $6 to $113 on worries about Middle East contagion. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) is likely to post its first annual profit since 2004. (Reuters) An effort by shareholders to…
The chase for advertising dollars just waiting to be harvested from all those smartphones is just getting starting. Of an estimated $500 billion in annual global ad spending, only about $2.7 billion…
Updated throughout the day. NASDAQ may make at bid for NYSE (NYSE: NYX) (various) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 on March 2 (Reuters) The SEC will launch a probe…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is starting to show more cracks in its story against the world of bundled GPS and personal navigation services in smartphones. The GPS leader turned in quarterly results…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad was launched last April and sold three million units in 80 days. Apple sold 7.33 iPads in its fiscal first quarter. There are a number of reports…
The leading online music streaming service in Europe, Spotify, is reportedly in line to get an injection of $100 million in venture funding as it seeks to launch its service in the…