Media Digest 5/7/2010
Reuters: Stocks fell in Asia and Europe as the pound and euro fell. Reuters: The GOP’s attempt to kill a consumer watchdog program was not successful. Reuters: The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
Reuters: Stocks fell in Asia and Europe as the pound and euro fell. Reuters: The GOP’s attempt to kill a consumer watchdog program was not successful. Reuters: The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
The rumor mill usually runs into trouble or gets light on Thursday ahead of the crazy “Rumor Friday”… Yet there are still several ongoing and newer issues running around Wall Street and…
One its face, it would seem to be a mismatch. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), two huge global firms which have been notoriously unsuccessful in the smartphone market up against the two companies…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) sold off on news of trouble in Europe. The region is critical to the tech company’s sales. Citigroup (NYSE: C) shares also lost ground. There are concerns about how…
Reuters: The Senate will begin to vote on the financial reform bill. Reuters: Regulators are considering an antitrust case against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reuters: Tensions between Germany and France over the Greek…
Updated throughout the deay. Cost of oil spill could go over $14 billion (CNBC) Apple (NYSE: AAPL) sold over one million iPads in first month (CNBC) Apple could be the target of…
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, a notorious Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bull, estimates 300,000 3G iPads were sold last weekend, its first on the market. This can be added to the one million WiFi-only iPads that…
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Reuters: UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental’s (NYSE: DAL) boards approved a merger. Reuters: Investors are concerned about the Greek rescue package. Reuters: Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) defended Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS)…
The first attempts to market video phones are now 30 years or more old. They were run on residential landlines, weak sisters to the video conferencing just emerging at large companies. But,…
The Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry has not been pulled down from its perch as one of the world leading cellphones by either the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google- (NASDAQ: GOOG) powered…
The US Attorney of the Southern District of Manhattan, home to most prosecutions of Wall St. firms, has begun an investigation into Goldman Sachs Group’s (NYSE: GS) trading to see if any…
WSJ: Warren Buffett intends to discuss his investment in Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) annual meeting. Reuters: Federal authorities have started a criminal probe into Goldman.…
Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will gamble on the smartphone industry with its buyout of Palm (NADSAQ: PALM) Reuters: The oil spill from a BP plc (NYSE: BP) rig is close to shore. Reuters: …
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is the first to take a bite into Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM). Shortly after today’s closing bell, H-P and Palm said they entered into a definitive agreement where HP…