Media Digest 2/22/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Obama plans to pressure health insurance prices as part of new reforms. Reuters: A Toyota (TM) memo shows the company worked to keep the costs of one of its…
Reuters: Obama plans to pressure health insurance prices as part of new reforms. Reuters: A Toyota (TM) memo shows the company worked to keep the costs of one of its…
Updated throughout the day. Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) and Myriad Genetics Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) buyout rumors on options trading (3:45 PM EST). BioHealthInvestor.com says caveat emptor! Two schools in China are being…
Updated throughout the day. Apple (AAPL) may have a deal with book publishers to sell e-books for $9.99. (NYTimes) Greece may issue a 10-year bond next week with a value of $6.8…
Amazon’s (AMZN) e-reader business which fuels sales of its Kindle e-reader is supposed to be in trouble. The e-commerce operation has charged $9.99 for many of the e-books it sells, which has helped the…
Reuters: US regulators are looking at steering problems on the Toyota (TM) Corolla. Reuters: Greece says it is not seeking EU taxpayers’ money. Reuters: Gold fell on an IMF sale. Reuters: US state…
Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) share of the e-book market will go from 90% to 35% over the next five years. At least that is what Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang claims, according to The…
By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire After thwarting the efforts of biographers in the past, Apple’s exalted CEO is finally giving in. Steve Jobs will collaborate on an authorized biography written by…
RIM (RIMM) maker of the iconic Blackberry smartphone, warned that bandwidth has started to become scarce in markets like the US. It would make sense. The 3G high-speed infrastructure which was built over a…
The Barcelona annual telecom meet-up has given Microsoft (MSFT) the chance to unveil its new Window Mobile 7 software. It has also given 24 wireless carriers that chance to unveil a product…
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Reuters: Barclays (NYSE:BCS) earned $18 billion, was more than forecast. Reuters: The Eurozone gave Greece 30 days to show progress on its deficit. Reuters: The number of accident claims involving Toyota (NYSE:TM)…
The Apple (AAPL) Apps store has downloaded more than three billion software applications to iPhone and iPod touch devices. Programmers have created more than 150,000 products for the e-commerce operation. The App…
Reuters: Japan GDP rose by 1.1% in the fourth quarter. Reuters: EU officials are pressing Greece to cut its budget. Reuters: Twenty four telecom operators will open a store to compete with Apple’s…
Updated throughout the day. Donald Trump will bid for the World Trade Center site (NYPost) Supporters of the UK’s “Robin Hood” tax say that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) influenced a poll on the…
Updated throughout the day. The Fed is in talks with money market funds to see if they will help to take $1 trillion out of the financial system (Bloomberg) Apple (AAPL) has…