Media Digest 2/14/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is in talks with News Corp (NWS) about an M&A deal but analysts say it is unlikely to work. Reuters writes that Paulson thinks the US economy…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is in talks with News Corp (NWS) about an M&A deal but analysts say it is unlikely to work. Reuters writes that Paulson thinks the US economy…
It is not enough that Nintendo, Microsoft (MSFT), and Sony (SNE) are scratching each other’s eyes out in the game console business. It looks like Apple (AAPL) wants in. Given its new…
There is a recession over on Wall St. Bank where brokerage stocks are down 50% and losses keep mounting. But, a great majority of businesses in the US and Europe are not…
Google (GOOG) always had a problem trying to keep Yahoo! (YHOO) out of the hands of Microsoft (MSFT). The No.1 and No.2 search engine firms would have had 80% of the US…
According to Reuters, GM (GM) offered buy-outs to workers after posting a large Q4 loss. Reuters writes that Warren Buffett offered to insure $800 billion worth of bonds currently insured by monoline…
Rising short interest in tech stocks traded on Nasdaq shows the extent to which investors are willing to bet against the sector. The figures compare shares sold short as of January 31…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) rejected Microsoft’s (MST) bid for the company. Reuters writes that Credit Suisse reduced its write-downs from subprime insrtuments. Reuters writes that RIM (RIMM) had a huge outage…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) share of the US online ad revenue market was 23.7% in Q4. That number fell from Q3, but only by .5%. Research group IDC said that a combination of…
These are not the only analyst calls affecting stocks this morning, but these are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: American Express (NYSE: AXP) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform…
Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO) is about to approach Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) about a tie-up with AOL. That is according to The Times in the UK. And, why not? Almost every other possible…
According to Reuters, Societe Generale will raise almost $8 billion at a large discount to its current stock price. Reuters writes that Hugo Chavez has threatened to seize foreign milk plants in…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board will presently reject a $31 a share buy-out bid from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Wall Street Journal. The group thinks the offer is undervalued and will…
Yahoo! (YHOO) will reject the Microsoft (MSFT) bid to buy the web portal firm. According to The Wall Street Journal after a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined…
The Yahoo! (YHOO) board and management could have done an out-sourcing deal some time ago to license its search business to Google (GOOG). It would probably have picked up some money beyond…
Accorrding to Reuters, GM (NYSE: GM) will have half of its cars running on ethanol by 2012. Reuters writes that Cisco (NASD: CSCO) gave a weak forecast, moving tech shares down. Reuters…