5:07am ET
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Yahoo! (YHOO) At $20
Last October, Yahoo! (YHOO) fell to $23 on concerns that Q4 advertising would be weak. It was. The last time Yahoo! traded below $20 was late 2003, but at the end of…
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Media Digest 6/25/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) made changes in it advertising sales management, pushing out its head of US sales. Reuters writes that the CEO of DaimlerChryler (DCX) see a good future for…
7:13am ET
Investing
Will Pearson (PSO) Sell The Financial Times?
According to the Observer of London, many Pearson (PSO) shareholders want the company to sell the Financial Times. They believe that the paper is worth well over $1 billion, perhaps based on…
7:18pm ET
Media
IS GE REALLY Paying Paris Hilton $1 Million??? (GE, NWS, PLA)
Today was a bit of an oddball day in true media. It was all over the media after the New York Post, a News Corp. (NWS-NYSE) company, reported that General Electric (GE-NYSE)…
3:55pm ET
Media
MySpace Founder Makes An Offer for Dow Jones; Board Takes Over Negotiations
The entire process to buy Dow Jones (DJ) has been strange one. In fact, it has been more than strange and just got even stranger. The reports are that the board of…
Douglas A. McIntyre 7:24am ET
Investing
MySpace Gets Into Instant Message Business
Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), MSN, and AOL are already in the instant messaging business, so it would seem that there is not any room left there. But News Corp’s (NWS) does not…
11:09am ET
Media
Newspaper Carnage Continues, But…. (NWS, DJ, TRB, MNI, GHS, JRN, NYT, GCI, SSP, BLC, LEE )
There has been a solid recovery in newspaper and media plays in recent weeks, for some obvious merger reasons. But the continuously deteriorating fundamentals in the sector lend a credence that the…
11:54am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Warren Buffett’s Conflict of Interest with Dow Jones (DJ, BRK/A, NWS, TOC, RTRSY)
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A-NYSE) has one serious impediment to getting involved in a buyout of Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) as some speculate could happen at the right price. Back on March 1, 2006 Berkshire…
6:59am ET
Investing
Pre-Market Stock News (May 11, 2007)
(AAPL) Apple’s talks about the Beatles are reportedly close to being settled.(ALL) Allstate is going to stop selling homeowners insurance policies in California.(ALU) Alcatel-Lucent earnings came out, forecasts 10% revenue gains; shares…
10:36am ET
Media
Media Mania After Dow Jones & News Corp. Merger Talk
Stock Tickers: DJ, NWS, RTRSY, TOC, NYT, WPO, SSP, MNI, BLC, LEE, GHS, XFML It looks like almost all media stocks are running on David Faber’s report that Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) is…
10:20am ET
Media
News Corp. & Dow Jones: We Will Control All You See and Hear (NWS, DJ)
CNBC’s David Faber is reporting that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWS-NYSE) has made a $60.00 per share offer to acquire Dow Jones (DJ-NYSE) common stock. Dow Jones shares have just screamed up…
Douglas A. McIntyre