Gannett (GCI) is part of the crumbling newspaper industry. It has not gotten its online properties to nearly match the revenue of its traditional print operations, so the firm is still shrinking…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Reuters: The Senate reform bill gives the Fed broader powers. Reuters: Google (GOOG) says it is still talking to China, but signs point to pull-out. Reuters: Arrow will reject a bid from…
Reuters: Some senators want hearings on the Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) bailouts. Reuters: Toyota (TM) is at work in China on damage control. Reuters: Asia factory output expanded by…
The key to a media business model is the size of the market and the demographic of the consumer. eMarketer is forecasting the number of monthly Internet users in the US will…
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…
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota…
We are hearing more reports about social media combining with email. This has been evolving for a decade or so, and now we have Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reportedly trying to either…
M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began to make…
Reuters: China remains a top investment place for US firms. Reuters: Suzuki sold a stake to VW. Reuters: The Administration will extend TARP until next October. Reuters: The Congressional Oversight Committee said…
Updated throughout the day. Vivendi will get no upfront cash from GE (NYSE:GE) for the sale of its stake in NBCU (Reuters) More that one of the candidates for the Bank of…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will allow online publishers to limit the number of stories that Google News runs from them each day, a victory for some publishers who think that giving away free content is…
News Corp (NYSE:NWS) has made a great deal of the fact that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) News gets a major benefit by running headlines from News Corp properties including The Wall Street Journal and…
Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst is not…
The old media is running out of time. The online editions of The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO), New York Times (NYSE:NYT), and Time, Inc (NYSE:TWX) properties do well, but not well enough to…
