Media Digest (2/4/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
February 4, 2013 by Douglas A. McIntyre
Electric cars sales may be hurt as the industry considers hydrogen-powered vehicles. (Reuters)
BlackBerry faces challenges as its tries to move back into India and Indonesia. (Reuters)
Hackers get into 250,000 Twitter accounts. (Reuters)
Third Point, one of Yahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) largest shareholders, sells 11 million shares. (Reuters)
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is very close to a private equity buyout. (Reuters)
Low interest rates force large companies to put more into pensions. (WSJ)
The financial director and general counsel of Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) leaves the company. (WSJ)
HTC announces its margins may drop more as it releases earnings. (WSJ)
Swatch posts impressive numbers and reports that sales should continue to grow. (WSJ)
Fiat expects to buy the portion of Chrysler it does not own as early as 2014. (WSJ)
Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) reports it is considering a buyout offer from Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH), which competes with one from Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). (WSJ)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) attempt to take corporate cloud computing share from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). (WSJ)
Daimler will invest another $870 million in China in an attempt to gain sales in the crowded number one global market for cars. (WSJ)
An Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) parts supplier in China — Foxconn — will set a union vote. (FT)
Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) plans to enter the investment banking industry. (FT)
Panasonic reports a surge in profits after several quarters of trouble. (Bloomberg)
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