Today’s Best Market Rumors (NOK)(PALM)(AAPL)(MHP)(CBS)
September 24, 2009 by Douglas A. McIntyreStrauss Zelnick, former record exec, and former WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz will buy BusinessWeek, (MHP) which was yesterday rumored to be closing. (BW)
Nokia (NOK) will buy travel social network Dopplr for $20 million. (TechCrunch)
CBS (CBS) is not a bankruptcy candidate. (SAI)
A Financial Accounting Standards Board ruling will help Apple (AAPL) earnings, but then again, it won’t. (WSJ)(Barron’s).
Goldman Sachs (GS) may alter compensation packages for PR reasons. (NYPost)
A new and powerful argument for why Nokia would buy Palm (PALM) (Forbes).
Autonomy, the UK search software firm, will be bought by Microsoft (MSFT). (Reuters).
Twitter could raise about $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion with the money coming from T. Rowe Price and private-equity firm Insight Venture Partners. (WSJ).
Douglas A. McIntyre
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