Media Digest 11/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: UAE shares fell on Dubai debt problem news. Reuters: The Treasury will meet with mortgage companies to try to get them to accelerate loan modifications. Reuters: Holiday shoppers did not use credit cards as much as in the past.…
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Reuters: The Treasury will meet with mortgage companies to try to get them to accelerate loan modifications.
Reuters: Holiday shoppers did not use credit cards as much as in the past.
Reuters: Shoppers are increasing the use of e-commerce.
Reuters: Shoppers spent less per person on Black Friday than a year ago.
Reuters: Beijing Auto may have an interest in Saab.
Reuters: Regulators have made a list of systematic risk firms.
WSJ: A rift may be forming between Dubai and the UAE central bank.
WSJ: Some failed banks cannot be sold at any price.
WSJ: More shoppers went to stores over the Thanksgiving weekend, but they spent less.
WSJ: Higher interest rates are threatening bank stocks.
WSJ: More companies are becoming vertical through acquisitions.
WSJ: Wall St. traders are beginning to spend large sums of money again.
WSJ: The store debut of the Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) Nook has been delayed.
WSJ: US coal miners expect to cut output.
WSJ: AOL plans to mass produce content using huge numbers of articles produced by outsiders.
WSJ: Samsung handset sales are on track to exceed expectations.
WSJ: Shopping via mobile phone is picking up.
WSJ: The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone went on sales in South Korea.
WSJ: R&D spending is staying strong.
WSJ: Lenovo will by a mobile handset company.
WSJ: More economists do not expect a strong recovery raising the question of how that will effect equity prices.
WSJ: Credit ratings agencies are producing more independent reports.
WSJ: Following Twitter is helping some companies predict near term sales.
WSJ: More companies are outsourcing idea creation.
NYT: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is working to gain ground on Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) in Japan.
FT: India GDP growth was 7.9% in the third quarter.
FT: There may be a bid for AIG’s (NYSE:AIG) aircraft leasing business.
FT: GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) will cut drug prices for developing countries.
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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
