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A Nintendo Resurrection As 3DS Sales Soar

Nintendo appears ready to prove that there are second lives for game console companies. The firm claims that first day sales of its new 3DS were the greatest for any handheld device in the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Consumer morale and home prices dropped sharply according to two surveys (Reuters) Gold and oil rose on concerns about Libya and the movement in equities (Reuters) The new chief of Twitter wants the site…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Off-exchange traded fund BATS will go public to challenge NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has take a sex bias case against it to the Supreme Court (Reuters)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Facebook may hire the former White House press secretary Gibbs (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will reopen stores it had to shutter in Japan (Reuters) Jobs may be the lagging indicator for a recovery again…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

The Federal Reserve will hold press conferences four times a year. (Reuters) In 2006, Fannie Mae was warned about abuses in the foreclosure process. (WSJ) The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad will go on sales…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

The head of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) said that an ex-director leaked confidential information. (Reuters) The prime minister of Portugal stepped down as his austerity plan was rejected by Parliament. (Reuters) Best Buy…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Japan’s markets fell on concerns about contaminated drinking water (Reuters) The US has stopped imports from the area around Japan’s nuclear disaster (Reuters) The damage to Japan could cost $300 billion (Reuters) Officials of…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/22/2011)

Japan may need to work with the G7 to keep the yen low. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) factories and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) expansion plans were hurt by the earthquake’s aftermath. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE:…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says the Japan disaster is a buying opportunity for companies based there (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (Reuters)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Media Digest (3/18/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) cut 5% of the employees in its trading operation (Reuters) Congress added another stop gap budget bill to take the federal government’s funding through April 8 (Reuters) Brent crude…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 16 years ago

Daily IPO Outlook: FriendFinder Wants IPO, Again (FFN)

Porn and adult social networking   FriendFinder Networks Inc. has applied to come public again. The company has said that it has applied to list under “FFN” for its ticker on NASDAQ.  FriendFinder hired Imperial…

Jon C. Ogg · 16 years ago