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Media Digest 2/25/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   Coca-Cola (KO) is close to buying its largest bottler. Reuters:   Microsoft (NASAQ:MSFT) won court approve to shut down computers that spread spam and viruses. Reuters:   Akio Toyoda (TM) apologized to Congress from problems with Toyotas. Reuters:  …

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Apple iTunes Downloads Pass 10 Billion

Apple (AAPL) iTunes passed 10 billion song downloads yesterday. It is a milestone analysts had been anticipating for the last month. The consumer electronics company celebrated the accomplishment with an odometer on the firm’s home…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Nintendo’s Little iPad Killer

Most of the press Nintendo, the world’s No.1 video game console company, gets is for its Wii machine which has kept a lead in unit sales over the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Media Digest 2/24/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The Fed will defend the breadth of its power before Congress. Reuters:   Hyundai will recall the Sonata because of lock issues. Reuters:   The Bank of Japan says it is ready to act on…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Media Digest 2/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters:   KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share of CICC.

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Media Digest 2/19/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The Fed will try to calm the markets after it raised the discount rate to .75%. Reuters:   The head of Toyota (TM) will go to Congress to testify. Reuters:   The Fed’s action helped…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Good News For Amazon: Apple May Offer Best-Sellers For $9.99

Amazon’s (AMZN) e-reader business which fuels sales of its Kindle e-reader is supposed to be in trouble. The e-commerce operation has charged $9.99 for many of the e-books it sells, which has helped the company keep…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Media Digest 2/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   US regulators are looking at steering problems on the Toyota (TM) Corolla. Reuters:   Greece says it is not seeking EU taxpayers’ money. Reuters:   Gold fell on an IMF sale. Reuters:   US state pension funds…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Media Content’s $64,000 Question–How To Get Paid

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 increase from…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Rick’s Now King of Public Strip Clubs (RICK, VCGH)

Rick’s Cabaret International Inc. (NASDAQ: RICK) is seeing its shares take a breather after earnings.  The news is not just that revenues grew by almost 17% to $20 million, and  that its net income…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

SIRIUS XM Escaping Penny Stock Status (SIRI)

It is not going to be enough to bring back some mega-losses for many multi-year investors, at least not yet, but SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has broken back above the $1.00 mark. …

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago