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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/28/2009)

Updated regularly throughout the day. Update: Rusal, the world’s biggest aluminum firm, may have an IPO on The Hong Kong…

Media Digest 9/24/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The young and affluent in China may become more active consumers. Reuters:   The G20 is looking to nurture the…

DVD Sales Crushed By Rentals, As Apple (AAPL) And Amazon (AMZN) Rise

DVD sales are flagging and rentals are up, news which is likely to be unwelcome at the major movie studios.…

Twitter, Skype, And The Trouble With Free Internet Services

Twitter has just raised capital at price that values the company at about $1 billion. A collection of private investors…

How Much Higher Can Omniture Bid Fetch? (OMTR, ADBE, MSFT, GOOG, TWX)

Omniture Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR) seems like another niche ad-tech play that has gone on over the recent years, but it…

Blockbuster’s Fate: Dying Store Model May Work (BBI, NFLX, CSTR, TIVO, CMCSA, TWX, AMZN)

Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI) is dying if you read today’s headlines.  Word from most media outlets today is that Blockbuster…

BusinessWeek And The Cowardice Of McGraw-Hill (MHP)

BusinessWeek is losing money, over $40 million last year by some accounts, and more if the publication’s corporate overhead is…

YouTube Joins The Movie Rental Legions

Google’s (GOOG) YouTube may finally come up with a way to raise revenue. It streamed nine billion videos last month,…

Top Analyst Upgrades (CSTR, COST, GOL, GOOG, HAR, LOW, MA, TWX, V, WCRX)

These are the early morning analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Tuesday…

What If Twitter Folds?

Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early…

Time Warner (TWX) Affirms Outlook As Publishing Unit Post A Loss

The good news from Time Warner (TWX) is that it affirmed its earnings outlook for the year. The bad news…

Media Digest 7/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The recession has badly hurt investments in green technologies. Reuters:   Obama called for deeper China ties with the US.…

Rating The Top Twenty Magazine Websites 2009

24/7 Wall St. completed an analysis of newspapers websites for the years 2008 and 2009.  We have added magazines to…

Media Digest 7/20/2008

Yahoo! (YHOO) Holds Huge Edge In Online Gaming: GSN Games, Spil Games, BetaWave

Americans are turning to cheap alternatives to expensive video games by finding interactive games online. These game are usually much…