Media Digest (4/25/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Investing

Published: April 25, 2013 6:40 am

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) will make a $100 billion offer to Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) for the part of Verizon Wireless that it does not own. (Reuters)

Spanish financial firm Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) shares are battered after poor earnings. (Reuters)

Spain’s unemployment rate in the first quarter is 27.2%. (Reuters)

Competition in Asia hurts Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) earnings. (Reuters)

Low supplies of the Samsung Galaxy S4 may hurt sales. (Reuters)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will make its first bond offering. (WSJ)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will soon release a streaming video service. (WSJ)

Fiat may buy the part of Chrysler its does not own and them launch an IPO of the U.S. company. (WSJ)

Bad European Union sales hurt earnings of the region’s big car companies — Daimler, Volkswagen and Peugeot. (WSJ)

Profits on new locations may not match those that already exist as Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) expands. (WSJ)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will stream old episodes of Saturday Night Live in an effort to boost revenue from video ads. (NYT)

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) wins shareholder support for its new executive pay policy. (FT)

South Korea’s GDP expansion in the first quarter is 0.9%, a two-year high. (FT)

Central banks buy equities because of low bond yields. (Bloomberg)

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