Media Digest 1/28/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Media

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: January 28, 2010 3:57 am

Last Updated: January 28, 2010 5:24 am

Reuters: The Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls grew to 8 million.

Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) is considering selling its real estate unit.

Reuters: Wall St. will fight Obama’s plan for the banking system.

Reuters: Obama said he would push jobs growth.

Reuters: The Senate will vote on Bernanke’s reappointment today.

Reuters: Obama is pushing exports as a key aspect of the recovery.

WSJ: Banks are looking for ways around new pay caps rules and pressure from Congress on compensation.

WSJ: Geithner defended his AIG (NYSE:AIG) actions saying they were essential to saving the credit markets.

WSJ: The Fed was upbeat in the FOMC notes and said it would keep rates low.

WSJ: The German operators of McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) say the company is trying to force them out of contracts.

WSJ: Sovereign debt problems are growing in Portugal and Greece.

WSJ: China will not limit the distribution or use of the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android OS.

WSJ: Nintendo profits dropped 9% in the first nine months of its fiscal year.

WSJ: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) will increase R&D spending.

WSJ: New homes sales dropped in December.

WSJ: Subscriber numbers at NetFlix (NYSE:NFLX) rose.

WSJ: The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad will hurt the ability of cell carriers to hold customers based on their service.

WSJ: Investors are betting that rates will not rise when the Fed ends it $1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage paper.

WSJ: Ford (NYSE:F) may benefit from Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) problems.

NYT: The iPad is positioned between laptops and smartphones.

NYT: Carriers are pushing devices that use a great deal of bandwidth even though these strain their networks.

NYT: Technical snags may delay the start of The Wall Street Journal’s NYC edition.

FT: Barney Frank said the Obama bank overhaul plan needed to become law immediately.

FT: Twitter is working on technology to allow the service to evade censors.

FT: Toyota’s recal spreads to Europe.

Bloomberg: E-mails show that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was favored by regulators.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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