Media Digest 3/12/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Media

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: March 12, 2010 4:00 am

Last Updated: March 12, 2010 5:58 am

Reuters. Obama will nominate Yellen to be Fed vice chair.

Reuters: China told Obama to leave yuan policy to its government.

Reuters: A Chinese minister said the nation could not keep up fast industrial growth

Reuters: Toyota (TM) says discounts are helping sales.

Reuters: Summers says the US is close to job growth.

Reuters: Democrats are closer to a healthcare bill.

WSJ: Low shipping capacity is hurting US exports.

WSJ: The final review of the Lehman collapse blamed the company’s management, E&Y, and several banks.

WSJ: AIG (AIG) workers will give up $45 million after talks with Feinberg.

WSJ: The head of GMAC may get no cash comp this year.

WSJ: Disney (DIS) studios will focus on Marvel heroes.

WSJ: Google (GOOG) is near a deal on Chinese censoring.

WSJ: The US may put black boxes in cars.

WSJ: Motorola (MOT) will put Microsoft (MSFT) Bing on some of its phones.

WSJ: Google (GOOG) will stop censoring its web results in China.

NYT: Rising seed prices are drawing scrutiny for regulators.

NYT: Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) allow advertisers to buy ads in the second it takes for a web page to load.

NYT: Lexus has avoided the image problems of parent Toyota.

FT: Google faces regulatory hurdles on its purchase of AdMob.

NYT: Luxury cars helped profits at BMW and VW.

NYT: The EU and US are arguing over hedge fund regulation.

NYT: The Senate Democrats will move forward on finance reform.

WSJ: The unintended acceleration problems Audi had in 1982 are a template for Toyota (TM)

WSJ: Some retailers are seeing a return of their pricing power.

WSJ: Economists credit the Fed with salvaging the economy during the credit crisis.

WSJ: Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) have ramped up their war for server chip market share

WSJ: Labor deadlines are hurting the industry’s recovery.

WSJ: Americans cut debt in the fourth quarter of last year.

FT: Changes in takeover defenses will help increase hostile deals.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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