Media Digest 4/1/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters: Factories in China and India upped production last month.

Reuters:   Asian stocks hit and 11 month high.

Reuters:   General Growth filed a plan to exit bankruptcy.

Reuters:   Reviews praised the Apple (AAPL) iPad for battery life and ease of use.

Reuters:   CEO pay moved lower in 2009.

Reuters:   Publishers are basing their future on an iPad they have not seen.

WSJ:   The iPad is close to being a laptop killer.

WSJ:   The Federal Reserve Bank of New York began to show the toxic assets it bought from Bear Stearns and others.

WSJ:   Cash poor cities are taking on their unions.

WSJ:   The crisis has left many corporate pension funds short of cash and companies will have trouble funding them.

WSJ:   Amazon’s (AMZN) e-book deal mirrors that of the iPad.

WSJ:   The business mode in Japan improved.

WSJ:   RIM (RIMM) missed estimates.

WSJ:   Good news on crop yields hurt prices.

WSJ:   Acer will focus on China and Brazil.

WSJ:   Bond markets are open but stocks closed on Good Friday when the jobs report hits.

WSJ:   Germany and France both plan bank taxes.

WSJ:   Hartford repaid $3.4 billion in TARP aid.

WSJ:   Getting money for start-ups was better than last year, but not by much.

WSJ:   Jet Blue (JBLU) and AMR (AMR) formed an alliance.

WSJ:   Boeing (BA) will book $150 million in health care charges.

WSJ:   CBS (CBS) and ABC plan to stream shows to the iPad.

NYT:   The top 25 hedge fund managers were paid an average of $1 billion each last year.

NYT:   The head for Pfizer (PFE) said health care reform and new drugs would help the firm’s growth.

NYT:   The Fed ended its purchase of mortgage-backed securities.

NYT:   The release of the UBS (UBS) client list is closer with the aid of the Swiss government.

NYT:   Issues over Greece hiding its true deficit continue to cause friction.

FT:   Carmakers said a new deal on steel pricing created a monopoly.

FT:   Jaime Dimon of JPMorgan (JPM) attacked the massive criticism of big banks.

FT:  The Air Force will extend the deadline for bids on its tanker.

FT:   VC firm Kleiner Perkins put aside $100 million for investment in companies that build iPad apps.

Douglas A. McIntyre