Media Digest (8/30/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Media

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: August 30, 2010 4:11 am

Last Updated: August 30, 2010 6:24 am

Reuters: The Bank of Japan eased policy to fight a rise in the yen.

Reuters: Obama said the economy is not growing fast enough.

Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will buy Infineon’s mobile unit for $1.4 billion.

Reuters: The National Association of Business Economists said growth is on the right track.

Reuters: India is meeting on a ban of the Research In Motion (NYSE: RIMM) Blackberry

Reuters: Oil stayed at an eight-day high on the belief the nations will work to resume growth

Reuters: Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) bought social network tool supplier Angstro.

Reuters: Online video arrangements are the critical factor to carriage negotiations between Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC)

Reuters: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is thinking about matching a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) offer for 3Par (NYSE: PAR).

Reuters: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Siemens (NYSE: SI) are considering seeking a private equity investment in their telecom equipment joint venture.

Reuters: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) might sell some Potash (NYSE: POT) assets.

Reuters: Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) made a $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme.

Reuters: Carlyle bought a 51% stake in Brazil’s Scalina.

WSJ: China is moving to export high tech based products to the US.

WSJ: The Justice Department is considering how the Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) bid for the NBCU division of GE (NYSE: GE) could affect online video growth.

WSJ: Revenue collection by the states rose in the second quarter said the the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the University of Albany, State University of New York.

WSJ: Wall St. bonuses are moving higher.

WSJ: Shoppers are doing more buying around their paydays.

WSJ: China said Japanese firms should pay workers at their Mainland operations higher compensation.

WSJ; Regulators from around the world will have trouble reaching an agreement on common bank rules.

WSJ: Governments are closing more hospitals.

WSJ: Congress has begun to target oil drilling regulators.

WSJ: The Commerce Department will like $550 million of imported Chinese aluminum was illegally priced below market.

WSJ: The Oxford English Dictionary may go completely online.

WSJ: VMWare (NYSE: VMW) will make it easier for its products to operate as part of cloud computing systems.

WSJ: The use of the P/E ratio is becoming less important in investing.

WSJ: Fewer households buy life insurance, according to Limra.

WSJ: Wall St. firms may pay bonuses this year to avoid higher taxes on them in 2011.

WSJ: Suits over the Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) bonus payments to Merrill Lynch employees will move forward.

NYT: The risks of deepwater drilling are not carefully regulated.

NYT: China is giving more money to state-owned businesses to help them grow.

NYT: Few people allow themselves to be targeted online.

NYT: Orcale (NYSE: ORCL) and Google Inc. (NYSE: GOOG) are using open source software to compete.

FT: Google’s YouTube plans pay-per-view movies.

FT: Axa cuts its stake in Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS).

FT: A large supply of steel will hurt iron ore prices.

FT: Samsung and Toshiba will push into tablet PCs.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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