Media Digest 9/2/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Media

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: September 2, 2010 5:09 am

Last Updated: September 2, 2010 6:05 am

Reuters: GM’s IPO road show will begin in November.

Reuters: Costco’s (NASDAQ: COST) August sales rose 7%.

Reuters: Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTV is the latest effort to make a web-connected living room.

Reuters: Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) will focus more on mobile search.

WSJ: Witnesses clashed over the cause of Lehman’s demise.

WSJ: Sony (NYSE: SNE) will try to compete with iTunes.

WSJ: The SEC is looking into canceled trades from the day of the “flash crash.”

WSJ: China will ask cellphone users for their electronic IDs.

WSJ: Sinochem hired HSBC to look at a bid for Potash (NYSE: POT).

WSJ: IBM (NYSE: IBM) said it now makes the world’s fastest mainframe.

WSJ: Petrobras (NYSE: PTR) has agreed to pay Brazil $42 billion to settle an ownership dispute

NYT: Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.

NYT: The IMF warned large developed nations on their debt levels.

FT: Outsourcers say the US is producing too few engineers.

FT: A rise in meat prices may start food price inflation.

Bloomberg: Shares in stocks of emerging market companies are at an all-time high while they have fallen greatly in the developed world

Douglas A. McIntyre

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