Media Digest (4/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will begin to ship the new version of its iPhone in September (Reuters)

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) both posted strong earnings (Reuters)

A drop in Japan exports shows that its business problems may be long-lived (Reuters)

Brent crude moved back above $122 (Reuters)

Gold reached a new high and silver a 31-year top (Reuters)

Apple may tell investors that margins will be compressed by a shortage of parts due to the Japan earthquake (Reuters)

The Motorola Bionic phone will launch a quarter late during this summer (Reuters)

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) had a weak response to the release of its Playbook tablet (Reuters)

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will spin off its $5 billion private equity operation (Reuters)

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and ICE raised their offer for NYSE (NYSE: NYX) and pressed for negotiations (Reuters)

China has begun work to make the yuan a more widely-used international currency (WSJ)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Intel earnings showed that sales of hardware have improved (WSJ)

AES has agreed to buy DPL for $3.5 billion (WSJ)

Local governments raise less debt now that austerity programs cut needs (WSJ)

NRG Energy will not move ahead with plans to build two nuclear reactors (WSJ)

Major airlines will report losses due to high fuel prices and bad weather (WSJ)

Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCU signed a new deal with the NHL (WSJ)

Seagate will buy Samsung’s hard drive business (WSJ)

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will put $1 billion into Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) to use its Wimax network (WSJ)

Housing starts stayed low (WSJ)

The number of off-shore oil inspectors is growing slowly (WSJ)

The Eurozone economy has expanded more quickly than expected (WSJ)

Portugal’s opposition will move ahead with plans to set bailout terms (WSJ)

GE’s (NYSE: GE) SeaCo received several bids for its sale (WSJ)

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) results show it is not participating in the increase in online advertising (WSJ)

The EU expects all online businesses to be treated the same by carriers (WSJ)

Hedge fund assets moved above $2 trillion according to Hedge Fund Research Inc (WSJ)

Floating solar farms will probably expand (NYT)

Toyota (NYSE: TM) will drop production for six weeks (NYT)

Obama said the US is close to cutting its deficit has he reacted to S&P’s comments about US debt (FT)

The net at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is expected to drop by half (Bloomberg)

The Justice Department may examine a marriage of NYSE and Nasdaq (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre