Archive for the 'Magazines' Category
Girls Gone Wild, the magazine — look out, Playboy (PLA)
The dysfunctional state of the mainstream magazine industry is apparently not ample to dissuade the purveyors of the Girls Gone Wild video franchise from flashing the newsstand. According to Nate Ives of Advertising Age, Girls Gone Wild magazine will soon hit the streets with $9.99 worth of exub…
Media World: Rupert Murdoch will get the final laugh on his many critics
Super Tuesday had a super payoff for CNN.
The Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) cable channel attracted 3.6 million viewers, beating out Fox News Channel which had 3.5 million and MSNBC — which I prefer — which had 2.1 million viewers amoung 8 and 11 p.m., according to The Los Angeles Times. Before …
SEC looks to simplify mutual fund disclosures
The Securities & Exchange Commission is looking for investor input on its new ideas for improving mutual fund disclosures.
According to the SEC, the purpose of the new proposals is to supply investors “with concise data about mutual funds that is easier to use than the mutual fund prospec…
Bill Gross suggests municipal bonds
In the world of fixed income, as in the world of markets in general, there is nearly no one whose predictions are worth listening to.
Bill Gross is an exception and, in an interview with Kiplinger, he gave his bleak outlook on the economy and a tip for investors: We are probably in a recessio…
Newspaper wrap-up: Google looks to torpedo Microsoft’s tender for Yahoo!
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MAJOR PAPERS:
The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. and European antitrust regulators are expected to carefully scrutinize Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) $44.6B tender for Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO), which could possibly delay a completed deal for up six months.
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Newspaper wrap-up: IBM-AMD merger rumor is ’speculation gone amok’
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Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LCAPA) filed a lawsuit in Delaware against IAC/InterActiveCorp’s (NASDAQ: IACI) Barry Diller in an attempt to block Mr. Diller from completing the spinoffs of several units on terms that could dilute Liberty’s voting capability; the suit pursues a…
Can Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia be saved?
Fortune reports it has learned that the company “has held recent talks with two prominent tastemakers, the fashion desi…
Newspaper wrap-up: EBay CEO Whitman may be on her way out
PAPERS:
With shares of eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) down 17% from their highs in 2007, CEO Meg Whitman is more than likely on her way out, TheDeal Blogs speculated.
According to sources, International trade Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) is in advanced talks to acquire the Israeli start-up XI…
Newspaper wrap-up: WaMu under SEC investigation
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (NYSE: MER), under intense pressure from billions of dollars of mortgage write-downs may get about a $5B capital investment from Temasek Holdings, a Singapore state-owned investment firm, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The WSJ additionally reported …
John Bogle on the market, subprime, career advice and real estate
There are a handful or commerce commentators who are worth dropping everything and listening to, and I would put Vanguard Group founder John Bogle at the top of my list.
So that means everyone should drop everything and go read this interview he did with Fortune.
Always logical, some of Bo…
Newspaper wrap-up: Apple in talks with DoCoMo for iPhone in Japan
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Looking to enter the Japanese market, sources familiar with the matter said that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs recently met with NTT DoCoMo Inc (NYSE: DCM) to discuss a deal to offer its iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) is in talks w…
Remaining options for fixing the mortgage mess
With the first Bush Administration bailout attempt likely dead after Citigroup (NYSE: C) decided to put its troubled SIV assets onto its books killing the need for the Super SIV, you may be wondering what else the Bush Administration and Congress have up their sleeves to try to fix that mortgage…
Money Winners of 2007: Oprah Winfrey remains media queen
Remember how they used to say that the sun never set on the British empire. The same goes for talk show queen Oprah Winfrey’s empire.
In an era when most media conglomerates struggle, Winfrey has the midas touch, which is why her endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama m…
Newspaper wrap-up: UPS may face post-holiday slump
MAJOR PAPERS:
While United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) is preparing for the busiest day of the year, high costs and a slowing economy are set to present big challenges for the Atlanta company once the holiday season is by, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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BusinessWeek’s “Ins…
