- Apple's IPad Requires Buyers to Take `Leap of Faith' After Failed Tablets Apple Inc., looking to succeed where rivals like Microsoft Corp. failed, is betting that consumers are finally ready for tablet computers, even if they have to do without some features.
- Stock Traders Sleep, Bond Markets Work as U.S. Jobs Report Hits on Holiday Tom Schrader, co-head of U.S. stock trading at Stifel Nicolaus & Co., plans to sleep in tomorrow. That’s not an option for all of his bond-market colleagues, said William Heinzerling, the firm’s head of fixed income.
- Ukraine, Nigeria Beating BRIC Countries as Mobius Says Rally Hasn't Ended Stocks in the smallest developing markets are beating their larger peers by the most in almost five years and Templeton Asset Management Ltd.’s Mark Mobius says they will keep rallying as consumer demand picks up.
- Harvard Twins Who Sued Facebook Now Take on Cambridge in 156th Boat Race Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss took on Facebook Inc. as Harvard students when social networking was still new. Now, they’re taking on one of the oldest challenges in sports.
- Matador Is Spain's Hottest Ticket as Protestors Seek Ban on Bullfighting Bullfighter Jose Tomas Roman is staging what protesters hope is a last stand for his bloody trade.
- How Lou Lucido Helped AIG Lose $35 Billion With CDOs Made by Goldman Sachs Joseph Cassano insisted American International Group Inc. would be fine.
- House Flippers in U.S. Rush Bums Off Courthouse Steps in Pursuit of Deals During the U.S. housing boom, even amateur investors could buy and sell a property within a couple of months and turn a profit. Today there’s nothing amateur about house flipping.
- IPhone-Weary Local TV Broadcasters Fight U.S. Regulators to Keep Airwaves TV broadcasters are getting ready for a fight over a U.S. government attempt to redistribute airwaves and help wireless carriers cope with a surge in traffic from bandwidth-guzzling devices like the iPhone.
- Electric Car Demand Means Polypore's Battery Parts Outpace Wind and Solar Polypore International Inc., which makes one of the key components of electric-car batteries, is climbing faster than most alternative energy stocks this year as investors bet on a global shift to low-polluting automobiles.
- Volkswagen Said to Speed Up Phaeton Revamp to Target Chinese Millionaires Volkswagen AG is speeding up a facelift of the $88,000 Phaeton sedan in time to unveil the model at the Beijing auto show next month and target China’s millionaires, said two people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg Daily News 1st April 2010
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