American Physicians Capital, Inc. (ACAP) announced a net income of $11.0 million or $1.30 per diluted common share for the second quarter of 2009. Earnings surpassed both Zacks’ as well as the Street’s consensus of $1.09 per share. This compares to net income of $11.0 million, or $1.11 per share last year.
Direct written premiums were [...]
What may appear to be a sprint to fix (where is SNL's Keenan Thompson's Mr. Fix-It when the news industry so badly needs his exhortation?) the press is really much more a marathon. And many of us feel like we've been running it for a long time already.
What's important is getting quickly beyond that first edition we've all been trained to concentrate on and onto the infinite editions that we and our audiences can now create using the journalism already created. More knowledge, more products and more sources of revenue. That's a new virtuous circle worth taking a spin around.
You got your East Coast news. You got your West Coast news. Something about the cratering US financial system going on out there on the isle of Manhattan, sources tell me. Meanwhile, here on the Left Coast, it's round 74 of Google and Yahoo. GooglyHoo is giving lots of people a case of the hives, an itching reaction in search of a rash. The latest scratcher is the World Association of Newspapers. Today, it denounced the proposed Google/Yahoo search "cooperation"...
WITH RESPECT TO THE US’ GDP GROWTH, THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH SEES A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN ECONOMIC ACTITIVY SPREAD ACROSS THE ECONOMY, WHICH WILL LAST MORE THAN A FEW MONTHS - WSJ - According to Robert Hall, economist at Stanford University, US economic data that has been reported provide (...)
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