Michelin Man Meets Stonehenge to Birth an Olympic Rock Star. Is that really a Wall Street Journal headline?
Sadistic finance article of the day: “Europe’s monetary union has become of instrument of deflation torture.” Yes, always leave it up to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to come up with the uplifting angle.
Remember what we were saying about deep-water drilling? Schlumberger says it’s driving the Smith acquisition (Wall Street Journal).
Toyota cited $100 million savings after limiting recall (New York Times). Oops.
Geithner: independent consumer agency needed (Reuters). Yes, creating more spineless bureaucracies will fix our problems.
Lowe’s grows quarterly profit (Triangle Business Journal). It turns out that people still need to buy light bulbs and house plants, after all.
Carl Icahn seeks four seats on the genzyme board (New York Times). Is Carl Icahn the kind of guy who also makes 4 trips to the salad bar?
Experts close on Google hackers (Financial Times).
Apple removes over 5,000 apps (Apple Insider). Cries of hypocrisy abound. Can you believe the yanked the “Wobble iBoobs” app?
Facebook has acquired a Malaysian company called Octazen Solutions (TechCrunch). No, I didn’t just make that up.