Heard on Twitter: Latest Market Buzz

Even if you are still getting your news from a printed newspaper, you’ve heard about Twitter, the personal sound bites and observations that folks blast through the ether to friends and followers. With our new column, Twitter Beat, we will sort through the most interesting business chatter so you don’t have to. We will introduce you to the smartest market watchers who are offering real-time information, analysis, commentary—some of whom you may want to follow on your own. Check in here every Friday for best, and sometimes worst, tweets of the previous seven days.

On the chattering classes mind this week: Rupert Murdoch's fight with Google, the HP-3Com deal, finance-industry reform and why CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow should stick to stock talk. Here’s SmartMoney’s roundup.

Dr. John Rutledge
Head of Rutledge Capital, tax policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan
http://twitter.com/johnrutledge

 Greaat chart - unemployment rate by education level. show it to your kids. Tell them to stay in school. http://yfrog.com/e6y6yj

Tom Foremski
Journalist, runs web site Silicon Valley Watcher
http://twitter.com/tomforemski

 Here's an easy prediction: GOOG will announce it will pay for News Corp content like its AP deal -- http://bit.ly/2xSSBT
(On announcement that Rupert Murdoch plans to block Google from searching and linking to News Corp.-owned Web sites)

GM Blogs 
General Motors' official Twitter feed
http://twitter.com/GMblogs

 I took this job with a serious level of skepticism. 5 months later, it's giving way 2 optimisim [sic] little by little- E.Whitacre
(Quoting CEO Ed Whitacre, during speech at Texas Lutheran University)

Ivanka Trump 
Businesswoman, daughter of real estate mogul Donald Trump
http://twitter.com/IvankaTrump

 "Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” Sam Walton 

Rosabeth Kanter 
Professor, Harvard Business School; author of SuperCorp
http://twitter.com/RosabethKanter

 Just because this is a time of transformation doesn't mean that it's easy to sell transformational ideas 
(On U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's financial reform bill, released Tuesday)

Bill George
Former CEO, Medtronic
http://twitter.com/Bill_George

Congress considering bill to limit bank size to mitigate risk. What matters isn't size, but risk management and leverage ratios