Stocks: (NYT)(NVDA)(SI)(MSFT)(TRB)(CSCO)According to Reuters, Lenovo, the largest Chinese PC company posted disappointing earnings with a 16% slide in net income.Reuters writes that Siemens quarter beat forecasts by new orders dropped.Reuters also writes that Cisco’s quarterly profits and sales surpassed Wall St’s expectation.Reuters reports that Microsoft will pay Universal Music for each Zune multimedia player, posing a threat to the iPod economic model.The New York Times writes that a group of billionaires is trying to buy the Los Angeles Times from The Tribune Company.The New York Times reports that Nvidia’s new chip moves PCs closer to having supercomputer functions.The New York Times also reports that profits were up at News Corporation fueled by Fox and its cable properties.The Wall Street Journal reports that Morgan Stanley Investments is putting additional pressure on The New York Times Company to move to one class of shares which would break the founding family’s hold on the company.Douglas A. McIntyer
Media Digest 11/9/2006 Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times
Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.
McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
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