Media Digest 6/7/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, same-store sales at Costco (COST) were up 7% to May.

Reuters writes that the game unit of Sony (SNE) is cutting jobs in the US and Europe as the PS3 faces poor sales.

Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) and LG of Korea have entered a patent cross-licensing agreement.

The Wall Street Journal writes that one of the executive who took two Philadelphia papers private last year is interested in talking to Dow Jones (DJ).

The Wall Street Journal also writes that Vodafone (VOD) investors are pressuring the company for a restructuring plan to raise its stock price.

The Wall Street Journal also reports that the FDA wants a warning on the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) drug Avandia warning about risks of heart failure.

The WSJ also reports that several large cell phone companies are launching handsets to compete with the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.

The New York Times writes that CEOs of the Big Three seem to be making progress in getting Congress to be less aggressive in raising emission standards.

The FT writes that Ford (F) showed advances in vehicle quality in the latest JD Power survey.

Barron’s writes that BankRate (RATE) and The Knot (KNOT) may be takeover targets by larger internet companies.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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