Media Digest 7/21/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   Microsoft (MSFT) is putting more R&D in India.

Reuters:   CIT (CIT) confirmed that it rasied $3 billion.

Reuters:   Bernanke said Fed can control inflation.

Reuters:   California lawmakers agreed to a state budget.

Reuters:   Small business  groups are  seeking help to keep companies afloat.

Reuters:    TI (TXN) profits and outlook beat expectations.

Reuters:   Obama said Wall St. banks have failed to show remorse for their losses.

Reuters:   Investors are looking for more earnings surprises.

Reuters:   Expectations are high for Apple’s (AAPL) earnings.

Reuters:   Halliburton (HAL) profits fell but beat expectations.

WSJ:   Many Swiss banks are declining US deposits in the wake of problems with UBS (UBS).

WSJ:   Deutsche Bank (DB) fired two executives over whether they spied on other managers.

WSJ:   CIT’s fate still rests with regulators.

WSJ:   Executives and other well-compensated employees now receive one-third of all pay in the US.

WSJ:   Yahoo! (YHOO) is expected to launch its homepage as early as today.

WSJ:   The Porsche deal with VW is still facing problems.

WSJ:    Barnes & Noble (BKS) will challenge the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle.

WSJ:   Sony (SNE) has signed a deal with Redbox to supply its films in the distributor’s kiosks.

WSJ:   TD Ameritrade (AMTD) will return hundreds of millions of dollars to customers after settling ARS charges.

WSJ:   Wynn (WYNN) will have an IPO of its Macau assets.

WSJ:   The New York Times (NYT) Boston Globe property will cut wages and benefits.

WSJ:   Morgan Stanley (MS) will be the primary adviser on spin-outs of AIG (AIG) assets.

WSJ:   LG is taking market share from rival cell phone companies.

WSJ:   Toyota (TM) said it lost touch with the US market.

WSJ:   GM has three final bids for Opel.

WSJ:   UnitedHealth (UNH) will buy part of Health Net.

NYT:   Policy markets are trying to revive US manufacturing.

NYT:   Barnes and Noble plans to make itself the world’s largest online bookstore.

NYT:   Congress may back off from large taxes for the rich to fund health care changes.

FT:   Swine flu vaccines are likely to make GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Roche, and Sanofi-Aventis billions of dollars.

Bloomberg:   Summers challenged banks on foreclosures.

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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