Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/14/2009) (WMT)(S)(RBS)(MSFT)(AIG)(LINTA)

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Updated 12.02 PM EST:  Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) will have a national roll-out of its “no contract” cellular service which could put sales pressure on Sprint (NYSE:S) (Reuters)

Updated 9.23 AM EST:  Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE:NWS) and John Malone’s Liberty Media (NASDAQ:LINTA) are interested in GE’s NBCU  (Reuters & CNBC)

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is shipping versions of its 3Gs iPhone with alterations to fight back at hackers.  (iClarified)

RBS (NYSE:RBS) may sell 300 branches.  (FT)

The head of AIG’s (NYSE:AIG) International Lease Finance aircraft leasing firm, Steven Udvar-Hazy, may buy $2 billion in planes from the huge insurance firm to start his own company.  (Bloomberg)

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) in interested in NBC Universal because it thinks it can buy the company well below its value because of GE’s (NYSE:GE) desperation to exit the business. Vivendi is playing hardball on the price of its 20% stake in NBCU (NYPost).

Net neutrality and the rise in the transfer of large data files will make the internet collapse (Ars Technica)

Former employees of Citadel Investment Group will start their own hedge fund  (WSJ)

The release of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 7 could push up Apple’s Mac sales.  (Fortune)

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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.

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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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