Media Digest 1/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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AIG (NYSE: AIG) will meet banks to choose those that will handle the sale of the Treasury’s share in the company. (Reuters)

With a split Congress it is less likely that there will be legislation to force China’s hand on yuan valuation. (Reuters)

RealtyTrac said home foreclosures rose above one million for the first time in 2010. (Reuters)

The World Bank said growth in the developed nations is still too low to create .jobs (Reuters)

Chrysler’s latest goal is to raise money for operations and to pay some shareholders. (Reuters)

The World Economic Forum said the greatest risk to the global economy is default on sovereign debt. (Reuters)

News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) would like to sell or spin-out MySpace. (Reuters)

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) says it has given India a solution to access messages to its BlackBerry. (Reuters)

Investors drove up shares in Nvidia (NASDAQ NVDA) due to it move into mobile chips. (Reuters)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Samsung will partner to develop new chips. (Reuters)

ITT Corp. will break itself into three pieces. (Reuters)

Data from the USDA on crops drove up agricultural commodity prices .(WSJ)

The global capital markets are still concerned about Portugal’s debt. (WSJ)

The Treasury will issue some tax refunds through debit cards. (WSJ)

The Congressional Oversight Panel said the Treasury would not get back its entire investment in GM (NYSE: GM).  (WSJ)

Memory chip prices are falling. (WSJ)

Some investors wonder if Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock can hit $1,000. (WSJ)

Illinois prepared for huge tax increases. (WSJ)

Car makers continue to fight rules that would sharply increase vehicle fuel economy. (WSJ)

Detroit auto makers will pressure the UAW on merit pay. (WSJ)

More publishers are inclined to stop selling books to Borders Group. (NYSE: BGP) (WSJ)

Holders of biotech patents are fighting provisions to allow generic competition. (WSJ)

Fuel price may kill airline profits. (WSJ)

Volvo may sell China-made cars in the US. (WSJ)

The FDIC may press new regulation on the pay of bank executives. (WSJ)

Vanguard says the tax advantages of ETFs may be overstated. (WSJ)

An  American Express Publishing and Harrison Group , “Survey of Affluence and Wealth in America”,  shows that the wealthy think the US is still in recession.  (NYT)

ManoftheHouse.com was started by Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) to get men advice on household management. (NYT)

Inflation and corruption still hurt India and other Asian economies (NYT)

The Nielsen IPO will be critical to tell private equity firms if they can use public markets to get back investments. (NYT)

The rise in agriculture prices could shock world economies.(FT)

Portugal banks drew on ECB funds. (FT)

Belief that the global economy is growing may move oil beyond $100. (FT)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) cannot use the term App Store because it is part of the common language of the web. (FT)

EU leaders still face skepticism over the region’s debt. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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.

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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