Media Digest (9/6/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi will set his bond-buying plan, which may be one of the most critical moments of the EU crisis. (Reuters)

Samsung faces holding customers because Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) offers more services and software with its phones. (Reuters)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will launch a new tablet. (Reuters)

Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola releases three phones with Verizon Wireless. (Reuters)

News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) cuts Rupert Murdoch’s bonus because of the hacking scandal. (Reuters)

New phones from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) that operate on Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) software disappoint investors. (Reuters)

Qantas and Emirates set an alliance to share passengers. (Reuters)

The Glencore-Xstrata deal could still get shareholder approval despite issues of price. (WSJ)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) disagree about how much capital their jointly owned brokerage firm should have. (WSJ)

Apple says it did not give customer IDs to the FBI. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) may be in the early stages of sharply increasing its mobile ad revenue. (WSJ)

Volvo will continue an $11 billion turnaround plan despite early failures in sales. (WSJ)

Greece’s citizens may still stop its government from completing austerity measures. (NYT)

The European Union may put tariffs on Chinese solar part imports. (NYT)

The ECB is unlikely to set a bond yield cap if its decides to buy distressed sovereign paper. (FT)

Gold rises above $1,700 on hopes of ECB action. (Bloomberg)

Unemployment in France rises to 10.2%, a 13-year high, according to Insee. (Bloomberg)

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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