Media Digest (9/25/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) begins to sell its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan, which puts it into competition with Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE). (Reuters)

Google’s shares trade at a record high. (Reuters)

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) cuts its 2015 forecast because of the rocky economy. (Reuters)

U.S. corn and soy bean supplies may reach an eight-year low. (Reuters)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) introduces new mid-range cellphones. (Reuters)

American Airlines delays, due to a disagreement with pilots, hurt customer relationships. (WSJ)

Germany is concerned about the balance sheets of its banks as the EU crisis continues. (WSJ)

Banks in Norway and Sweden pick up cash moving from banks in troubled neighbors. (WSJ)

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) expands its line of hybrids. (WSJ)

YouTube runs video used by Walt Disney Co.’s (NYSE: DIS) ABC stations. (WSJ)

Germany delays helping Greece and Spain as Merkel faces resistance within her own party. (WSJ)

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) wants to double its mining revenue to $5 billion by 2016. (WSJ)

Annual corporate bond sales in Asia rise above $100 billion for the first time. (WSJ)

The International Monetary Fund says it wants more cuts in the Greek budget. (NYT)

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions moves away from oil regulation plans due to pressure from OPEC and the International Energy Agency. (FT)

Investors put more money into derivative funds. (FT)

Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and OAO Rosneft start to drill near a Russian Arctic waste dump. (Bloomberg)

A study by the University of Minnesota Population Center shows more young people now live with their parents. (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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