Media Digest (10/23/012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) soon will release its mini iPad. (Reuters)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) delivers better-than-expected earnings and its CEO says the firm will move aggressively into mobile. (Reuters)

ARM Holding PLC’s (NASDAQ: ARMH) third-quarter profit rises on demand for its chips. (Reuters)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) says the Kindle Five HD was its top-selling item. (Reuters)

Very low interest rates hurt bank profits. (WSJ)

Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) CEO Bob McDonald, already under pressure, will announce third-quarter results that may determine his job. (WSJ)

Shares of Monster Beverage Corp. (NASDAQ: MNST) are hurt by news of an FDA investigation into deaths cause by the company’s products. (WSJ)

Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) new Xbox probably will have the ability to connect to smartphones. (WSJ)

Distressed debt investors begin to consider buying Greek paper. (WSJ)

A battle between bank regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission over the Volcker rule could delay putting some programs into effect. (WSJ)

The fiscal cliff could hurt bank borrowing by corporations. (WSJ)

Farm land prices continue to rise rapidly. (NYT)

A sputtering Chinese economy slows U.S. exporters. (NYT)

Large tech companies, including Amazon and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), begin programs to move to a mobile world. (NYT)

Some experts believe that if Romney designates China as a currency manipulator it could break down trade between the two countries. (NYT)

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) raises $5 billion to balance concerns about the effects the fiscal cliff may have on the company. (FT)

Ad spending on mobile devices remains very low. (FT)

The European Union’s permanent bailout fund faces a challenge in the EU Court of Justice about whether the plan violates current laws. (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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