Media Digest (10/24/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The public editor of The New York Times, the flagship of the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), questions the appointment of new CEO Mark Thompson because he ran the BBC during a period in which there was a sex scandal. (Reuters)

Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) cuts 5% of its workforce and closes 20 factories because of the poor economy. (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve will continue to buy bonds even through there are signs of an improving economy. (Reuters)

Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new mini iPad will compete with Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle and Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus 7. (Reuters)

Improvement in Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) mobile revenue helps drive shares higher. (Reuters)

Nintendo’s profits are weak before the release of the new Wii U. (Reuters)

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) says its credit card data base has been hacked. (Reuters)

Mel Karmazin will leave as CEO of Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI). (WSJ)

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) cuts 5% of staff and discontinues work on some games. (WSJ)

The Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) forecast of streaming customer subscribers destroys its stock price. (WSJ)

China becomes that top country in terms of foreign investing in the first half, moving it ahead of the United States for the first time. (WSJ)

Spain says low tax revenue may ruin plans to hit numbers in its new budget. (WSJ)

United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) cuts its sales forecasts. (WSJ)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) raises nearly $1 billion in a bond offering. (WSJ)

UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) may make another round of job cuts. (WSJ)

U.S consumers continue to show some optimism as large companies warn about their futures. (NYT)

Some investors believe the price of the Apple’s mini iPad is too high. (FT)

SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP) hits earnings expectations and raises forecasts because of software demand. (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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