Media Digest (10/25/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

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Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) cuts forecasts. (Reutesr)

Spain will increase the rate at which its helps its regional governments. (Reuters)

The federal government sues Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the amount of $1 billion because of its past mortgage practices. (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs Windows 8 and the Surface tablet to do well to regain much of its lost momentum in hardware and software. (Reuters)

Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) releases a new 4G LTE plan for tablets. (Reuters)

Eighty CEOs write Congress to complain about the need for action to fix tax rates and the federal deficit. (WSJ)

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) sets a partnership to move into mainstream gambling. (WSJ)

Credit Suisse Group A.G. (NYSE: CS) will cut costs again as profits fall. (WSJ)

U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) and Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) give optimistic forecasts. (WSJ)

Charles Scharf, formerly of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), will take over as head of Visa Inc. (NYSE: V). (WSJ)

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi tells the German parliament that his planned bond-buying actions are critical to the financial recovery of the region. (WSJ)

More car companies in Europe cut earnings estimates. (WSJ)

The growth of AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE: T) wireless operation slows down. (WSJ)

The Illinois State Budget Crisis Task Force reports that state funds have been misused, with the result being poor public services. (NYT)

Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) says his firm is prepared to pay as much at $20 billion for a new acquisition. (FT)

Boeing (NYSE: BA) raises its earnings outlook on commercial plane orders. (FT)

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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