Media Digest (11/6/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Thousands of Greeks protest austerity measures. (Reuters)

A U.S. judge rejects a patent lawsuit between Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). (Reuters)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will change the design of the Cadillac to boost sales in China. (Reuters)

President John Williams of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank says easing helped the economy without negative side effects. (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) launches an aggressive marketing program for Halo 4. (Reuters)

The European Union and European Central Bank are at odds over how the bailout of Greece should work. (WSJ)

Earnings show that BMW continues to do well despite a rise in expenses. (WSJ)

Suzuki will leave the U.S. car market. (WSJ)

Nissan cuts forecasts because of trouble between China and Japan. (WSJ)

Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) loses subscribers. (WSJ)

Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) shares fall 22% after it offers a weak earnings forecast. (WSJ)

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) sets a shareholder rights provision to block Carl Icahn. (WSJ)

EU regulators says the United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) takeover of TNT caused anti-competitive problems. (WSJ)

UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) restructured its investment bank (NYT)

Fund managers believe that the two presidential candidates have done little to discuss the fiscal cliff. (FT)

The International Monetary Fund expresses concern about France’s industrial sector. (FT)

EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn says the alliance must set a Greek bailout immediately. (Bloomberg)

U.K. October retail sales drop. (Bloomberg)

Apple eventually may drop Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ: INTC) chips for its own. (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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