Media Digest (11/28/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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A new deal to aid Greece may lead eventually to the forgiveness of some of its debt. (Reuters)

The Obama administration decides not to name China as a currency manipulator. (Reuters)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) wins a legal victory over Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) on several patent issues. (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) sells 40 million Windows 8 licenses this month. (Reuters)

Many institutional investors demand to meet company CEOs before they invest. (WSJ)

Virtu Financial may buy Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG). (WSJ)

The head of Autonomy asks Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) to detail charges about accounting irregularities. (WSJ)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) fires the head of its mapping unit after trouble with a product his team built. (WSJ)

Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) will meet about the fate of its CEO. (WSJ)

S&P Case Shiller research shows housing has rebounded the most in several years. (WSJ)

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warns about a sharp slowing of the global economy. (WSJ)

France says it may nationalize a plant that ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) may close. (WSJ)

Online sales for Cyber Monday rise less than last year. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) adds a gift store to take advantage of the number of birthdays it has on file. (WSJ)

Share buybacks likely will increase because they are taxed less than increases in dividends. (WSJ)

The number of U.S. companies that have announced special dividends grows ahead of possible year-end tax increases. (FT)

Several eurozone nations face write-downs of Greek debt. (FT)

The growth rate in the Philippines moves to 7.1%. (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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