Media Digest 3/6/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Barron’s FT

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According to Reuters, management from Cerberus Capital  met with Chrysler (DCX) about potentially buying the company from Daimler.

Reuters writes that Citigroup (C) has bid $10.75 billion for Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial.

Reuters reports that VW is targeting a 20% market share in China, through its two joint ventures, within two to three years.

Reuters also writes that A&P (GAP) will buy its rival Pathmark (PTMK) for $679 million.

The Wall Street Journal reports that RIM (RIMM) said that options accounting errors would cost the firm $250 in earnings charges.

The WSJ writes that a Wal-Mart (WMT) worker was dismissed for intercepting communications between a PR employee at the company and a reporter at The New York Times.

The WSJ also reports that a Congressional panel is looking into use of stents for purposes outside those set up by the FDA. Boston Scientifc (BSX) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) were asked to submit marketing material and clinical trial data.

The New York Times writes that Microsoft (MSFT) has attacked Google (GOOG) over its use of content with copyrights from other companies. The criticism targeted video and book content.

Barron’s writes that ThinkEquity believes that it may be time to by shares in RIM (RIMM) now that its options probe is behind it.

FT reports that the CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO) received a $25.7 million bonus for 2006.

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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