Media Digest 3/26/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, UPS is launching a service that will allow customers to re-route packages while they are in transit.

Reuters writes that Intel (INTC) has made a final decision to build at $2.5 billion plant in China.

Reuters also reports that Reuters (RTRSY) and CME will launch a global forex trading platform.

Reuters also writes that Porsche has increased its stake in VW to almost 31 %.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Citigoup may be ready to fire 15,000 employees and take a $1 billion charge.

The Wall Street Journal writes that bare metal stents do not reduce heart attacks in patients with chronic chest pain who are bing managed by medication.

The WSJ reports that IBM (IBM) is releasing a new chip prototype chip using optical connections that increases data moving among chips by as much as 8x.

The WSJ also reports that Boeing, burned in the last big build-up of jet orders, is increasing capacity slowly.

Several large drug companies are working on a competitor to Plavix, a drug from Bristol-Myers and Sanofi-Aventis.

The New York Times writes that a drop in ad revenue this year has put newspapers in a difficulat position again.

The New York Times reports that heart drug Natrecor from Johnson & Johnson did not work in the population used for a study of the medication.

FT reports that Twitter, a new tech company, allows users to blog from cell phones.

The FT also reports that Saudi petrochemcial company Sabic is putting together a $12 billion bid for GE plastics.

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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