Media Digest 4/17/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, GM (GM) will being to source more car parts from India. The company is also aiming to have a 10% market share in automotive sales in the country.

Reuters wirtes that Adobe (ADBE) is considering buying back shares instead of making more acquisitions.

Reuters reports that GM’s minivan joint venture in China is targeting 20% growth this year to maintain the No.1 position in the market.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Time Warner (TWX) management is considering cutting its stake in Time Warner Cable in the face of competition from the internet.

The WSJ reports that Intelsat, the large commercial satellite company, is for sale and could bring $6 billion from private equity interests.

The WSJ also writes that an effort by Cerberus to buy auto parts company Delphi cannot make progress because of resistance from the UAW to wage cuts.The standstill could ultimately hurt the chances that the hedge fund would buy Chrysler (DCX).

The WSJ writes that Intel (INTC) will begin to put multiple functions on its chips. These systems-on-a-chip products are aimed at taking more share from AMD (AMD).

The WSJ also reports that growth in wireless income is helping AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) offset drops in their traditional wireline businesses.

According to The New York Times, Yahoo! (YHOO) is expanding its effort to sell advertising for online versions of newspapers by adding 264 new papers.

FT writes that the head of Sony (SNE) said that Playstation 3 sales in Europe are doing exceedingly well.

Barron’s reports that Amazon (AMZN) wants to grow its business of providing back-end services to internet firms.

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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