Media Digest 10/15/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) and other large banksare planning to create a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets.

Reuters writes that Medtronic (MDT) is suspending sales of a heart devices that may have caused some deaths.

Reuters writes that Ford (F) believes it will sell Jaguar and Rover within the next two months.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Gabelli funds will vote against a plan to take Cablevision (CVC) private.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Chrysler will try to get a piece of China’s small car market.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Broadcom (BRCM) has invented a chip that could bring down the cost of making mobile handsets.

The New York Times writes Nokia (NOK) has started shipping its N95 with 8 Gigabyte memory.

The New York Times writes that Sallie Mae (SLM) is seeking to speed up the trial involving private equity groups that dropped a bid to buy the company.

The New York Times writes that six banks will start selling today at least $11 billion in debt to finance the buyout of the Texas energy giant TXU, one of the largest LBOs of the year.

The FT writes that Carl Icahn may make another run at Motrola (MOT).

The FT also reports that Pfizer (PFE) is leading big pharma into social networking.

CNN Money writes that Airbus will deliver its first A380 superjumbo today.

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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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