Media Digest 11/27/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) is selling up to 4.9 percent of itself for $7.5 billion to the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government.

Reuters writes that retail stocks fell despite information that sales were good for Black Friday.

Reuters reports that the president of Merrill Lynch (MER) told employees that the firm’s strategy is sound.

The Wall Street Journal writes the the FCC’s proposal to further regulate cable companies may be in trouble due to pressure from Congress.

The Wall Street Journal writes that HSBC (HBC) has become the first bank to bail out SIVs by taking more than $45 billion of SIV assets onto its balance sheet.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Google (GOOG) will start a service which will allow users to store data from their PCs on the search company’s hard drives.

The Wall Street Journal also writes that the NBC arm of GE (GE) will begin to use data from Tivo (TIVO) to target advertising.

The New York Times writes that the head of Commerzbank says that the extent of the current banking crisis is still unclear.

According to the FT, online retail sales should rise 20% for this holiday season.

Barron’s writes that shares of Cisco (CSCO) fell on concerns about revenue in emerging markets.

Barron’s writes that VMWare’s (VMW) stock is under pressure because of mixed views about the company’s long term future

CNN Money writes that Senator Schumer wants the government to look into loans taken out by Countrywide Financail (CFC)

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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