Media Digest 2/25/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Accordig to Reuters, Alan Greenspan says that the US economic growth is zero and that the oil boom will go on "forever."

Reuters writes that the National Association for Business Economics survey predicts that the economy will slow by avoid recession.

Reuters writes that the Cerberus problems at Chrysler, GMAC, and other firms it owns are deepening.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Electronic Arts (ERTS) has made a $2 billion offer for Take-Two (TTWO).

The Wall Street Journal reports that Clear Channel (CCU) has settled it buy-out disagreement with Providence Equity but Wachovia (WB) may walk away from the financing.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Goldman Sachs (GS) may post its lowest profit in three years due to write-downs in debt from corporate buy-outs.

The New York Times writes that oil moved back towards $100 on movements of Turkish troops into Iraq.

The New York Times writes that movie studios are facing a sharp drop in DVD sales.

The New York Times writes that Adobe (ADBE) has created a platform which will allow thousands of applications to run on PCs and the internet.

Bloomberg writes that the failure of the auction rate market is forcing up interest rates for municipalities.

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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