Media Digest 3/28/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, Bank of America (BAC) will pay the president of Countrywide (CFC) $28 million to stay and run the company after the buy-out is complete.

Reuters writes that the chairman of Bear Stearns (BSC) sold all of his stock in the company for $61 million.

Reuters writes that Xerox (XRX) will pay $670 million to settle a securities lawsuit.

Reuters reports that JP Morgan (JPM) is trying to integrate Bear Stearns operations as they begin to fall apart.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Citigroup (C) has hired an outsider to run its huge US consumer bank.

The Wall Street Journal writes that ad-click data for Google (GOOG) was disappointing for the second time in two months.

The Wall Street Journal writes that tech firms holding auction-rate securities are beginning to post write-offs due to their falling value.

The Wall Street Journal writes that AT&T (T) plans to launch a mobil TV service for its handset subscribers.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the number of cellphones with GPS is rising rapidly.

The Wall Street Journal writes that recent numbers suggest that China may have passed the US in total number of internet users.

The New York Times writes that a China anti-monopoly law could hurt Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid for Yahoo! (YHOO).

The FT writes that M&A activity is at a four-year low.

The FT writes that rice prices are up 30% to an all-time high.

Bloomberg writes that Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) may have to raise $20 billion in new capital.

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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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