Media Digest 4/21/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, National City (NCC) will raise as much as $7 billion.

Reuters writes that Viacom (VIA) will launch a pay TV channel to compete with Time Warner’s (TWX) HBO. Its partners will include MGM and Lionsgate.

Reuters writes that The National Association for Business Economics members are becoming more concerned about the economy.

Reuters writes that drivers are paying record prices for gas.

Reuters reports that a German magazine wrotes that Boeing’s (BA) Dreamliner will be delayed again.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Blockbuster (BBI) may not be able to finance its plan to buy Circuit City (CC).

The Wall Street Journal writes that the Saudis are reluctant to start more oil project which could drive prices higher.

The Wall Street Journal writes that losses at Citigroup (C) and Merrill Lynch (MER) could have been worse but an accounting feature allowed them to keep some write-downs off their books.

The Wall Street Journal reports that The Bank of England plans to put $100 billion into the banking systems to try to offset mortgage losses.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) hope that a solid quarter will improve its leverage with Microsoft (MSFT).

The Wall Street Journal writes that  Microsoft is starting to sell software on a subscription-based model.

The New York Times writes that biotech grains are becoming more popular as food prices rise.

The FT writes that Bank of America (BAC) will sell part of its China bank venture to raise money.

Bloomberg reports that emerging market oil use has passed that by the US for the first time

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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