Media Digest 7/15/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Bloomberg, GM (GM) will announce a major restructuring including moving more production to small cars.

Reuters reports that regional bank stocks were hit hard by liquidity concerns.

Reuters writes that Anheuser-Busch (BUD) was bought by InBev for $70 a share.

Reuters reports that Time Warners’s (TWX) AOL launched a personal finance site called WalletPop.

Reuters reports that Kimberly-Clark cut its outlook for the year.

Reuters writes that Soros said the Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) crisis would not be the last.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Paulson took the lead in the plan to bail out FNM and FRE.

The Wall Street Journal writes that mortgage insurers have tightened their standards making loans harder to get.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a financing deal between Paramount and Deutsche Bank (DB) has falled though, probably because of issues from the credit crisis.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Northrop (NOC) and Boeing (BA) are preparing new bids for the Air Force tanker contract.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Intel (INTC) will launch a new versions of its Centrino chip.

The Wall Street Journal reports that E*trade (ETFC) sold its unit in Canada.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Apple (AAPL) sold one million of its iPhones in its first three days on the market.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Palm (PALM) has launched its new Treo into the smartphone market.

The New York Times reports that Microsoft (MSFT) is launching more games to appeal to mainstream users to increase the sales of its Xbox.

The New York Times reports that the CEO of Citigroup (C) has launched a new program to help to set management goals at the company, but it will not save the bank from severe near-term problems.

The New York Times reports that two senior executives stepped down at The Tribune Company.

The New York Times writes that Bush has lifted a federal ban on some off-shore drilling.

The FT writes that EBay (EBAY) won its counterfeiting could case with Tiffany.

Douglas A. McIntrye

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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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