Media Digest 7/31/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Newspaper According to Reuters, T Boone Pickens is seeking an "army" of business leaders and citizens to back alternative energy.

Reuters reports that Starbucks (SBUX) posted if first loss as a public company but back its forecast for the next fiscal.

Reuters writes that Chrysler may make cars to be marketed by Fiat and Tata.

Reuters reports that write-downs at Deutsche Bank (DB) have now totalled $11 billion.

Reuters reports that Merrill Lynch’s (MER) reorganization of its balance sheet may only be supporting an illusion of improvement in the company’s fortunes.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Google (GOOG) may set up a venture capital arm.

The Wall Street Journal reports that high oil prices pushed up Shell’s net.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Disney (DIS) theme parks helped increase the company’s earnings.

The Wall Street Journal writes that GM (GM) will cut 5,000 white collar workers.

The New York Times reports that the number of workers being moved from full-time employees to part-time is rising rapidly.

The New York Times writes that Amgen (AMGN) has been ordered to change the label on one of its best selling drugs, which treats anemia, in a way that may cuts its sales.

The New York Times writes that EADS will cut more jobs because of the weak dollar.

The FT reports that Morgan Stanley (MS) may spend $1 billion on new hires.

The FT writes that Moody’s is downbeat on a recovery of the credit markets.

Bloomberg reports that China’s sovereign debt rating was raised to A+ by S&P.

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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