Media Digest 6/23/2009

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Reuters:   Toyota’s (TM) new management has a rocky road.

Reuters:   A poll shows confidence in Obama’s economic plans drops.

Reuters:   Apple’s (AAPL) Jobs was at work.

Reuters:   Ford (F) and Nissan will get special factory upgrade loans

Reuters:   Obama is set to push healthcare and energy reform.

Reuters:   The Justice Department dropped the UBS (UBS) tax evasion case.

Reuters:   More credit card rules could hurt MasterCard (MA) and Visa (V).

Reuters:   Policymakers cautioned about the global recovery.

Reuters:   Rain and cold weather may have hurt June retail sales.

WSJ:   Netflix (NFLX) is positioning itself to offer more products online.

WSJ:   Three banks have suspended paying their TARP dividends.

WSJ:   The CEO of Ford (F) is betting part of the company’s future on reviving the Taurus.

WSJ:   Eastsman Kodak (EK) will stop selling Kodachrome.

WSJ:   T-Mobile (DT) and Verizon Wirelesss (VZ)(VOD) will offer Google- (GOOG) powered Motorola (MOT) phones.

WSJ:   Level 3 (LVLT) has set a debt exchange to help its balance sheet.

WSJ:   Iran’s election did little to help oil prices.

WSJ:   COO Cook has effectively taken control of Apple (AAPL).

WSJ:   Consumer groups say that Wal-Mart’s claims about saving are overblown.

NYT:   The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission want control of the derivatives markets.

FT:   Executives are cashing out of shares in their own companies.

FT:   Directors’ liability insurers may face $6 billion in claims

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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