Media Digest 9/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   Markets in Asia and Europe were mostly higher with many up over 1%. Cadbury rose on an offer from Kraft (KFT). Rio Tinto (RTP) rose.

Reuters:   Kraft (KFT) bid $16.7 billion for Cadbury.

Reuters:   China Trust bid $2.4 billion for AIG’s (AIG) Taiwasn unit.

Reuters:   Markets are still concerned about stimulus programs after the G-20 meeting.

Reuters:   The US leads the world in foreign weapons sales.

Reuters:   Google (GOOG) says online books make the internet democratic.

Reuters:   Gold is still near $1.000.

Reuters:   Eddie Lampert hit back on a “inaccurate” piece on Sears (SHLD) in Barron’s

WSJ:   Cadbury rejected Kraft’s (KFT) buyout offer.

WSJ:   The G-20 set broad rules for regulating bank risk.

WSJ:   Honda (HMC) will launch an all electric car in the US within a few years.

NYT:   Movie studios are worried about the threat the movie rental kiosk Redbox is to their businesses.

NYT:   Google’s (GOOG) former China CEO will fund start ups.

NYT:  TV and cable companies like DirecTV (DTV) and Verizon (VZ) are starting  app stores like Apple (AAPL)

NYT:   Congress is trying to block the growth of natural gas to help the coal industry.

NYT:   Intel (INTC) and Qualcomm (QCOM) are becoming more aggressive competing against one another.

NYT:   NBC (GE) is overhauling its women’s site.

FT:   Google (GOOG) is offering concessions to European publishers to help its online business.

FT:   The FDA is easing the way for the GSK (GSK) Cervarix vaccine.

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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