Media Digest 9/22/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   Obama pushed his economic message before the G20 summit

Reuters:   A Senate panel took up healthcare legislation.

Reuters:   Bank of America (BAC) missed a deadline for supplying information from Congress and now faces another threat from the SEC.

Reuters:   Proposed net neutrality rules for wireless systems drew criticism from carriers.

Reuters:   The FDIC may tap US banks to increase its funding.

Reuters:   Sun Microsystems (JAVA) is losing $100 million a month, according to Oracle (ORCL).

Reuters:   Dell (DELL) will buy Perot (PER) for $3.9 billion.

Reuters:   The Fed is in not hurry to raise rates.

Reuters:   US mortgage delinquencies set a record.

WSJ:   The Deutsche Bank (DB) chairman had information on a plan to spy on a board member.

WSJ:   Cadbury is softening its stance toward Kraft’s (KFT) offer.

WSJ:   Insurance companies are raising prices to help battered balance sheets.

WSJ:   Harbinger reduced its stake in The New York Times (NYT).

WSJ:   Facebook has set up a partnership with Nielsen.

WSJ:   The Fed will miss an October 1 deadline to provide Treasury a broad review of the agency’s operations.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) Voice may draw FCC review.

WSJ:   AIG (AIG) is showing signs of stabilizing.

WSJ:   The EU published details of its antitrust case against Intel (INTC).

WSJ:   Bank of America (BAC) will end a loan loss sharing arrangement with the government.

WSJ:    Netflix (NFLX) awarded a $1 million prize.

WSJ:   Infrastructure funds are not immune to the credit crisis.

WSJ:   Net neutrality may be a good idea but building the Internet is not free.

NYT:   Hyundai is building market share with through price and quality.

NYT:   The Asian Development Bank said that the region is quickly recovering.

NYT:   The G20 is being urged to raise bank reserves.

NYT:   Leading indicators rose for the fifth month.

FT:   A growing rift between the US and Europe may hurt results from a climate summit.

Bloomberg:   Vivendi may sell its 20% stake in NBCU (GE).

Bloomberg:   China’s stimulus package may be delaying efforts for the consumer to lead its economy.

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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