Media Digest 1/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may leave China due to attempts to hack into its service there.

Reuters:   Oil dropped below $80 on US inventory news.

Reuters:   China markets fear tighter money policies from the government

Reuters:   The White House says the stimulus has saved two million jobs.

Reuters:   An executive at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) said the bank made money trading against its clients.

Reuters:   Facebook picked McAfee (NYSE:MFE) to protect it from attacks on its service.

Reuters:   Obama will announce TARP fees on banks.

Reuters:   Fed officials see high jobless rates for a long time.

Reuters:   Kraft (NYSE:KFT) was helped as Ferrero dropped out of contention to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY).

Reuters:   Bank of American moved its CFO into the job of running its retail bank operations.

WSJ:   GM is betting on full-sized trucks.

WSJ:   Many economists say low rates fueled the housing bubble but Bernanke disagrees.

WSJ:   China sharply slowed its stimulus.

WSJ:   A commission looking into the credit crisis is being attacked over conflicts of interest by some members.

WSJ:   Thain is a candidate to run CIT.

WSJ:   JAL shares dropped 81%.

WSJ:   The FDIC will try to tie bank fees to pay.

WSJ:   The US trade deficit grew.

WSJ:   Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) said hackers hit its site.

WSJ:   Automakers say 2010 will be hard in Europe.

WSJ:   Infosys increased it full-year outlook.

WSJ:   Bond insurers are hitting mortgage companies with suits to recover billions in loan losses.

NYT:   Owners of the Google Nexus One are experiencing poor customer service.

NYT:   Some members of Congress are attacking a system where pharma companies pay makers of generics to delay offering alternatives to patented drugs.

NYT:   The Nintendo Wii added the NetFlix (NASDAQ:NFLX) service to stream video.

NYT:   Chinese car companies plan to offer electric cars in the US within a year.

NYT:   The Fed is again being accused of blocking information about the AIG bailout.

FT:   In another take on Google, the FT says it may be thrown out of China.

FT:   The EU says Greece may have falsified data about its debt.

FT:   A US judge froze Argentine assets held by the Fed.

FT:   China raised bank reserve requirements.

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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