Media Digest 1/28/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls grew to 8 million.

Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) is considering selling its real estate unit.

Reuters:   Wall St. will fight Obama’s plan for the banking system.

Reuters:   Obama said he would push jobs growth.

Reuters:   The Senate will vote on Bernanke’s reappointment today.

Reuters:   Obama is pushing exports as a key aspect of the recovery.

WSJ:   Banks are looking for ways around new pay caps rules and pressure from Congress on compensation.

WSJ:   Geithner defended his AIG (NYSE:AIG) actions saying they were essential to saving the credit markets.

WSJ:   The Fed was upbeat in the FOMC notes and said it would keep rates low.

WSJ:   The German operators of McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) say the company is trying to force them out of contracts.

WSJ:   Sovereign debt problems are growing in Portugal and Greece.

WSJ:   China will not limit the distribution or use of the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android OS.

WSJ:   Nintendo profits dropped 9% in the first nine months of its fiscal year.

WSJ:   Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) will increase R&D spending.

WSJ:   New homes sales dropped in December.

WSJ:   Subscriber numbers at NetFlix (NYSE:NFLX) rose.

WSJ:   The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad will hurt the ability of cell carriers to hold customers based on their service.

WSJ:   Investors are betting that rates will not rise when the Fed ends it $1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage paper.

WSJ:   Ford (NYSE:F) may benefit from Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) problems.

NYT:   The iPad is positioned between laptops and smartphones.

NYT:   Carriers are pushing devices that use a great deal of bandwidth even though these strain their networks.

NYT:   Technical snags may delay the start of The Wall Street Journal’s NYC edition.

FT:   Barney Frank said the Obama bank overhaul plan needed to become law immediately.

FT:   Twitter is working on technology to allow the service to evade censors.

FT:   Toyota’s recal spreads to Europe.

Bloomberg:   E-mails show that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was favored by regulators.

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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