Media Digest 2/5/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The economy probably added 5,ooo jobs last month.

Reuters:   Kraft (KFT) gained control over 75% of Cadbury shares.

Reuters:   Toyota (TM) may recall the Prius.

Reuters:   Publishers and Amazon (AMZN) are still fighting over book prices.

Reuters:   NY State accused the ex-CEO of Bank of America (BAC) of fraud.

Reuters:   Google (GOOG) faces many risks in its stand-off with China.

WSJ:   Deutsche Bank (DB) may take its US T-Mobile operation public.

WSJ:   The Justice Department may challenge a pact between Google and publishers.

WSJ:   Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) will sell $8 billion in debt.

WSJ:   Comcast (CMCSA) and NBCU executives defended their merger in Washington.

WSJ:   Profits are up at many big companies due to huge cost cuts and modest sales gains.

WSJ:   GSK (GSK) will stop research on antidepressants.

WSJ:   A number of factors could inflate January jobs data.

WSJ:   Thirty year mortgage rates moved above 5%.

NYT:   Europe’s problems may hurt the global recovery.

NYT:   Toyota (TM) is faced with problems over a lawsuit which does not involve floor mats or brakes.

NYT:   The lack of progress on healthcare legislation leaves some drug companies in limbo

NYT:   The White House introduced a plan to double US exports.

FT:   Jamie Dimon of JPMorgna (JPM) will get $10 million in company stock.

Bloomberg:  The Senate may consider a bill to tax all bonuses over $400,000 at companies that got TARP funds.

Bloomberg:   Problems with Toyota brakes may make most can manufacturers look at their brake system designs.

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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