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Media Digest 2/11/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The EU summit will address the Greek bailout.

Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will test an ultra-high speed broadband system.

Reuters:   Sweden took that top spot from the US for use of telecom technology.

Reuters:   China’s CPI increase slowed. Loan action remained strong.

Reuters:   Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) posted a profit.

Reuters:   Rio Tinto (NYSE:RTP) numbers beat estimates.

Reuters:   iSuppli says the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad costs  as little as $229 to produce.

Reuters:   AIG (NYSE:AIG) launched a new system for executive pay.

WSJ:   About 3,000 small banks may have to cut loan activity due to increases in commercial real estate losses.

WSJ:   The Fed has begun to work on a program to tighten rates.

WSJ:   Germany and France are at work on a plan to rescue Greece.

WSJ:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) says it has made progress as it repairs recalled cars.

WSJ:   Motorola (NYSE:MOT) will consider a break-up of the company.

WSJ:   The iPad highlights the dispute over Flash that Apple has with Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE).

WSJ:   Apple is in talks with major networks to cut the costs for customers to download TV programs to the iPad.

WSJ:   The price that Toyota (NYSE:TM) gets for its vehicles may drop sharply.

WSJ:   The rate at which Sprint (NYSE:S) lost customers slowed in the last quarter.

WSJ:   Merck (NYSE:MRK) settled some Vioxx suits.

WSJ:   Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) will restructure its units.

WSJ:   Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and P&G (NYSE:PG) will produce “family friendly” TV shows to compete with risqué programs.

WSJ:   CME bought 90% of the Dow Jones index business in a deal that values the enterprise at $675 million.

WSJ:   Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) will not trim pay in 2010.

NYT:   Readers are upset about e-book prices which have risen above $9.99.

NYT:   GM and Ford (NYSE:F) dealers have begun to offer lower prices to lure Toyota buyers.

NYT:   Unemployment in Silicon Valley is higher than the national average and the worst since 2005.

NYT:   China producer prices rose rapidly in January.

FT:   Gordon Brown says global bank tax will be set soon.

FT:   Apple will sell US  TV shows for $1.

FT:   The CEO of MySpace has resigned.

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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