Media Digest 2/16/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Barclays (NYSE:BCS) earned $18 billion, was more than forecast.

Reuters:   The Eurozone gave Greece 30 days to show progress on its deficit.

Reuters:   The number of accident claims involving Toyota (NYSE:TM) cars is up.

Reuters:   The Fed has a paper loss on Bear Stearns investments.

WSJ:   Investors are recruiting the terminally ill to buy annuities.

WSJ:   Dollar demand rose and the euro was hurt by concerns about stability in the region.

WSJ:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) will boost testing.

WSJ:   Foreclosures are still pressuring home prices according to two new studies.

WSJ:   JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) will buy an energy trading unit from RBS and Sempra Energy for $1.7 billion.

WSJ:   After criticism, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will make more changes to it Buzz social network feature.

WSJ:   Talks about Dubai plans to cut debt payments hurt the debt markets.

WSJ:   Exports pushed up Japan’s GDP.

WSJ:   Lawyers and safety experts want data stored in “black boxes” in Toyota cars.

WSJ:   New features for the mobility market have been built around software and not hardware.

WSJ:   New “3D” movies have started a new competition for Hollywood.

WSJ:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) says it has fixed 500,000 cars.

WSJ:   NBC uses researchers to see how viewers use their time to watch the Olympic games.

WSJ:   The New York Times (NYT) has launched a plagiarism probe which involves on of its business reporters.

WSJ:   High lumber prices have hurt builders.

WSJ:   Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) upped its rating on Saudi Arabia.

WSJ:   Hedges on Greek debt show that some derivatives must be overhauled.

NYT:   China has built more ports in South Asia, a challenge to India.

NYT:   Drug firms have applied brand names to generics to sell them in developing nations.

NYT:   Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched it new mobile software.

NYT:   Mobile carriers have held back on 4G because of worries about flaws created by the technology and infrastructure.

FT:   Media companies are concerned that deals to put content on the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad could hurt margins.

FT:   Scientists have discovered the secret of aging.

Bloomberg:   Europe finance ministers will force Greece to make deeper budget cuts.

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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