Media Digest 3/9/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg.

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Reuters:   Toyota (TM) said it found no electronic safety problems with its cars.

Reuters:   China said it was committed to US debt but worried about gold.

Reuters:   Japanese car companies are studying a brake override system.

Reuters:   Sony (SNE) will start selling 3D TVs in Japan.

Reuters:   Northrup (NOC) dropped out of bidding for a U.S. military air tanker project.

Reuters:   Google (GOOG) and MySpace face charges of cyber-bullying by some members.

Reuters:   Greece is urging the G20 to reign in speculators on its national debt.

Reuters:   The International Brotherhood of Electic Workers sued Goldman Sachs (GS) over its compensation practices.

Reuters:   Obama targeted large insurers as a major cause of healthcare cost increases.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) is testing TV search services.

WSJ:   Private equity firms are facing suits over some of their investments.

WSJ:   UK banks face debt downgrades.

WSJ:   AIG (AIG) and MetLife (MET) reached a deal for AIG to sell its Alico unit for $15.5 billion.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) will have problems building and servicing its ultra high-speed internet network.

WSJ:   IBM’s (IBM) CEO compensation dropped.

WSJ:   Tivo’s loss rose on increased costs.

WSJ:   Markets were buoyed by chance that Dubai would settle debt problems.

WSJ:   Many retailers are increasing inventories.

WSJ:   Verizon Wireless will start to carry NFL games.

NYT:   Pension funds are making riskier investments.

NYT:   Google’s (GOOG) translation tool has become highly sophisticated and is gaining a large following.

NYT:   Oil and gasoline prices are moving up.

NYT:   Pfizer (PFE) and Teva (TEVA) are competing to buy generics companies.

NYT:   Brazil may put tariffs on some US goods.

NYT:   Portugal is preparing austerity measures.

FT:   Merkel of Germany said an IMF-like agency in Europe would require a new treaty.

FT:   China will keep buying US debt.

FT:   News Corp (NWS) is expanding more rapidly into the Middle East.

Bloomberg:   Ethanol prices are about to rise.

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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