Media Digest 3/12/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters.   Obama will nominate Yellen to be Fed vice chair.

Reuters:   China told Obama to leave yuan policy to its government.

Reuters:   A Chinese minister said the nation could not keep up fast industrial growth

Reuters:   Toyota (TM) says discounts are helping sales.

Reuters:   Summers says the US is close to job growth.

Reuters:   Democrats are closer to a healthcare bill.

WSJ:   Low shipping capacity is hurting US exports.

WSJ:   The final review of the Lehman collapse blamed the company’s management, E&Y, and several banks.

WSJ:   AIG (AIG) workers will give up $45 million after talks with Feinberg.

WSJ:   The head of GMAC may get no cash comp this year.

WSJ:   Disney (DIS) studios will focus on Marvel heroes.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) is near a deal on Chinese censoring.

WSJ:   The US may put black boxes in cars.

WSJ:   Motorola (MOT) will put Microsoft (MSFT) Bing on some of its phones.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) will stop censoring its web results in China.

NYT:   Rising seed prices are drawing scrutiny for regulators.

NYT:   Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) allow advertisers to buy ads in the second it takes for a web page to load.

NYT:   Lexus has avoided the image problems of parent Toyota.

FT:   Google faces regulatory hurdles on its purchase of AdMob.

NYT:   Luxury cars helped profits at BMW and VW.

NYT:   The EU and US are arguing over hedge fund regulation.

NYT:   The Senate Democrats will move forward on finance reform.

WSJ:   The unintended acceleration problems Audi had in 1982 are a template for Toyota (TM)

WSJ:   Some retailers are seeing a return of their pricing power.

WSJ:   Economists credit the Fed with salvaging the economy during the credit crisis.

WSJ:   Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) have ramped up their war for server chip market share

WSJ:   Labor deadlines are hurting the industry’s recovery.

WSJ:   Americans cut debt in the fourth quarter of last year.

FT:   Changes in takeover defenses will help increase hostile deals.

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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