Media Digest 3/25/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   EU leaders are divided on Greece before their summit.

Reuters:   Changes in the health care bill will go back to the House.

Reuters:   China described interest rates as a “heavy-duty weapon” in the war with inflation.

Reuters:   Dubai World creditors held $14 billion in debt in December.

Reuters:   A sale of MGM may be delayed.

Reuters:   Icahn and Lions Gate were in a verbal war over the firm’s value.

WSJ:   Founder  Brin drove Google (GOOG) to exit China.

WSJ:   Dubai will put $9.5 billion into Dubai World.

WSJ:   The death of Jerome York has made Apple’s board less independent.

WSJ:   Appaloosa Management and Carlson Capital are focuses of hedge fund investigations.

WSJ:   The  slow sale of Citigroup (C) troubled assets make it harder for the bank to make money.

WSJ:   Bank of America (BAC) will begin a plan to reduce mortgage principals.

WSJ:   Caterpillar’s (CAT) bottom line will be hit by health care costs.

WSJ:   Wells Farg0 (WFC) will buy some GMAC assets.

WSJ:   GE (GE) will sell its stake in an outsourcing business.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) is urging Congress to take a bigger role in internet freedom around the world.

WSJ:   Deutsche Telekom (DT) said it is committed to the US market.

WSJ:   New home sales fell last month.

WSJ:   Wall St. will be looking at how much software Oracle (ORCL) actually sold last month.

WSJ:   3D movies are helping move up ticket prices.

WSJ:   ConocoPhillips (COP) will cut growth plans.

WSJ:   Honda’s (HMC) hybrid sales were better than the company expected.

WSJ:   Dell (DELL) will expand its services unit in China.

WSJ:   Nvidia (NVDA) will launch a chip aimed at AMD (AMD).

NYT:   Social Security will pay out more than it collects this year.

NYT:   China says it will not adjust its policy on the value of its currency.

NYT:   Regulators may directly oversee a Genzyme plant.

FT:   China Unicom (CHU) will not use Google search on its phones.

FT:   The US financial regulation bill appears ready to pass.

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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