Media Digest (3/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   A suicide bomber killed 37 in Moscow.

Reuters:   China sentenced Rio Tinto (RTP) executives in prison for ten years.

Reuters:   A JPMorgan $1.4 billion tax write-off faces FDIC scrutiny.

Reuters:   Some Apple iPads will not ship until April 12.

Reuters:   Iceland expects an IMF review within a few weeks.

Reuters:   Geely of China signed a binding $1.8 billion agreement to buy Volvo from Ford (F).

Reuters:   Sinopec (SNP) will buy upstream assets in Angola.

WSJ:   The Boeing (BA) Dreamliner passed a critical test.

WSJ:   US citizens are losing faith in the economy.

WSJ:   Someone stole the identities of 3.3 million people from student loan records.

WSJ:   The idea of taxing large  banks to pay for a future crisis is gaining support in the US and UK

WSJ:   Rising Treasury bond yields could hurt stocks.

WSJ:   Chrysler is trying to speed up the launch of its new 300 series flagship car.

WSJ:   Local governments facing growing pension liabilities.

WSJ:   Nestle is taking a beating from environmentalists who are mounting an online campaign against the company.

WSJ:   Google (GOOG) will challenge the new version of Microsoft (MSFT) Office.

WSJ:   After-tax corporate income was 7.6%, nearly as high as pre-recession levels.

WSJ:   Grasshoppers could damage millions of acres of farm land.

WSJ:   Federal caps on pay caused AIG (AIG) to lose its head of aircraft leasing.

WSJ:   Ebay (EBAY) will offer high-end fashion brands

NYT:   Sony (SNE) hopes to catch-up to its rivals in consumer electronics.

NYT:   Apple (AAPL) faces the problem of mass market penetration of its iPad.

NYT:   It has become harder to unsubscribe from e-mail lists.

NYT:   British Air was hit by renewed strikes.

FT:   The FDIC will review how it sells assets for failed banks to prevent windfalls for buyers.

FT:   Junk bonds are selling at record levels.

Bloomberg:   Goldman Sachs (GS) capitalization of the dollar lead a turnaround of the firm’s outlook on economy.

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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