Media Digest 4/26/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Germany’s ruling party is keeping pressure on Greece to restructure debt.

Reuters:   The growth forecasts of the G20 do not make economic sense.

Reuters:   Oil moved higher on strong economic numbers.

Reuters:   The Fed is likely to extend the period during which it will keep rates low.

Reuters:   Bootlegged versions of the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad are available in China.

Reuters:   Hertz (NYSE:HTZ) will buy Dollar Thrifty for $1.2 billion.

WSJ:   Democrats are near a deal to regulate derivatives which may hurt trading by banks.

WSJ:   Goldman Sachs Group (NASDAQ:GS) built part of its mortgage operation by working with Washington Mutual.

WSJ:   Merger talks between UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental (NYSE: CAL) are being undermine by a debate about share prices.

WSJ:   Strong increases in consumer spending may cause companies to begin to hire.

WSJ:   The IMF is speeding up its effort to aid Greece.

WSJ:   Many technical analysts think the market will go higher

WSJ:   Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is near a decision on a new chairman.

WSJ:   The push for a global bank tax fell apart.

WSJ:   A new generation of laptops is eating into netbook  sales.

WSJ:  Stifel will buy Thomas Weisel Partners.

WSJ:   CKE Restaurants will accept a deal to buy it from Apollo

WSJ:   TV upfront sales are strong.

WSJ:   Treasury trading may show a concern about long-term inflation.

WSJ:   PIMCO is putting more money into emerging market debt.

NYT:   Economists are still at odds about how strong the recovery will be.

NYT:   Emerging nations will get a larger role in the World Bank.

FT   Goldman Sachs Group released a paper trial which supports its defense against the SEC.

FT:   Greek aid will depend on its budget cut plans.

FT:   Nielsen will have a $21 billion IPO.

FT:   Cash rich tech companies added $65 billion in reserves in a year. The money is not being used for M&A

FT:   The News York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) will used local editions to fight a new edition of the Wall Street Journal.

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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