Media Digest 5/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The Senate will begin to vote on the financial reform bill.

Reuters:   Regulators are considering an antitrust case against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Reuters:   Tensions between Germany and France over the Greek bailout may hurt the Eurozone’s prospects.

Reuters:   S&P announced new credit score ratings for 26,000 companies

Reuters:   Oil dropped below $86 on high US stockpiles.

Reuters:   A new eruption of an Iceland volcano shut some airspace over the UK.

Reuters:   The Apple iPad reached one million unit sales.

Reuters:   The Connecticut attorney general is probing craigslist sex ads.

Reuters:   IBM (NYSE: IBM) bought cloud computing software firm Cast Iron.

Reuters:   China said it will block overseas influence on its internet.

WSJ:   The  Minerals Management Service, which regulates offshore drilling, was harshly criticized over the Gulf spill.

WSJ:   The Lehman administrator will resist claims from banks which total over$50 billion.

WSJ:   JC Penney (NYSE: JCP) is targeting mobile shoppers.

WSJ:   US car sales rose 20% in April.

WSJ:   Banks kept lending standards tight according to the Fed.

WSJ:   Steel makers are expanding capacity.

WSJ:   The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) faces shareholder suits.

WSJ:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) invested in two wind farms.

WSJ:   Avis-Budget (NYSE: CAR) may fight Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) over a bid for Dollar.

WSJ:   Chip sales rose 4.6% in March.

WSJ:   Insiders at Dendreon sold shares after the FDA approval of a key drug.

WSJ:  The price of coal is rising quickly in China.

WSJ:   The dollar hit a high against the yen.

WSJ:   The Treasury will sell $48 billion in bills this week.

NYT:  It is too early to measure the impact of the Gulf spill.

NYT:   Spain is moving toward financial reforms.

NYT:   The Germany objection to the Greek bailout say a great deal about its aversion to debt.

NYT:   UBS (NYSE: UBS) posted a strong profit.

NYT:   GMAC posted its first profit since 2008.

FT:   The ECB suspended its requirement that Greece supply liquidity.

FT:   China manufacturing grow is slowing as Beijing increased requirements on banks to stop cheap money.

FT:   The cost to insure Goldman debt insurance rose.

Bloomberg:   The BP plc (NYSE: BP) spill is changing the Congressional debate about energy.

Bloomberg:   The Apple probe by the government may have come from a complaint by Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE)

Bloomberg:   The 2010 hurricane season may be the worst in years.

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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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