Media Digest 7/8/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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MarketWatch:   The IMF expects slow growth this year and next.

Reuters:   The battle between the oil industry and government on drilling regulations continues.

Reuters:   The Gulf leak could be plugged in two weeks.

Reuters:   The US has set up a program to prevent cyber attacks on government and company sites.Reuters:   China may take action if the drop in its stock markets worsens.

Reuters:   News Corp (NYSE: NWS) says it has no plans to sell MySpace.

Reuters:   Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) has sold its private equity unit.

WSJ:   The coffee market is moving toward a high.

WSJ:   Banks are restructuring loans on unpaid commercial properties.

WSJ:   Apartment vacancies fell modestly.

WSJ:   Retail sales in June were relatively good.

WSJ:   The EU set stress test rules for banks.

WSJ:   German exports picked up in May.

WSJ:   AT&T Communications (NYSE: T) says a software problem has slowed its 3G network.

WSJ:   GM sold Nexteer to a Chinese company.

WSJ:   Europe will limit banker bonuses.

WSJ:   Fewer people are behind in loans according to the ABA.

WSJ:   The US may swap spies with Russia.

WSJ:   The US may cut the amount of energy it takes from Canadian oil sands.

WSJ:   Obama wants to increase jobs among exporters.

WSJ:   Bids for an Air Force tanker are due, probably pitting Boeing (NYSE: BA) against EADS.

WSJ:   China is still examining Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) license to operate in the country.

WSJ:   Video console makers may add 3G capacity.

WSJ:   Bloomberg will go into competition with Lexis Nexis

WSJ:   Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) will add 1,000 quality engineers.

WSJ:   Sirius XM’s (NASDAQ: SIRI) sales and subscribers grew.

WSJ:   Money supply numbers from the Fed are expected to show that the economy is slow to recover.

WSJ:   China says it will not use its ownership of US debt as a weapon.

WSJ:   Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) will close its subprime unit and fire 3,600 people.

WSJ:   TARP paybacks may slow.

NYT:   Facebook is strengthening outside the US.

NYT:   The EU has set up regulations that may allow bioengineered crops to be used more easily.

FT:   The EU is looking at some curbs on Google.

FT:   The IMF says global growth may slow.

Bloomberg:   The CFO of Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) say it will cut the prices it pays for acquisitions.

Bloomberg:   Japan factory orders fell.

Bloomberg:   Apartment vacancies dropped from a 20-year high, according to Reis.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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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