Media Digest 8/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The GM CEO will leave as the company has its IPO.

‘Reuters:   Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over Android.

Reuters:   Germany raised its forecast for the second half

Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) top lawyer is being questioned.

Reuters:   India gave Research In Motion until the end of August to make adjustments to the BlackBerry.

Reuters:   India will target Google and Skype messaging.

WSJ:   Germany’s economy grew at the fastest pace in 20 years

WSJ:   Cable TV companies are building applications to allow people to watch mobile TV.

WSJ:   Problems have emerged in the Irish banking sector.

WSJ:   The number of car dealers is falling.

WSJ:   Germany may place limits on Google.

WSJ:   A law firm sued HP over its firing of Mark Hurd.

WSJ:   The head of Sprint-Nextel’s (NYSE: S) product group left.

NYT:   Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) violated a court order by not turning over required documents.

NYT:   Ron Burkle nominated three members for the Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) board.

FT:   The US is probing corruption at big pharma companies.

FT:   Google’s Android passed Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in mobile operating systems worldwide.

Bloomberg:   The largest M&A deals of the boom lost a portion of their $10 trillion value, lead by Sprint-Nextel and McClatchy.

Bloomberg:   Sales from Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) may signal a slowdown in corporate tech spending.

Bloomberg:   Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 outsold the Nintendo Wii and Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3.

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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