Media Digest 11/19/2010 (Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg)

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Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) margins rushed past expectations and shares moved higher (Reuters)

Bernanke said a strong US recovery is essential to global economic health (Reuters)

Lawmakers attacked regulators and banks on the foreclosure debacle (Reuters)

Qantas may not be able to fly its Airbus A380 planes for weeks (Reuters)

The core enterprise customers of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) showed interest in its new Playbook tablet (Reuters)

Some of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) flagship N8 phones have a power problem (Reuters)

GM’s share price lost momentum after the stock launched its IPO (Reuters)

KKR is in talks to buy Del Monte (Reuters)

China tech firm Huawei may be in trouble for an investment in a small US company (WSJ)

Ireland is about to take capital from the IMF and EU (WSJ)

Former car czar Steve Rattner was hit with new claims from Cuomo which could bar him from the securities industry (WSJ)

The Labor Department says new business start-ups slowed significantly (WSJ)

Republicans defeated an effort to extend job benefits to two million people who will lose them this month (WSJ)

The presidential deficit reduction panel cannot reach consensus on healthcare (WSJ)

Airbus will seek damages from Rolls Royce for engine problems (WSJ)

Key Delta (NYSE: DAL) workers rejected unionization (WSJ)

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) may spin off its Rainbow unit. (WSJ)

The Mortgage Bankers Association said the delinquencies fell slightly (WSJ)

Republican governors will push for broad budget cuts (WSJ)

Cardinal Health will buy Kinray for $1.3 billion. (WSJ)

MySpace tightened its ties to rival Faacebook (WSJ)

California paid higher-than-expected rates to raise money (WSJ)

Sugar prices moved up on concerns about the crop in India (WSJ)

Former car czar Rattner sued employer Quadrangle for contract breaches (NYT)

The sovereign debt restructuring in Europe may spread to Portugal (NYT)

New documents showed Dell tried to hid defects in some PCs from consumers (NYT)

Several carriers warned Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) about its built-in Sim cards (FT)

Greek budget problems have been made worse by the nation’s ability to reach goals for tax receipts. (Bloomberg)

China will probably raise rates in an attempt to undermine inflation (Bloomerg)

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) halted a trial of their experimental blood thinner apixaban (Bloomberg)

VW’s board will look at spending plans to help it pass Toyota (NYSE: TM) as the world’s No.1 car company (Bloomberg)

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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