Media Digest (1/5/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

The SEC is faced with the challenge between disclosure of public and private companies as Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) invested $450 million in Facebook. (Reuters)

US officials said it was critical for China to bring down its trade imbalance. (Reuters)

The closing of Borders (NYSE: BGP) could hurt book publishers who need large distribution networks for their products. (Reuters)

Commodities has a large sell-off . (Reuters)

Toshiba will make an aggressive move into “glasses free” 3D TV. (Reuters)

Protectionism may hurt cross border M&A in Asia. (Reuters)

Dogan Yayin of Turkey may sell some of its assets to KKR or Time Warner. (NYSE:TWX)

Lorilland will fight to keep its menthol snuff on the market as it faces an FDA ban. (WSJ)

The Fed held to its plan to buy $600 billion in bonds. (WSJ)

Sales of cars in the US rose as more manufacturers competed for market share. (WSJ)

Banks have begun to raise fees on some products to offset government limits on others. (WSJ)

Bond buyers are worried about prepayments of corporate debt. (WSJ)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) are no longer the close partners they were now that each pursues different goals. (WSJ)

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) may buy Atheros. (WSJ)

Coal prices rose due to floods in Australia. (WSJ)

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has added to its offerings of web video combined with traditional TV. (WSJ)

Euro-zone inflation moved up more than expected. (WSJ)

Mine-safety officials have often been slow in examining problems within the industry. (WSJ)

China will put into effect a number of price limit regulations. (WSJ)

Borders Group will ask publishers to accept much longer payment periods. (WSJ)

Insurance companies sued Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) over claims of unintended acceleration. (WSJ)

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will offer less expensive 4G phones. (WSJ)

Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) was the top bank for private equity last year. (WSJ)

The value of real estate in Spain may continue to drop. (WSJ)

American Air (NYSE: AMR) continued its battle with online ticket sites. (NYT)

The Fed said its concerns over deflation had fallen. (NYT)

The International Energy Agency says the price of oil could undermine the global recovery. (FT)

Large companies have increased their efforts to raise more debt. (FT)

Ford (NYSE: F) topped Toyota (NYSE: TM) in US car sales. (FT)

The market share of the Firefox browser moved ahead of Microsoft Internet Explorer in Europe. (Bloomberg)

Lexus kept the top sport in US luxury car sales just ahead of BMW and Mercedes. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre