Media Digest (4/22/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
By Douglas A. McIntyre Published
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them.

Samsung filed patent lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over smartphone technology (Reuters)

The Japanese government will release $50 billion to cover initial costs of the earthquake (Reuters)

The Administration will create a group to examine oil market trading fraud as its looks for reasons gas prices have risen (Reuters)

Apple and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) use tracking technology in the mobile operating systems to follow customer behavior (WSJ)

The dollar moved toward a record low (Reuters)

Apple has completed an online music storage product ahead of Google (Reuters)

AT&T (NYSE: T) argued the competitive benefits of its T-mobile deal to the FCC (Reuters)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will raise the pay of a large portion of its workers (Reuters)

Amazon.com and Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY) spend huge amounts of money to compete with one another but Wall St. still searches for ways the investments get returns (Reuters)

The NYSE (NYSE: NYX) board rejected a higher bid by Nasdaq (NYSE: NDAQ) and ICE (Reuters)

M&A may be critical to Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) mobile tech plans (Reuters)

A new NYT/CBS poll shows a sharp drop in impressions Americans have about the future of the nation (NYT)

Wall St. and banks have begun to lobby and work to mold the effects of Dodd-Frank (WSJ)

The CEO of PG&E will leave after a series of safety problems (WSJ)

Toyota (NYSE: TM) plans to return to full operations by the end of the year (WSJ)

Problems with the Amazon service center hurt access to a large number of sites (WSJ)

Big storms in the US will hurt insurance company results (WSJ)

China may buy more bonds of EU nations as they struggle to find bailout cash (WSJ)

Airlines try to balance capacity with fuel prices (WSJ)

GM’s (NYSE: GM) CEO made $2.5 million last year (WSJ)

Tobacco company profits as helped by higher retail prices by hurt by a drop in smokers (WSJ)

The government has pushed TV operators to give up spectrum for cellular service providers (NYT)

Sales of “green” products has been hurt by tight consumer spending (NYT)

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) face a harsh future despite its joint venture with Microsoft (NYT)

Greece will investigate market rumors that it will restructure debt (FT)

Advertising and circulation continued a relentless drop at the New York Times (NYSE: NYT)

Douglas A. McIntyre

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
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.

Featured Reads

Our top personal finance-related articles today. Your wallet will thank you later.

Continue Reading

Top Gaining Stocks

CBOE Vol: 1,568,143
PSKY Vol: 12,285,993
STX Vol: 7,378,346
ORCL Vol: 26,317,675
DDOG Vol: 6,247,779

Top Losing Stocks

LKQ
LKQ Vol: 4,367,433
CLX Vol: 13,260,523
SYK Vol: 4,519,455
MHK Vol: 1,859,865
AMGN Vol: 3,818,618