Media Digest (4/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The NYSE (NYSE: NYX) said an M&A deal with Deutsche Boerse would offer greater savings than a NASDAQ (NYSE: NDAQ) deal. (Reuters)

Silver rose 5% on the dollar’s weakness. (Reuters)

The housing market may be at the start of a comeback. (Reuters)

Trouble in Yemen pushed Brent crude above $124. (Reuters)

Low parts supplies for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad have caused cuts in the forecasts for its sales. (Reuters)

The annual profit at Nintendo fell by 52% on lower Wii sales. (Reuters)

Tenet turned down a larger offer from Community Healthcare.  (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve faced the prospect of how to take money out of the economy and when to do so. (WSJ)

Problems at a Boeing (NYSE: BA) factory are likely the cause of ruptures in 737 skins. (WSJ)

Apple iPhones track locations even when the feature is shut off.(WSJ)

Profits from large oil firms are likely to rise sharply. (WSJ)

Panasonic will up its battery manufacturing in China. (WSJ)

Michael Dell says Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL) will increase its presence in the tablet and smartphone markets. (WSJ)

The farm economy in California has started to improve. (WSJ)

Network TV ad sales have risen. (WSJ)

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has begun to test home grocery delivery. (WSJ)

An Amex study shows that good service has become more important to consumers. (WSJ)

A slow increase in wage increases set against rising inflation could cause a new recession. (WSJ)

Nintendo will release a new Wii next year. (NYT)

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has begun a number of programs to make mobile search more profitable. (NYT)

Digital advances and better VOD technology will make it more complicated for film firms to make money.  (NYT)

A new site called Storify is aimed to help journalists look through online news to get relevant results. (NYT)

GM (NYSE: GM) will attempt to make Chevrolet a global brand. (FT)

Nintendo expects profits to rise 42% this year with the help of a new 3D device. (Bloomberg)

Bill Gross of PIMCO has set himself against bond dealers based on his pessimism about US debt. (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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