Media Digest (5/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Liberty Media offered $1 billion for Barnes & Noble. (NYSE: BKS) (Reuters)

Tepco lost $15 billion. (Reuters)

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) expects to receive a summons from the US government shortly. (Reuters)

Gold rose as those who think it has fallen to much moved back into the market. (Reuters)

The price of LinkedIn more than doubled after its IPO. (Reuters)

Playboy will put is entire issue archive online. (Reuters)

Facebook is considering a push into China. (Reuters)

Spain may not have known about high debt in some of its regions. (WSJ)

The IEA said the world needs increased oil supply. (WSJ)

Gap’s (NYSE: GPS) earnings were hurt by high costs. (WSJ)

China food firms will look for M&A candidates outside the country. (WSJ)

Barnes & Noble will release a new e-reader to increase it competition with the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. (WSJ)

The ECB may cut funds to Greek banks if the US tries to alter the southern European country’s debt. (WSJ)

McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) defended its marketing practices.(WSJ)

Consumer products companies in China has shrunk the size of containers and wrappers to sell less product at the same price. (WSJ)

China moved ahead of India as the largest buyer of gold based on Q1 statistics. (WSJ)

Blackrock will buy back a stake owned by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) for about $2.5 billion. (WSJ)

Chrysler is close to repaying the federal government. (WSJ)

The Administration will probe insurers about high rates. (NYT)

A new study shows ways that spam email may be cut considerably. (NYT)

E-books now outsell print books at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). (NYT)

The IEA asked OPEC to increase production. (FT)

Apple has made deals with music labels for its cloud media product. (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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