Media Digest (6/3/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Employment is likely to be hurt by the weak economy. (Reuters)

Hackers attacked a new Sony (NYSE: SNE) network. (Reuters)

A Prada filing with the Hong Kong exchange showed $215 million in profits in the six months that ended in July. (Reuters)

Moody’s warned the US on its deficit and debt levels. (Reuters)

Groupon filed for an IPO and may raise $750 million. (Reuters)

The Treasury will sell its remaining shares in Chrysler to Fiat. (Reuters)

Mazda will end US production in two years and terminate its joint venture with Ford. (NYSE: F)

The government is examining the possibility of insider trading at the FDA. (WSJ)

A hack of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Gmail system targeted some White House employees. (WSJ)

The SEC began to examine auditors of a number of small publicly traded companies. (WSJ)

Moody’s warned on its ratings of Citigroup (NYSE: C), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). (WSJ)

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) will increase its activity in the Gulf of Mexico. (WSJ)

Google’s Android-based phones are further undermining Nokia (NYSE: NOK) smartphone sales. (WSJ)

Unions have pressed to change an Ohio law which limits their power. (WSJ)

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet suggested a common financial minister for the EU to solve some of its sovereign and bailout issues (WSJ)

China denied it was involved in a recent cyber-attack on Google’s Gmail. (WSJ)

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) hurried its move into China. (WSJ)

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) will step up its activity online. (WSJ)

Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) received a civil subpoena based on a Senate investigation of it actions during the credit crisis. (WSJ)

Groupon’s IPO would value the company at $30 billion. (NYT)

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) will test whether it can increase sales with smaller stores. (NYT)

News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may soon take control of BSkyB. (FT)

The EU and IMF said they are about to finish the review of Greece’s plan to sell assets and cut expenses in the amount of $113 billion. The plan may cause a new bailout for the country. (Bloomberg)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) finished new deal with music companies to launch its streaming music service. (Bloomberg)

Zynga is close to an IPO (Bloomberg)

Oil was near $100 before the US jobs report (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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