Media Digest (6/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Fitch said a voluntary roll-over of Greece sovereign debt would be viewed as a default. (Reuters)

This week is critical to US budget talks as an August 2 deadline looms. (Reuters)

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) won a case in which female employees sought to file a class action discrimination suit. (Reuters)

Facebook moved into the top spot among US sites based on display advertising market share. (Reuters)

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launched its first Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows-powered smartphone. (Reuters)

VCs still back China net start-ups despite accounting scandals dogging some of  them. (Reuters)

Foster rejected a $10 billion offer from SAB Miller. (Reuters)

Inflation in China has been passed on to the cost of many US goods, which causes inflation. (WSJ)

Financial regulators sued JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and RBS over $3 billion in mortgage bonds sold to credit unions.  (WSJ)

The EU linked aid to budget cuts. (WSJ)

The American Customer Satisfaction Index showed airline ratings fell. (WSJ)

The Labor Department plans to ask companies to reveal more about attempts by their workers to unionize. (WSJ)

The IMF said debt problems in Europe could cripple the economic recovery. (WSJ)

Heavy orders for Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Airbus planes were based on a need for airlines to find fuel-efficient equipment.  (WSJ)

The head of Boeing said the firm would win a fight with the National Labor Relations Board over the staffing of a new factory. (WSJ)

EMI is for sale again and could be broken up. (WSJ)

LightSquared, meant to deliver new 4G service, may cause problems with national GPS systems. (WSJ)

Low interest rates offered by banks to large companies may not cover the risk involved. .(WSJ)

The FTC will consider whether the prices of oil futures were manipulated (WSJ)

Tepco’s credit rating was cut to junk.  (WSJ)

A government audit shows food recalls of foreign foods are done too slowly. (NYT)

China has shifted investment dollars from the US to EU region debt. (FT)

Norway’s oil fund expressed support for the viability of the euro. (Bloomberg)

A Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) takeover by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) seems more likely. (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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