Media Digest (7/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may face a bribery probe in the U.S. (Reuters)

An Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) patent lawyer may leave the firm (Reuters)

China bank lending picked up. This could cause more inflation (Reuters)

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) may fire 10,000 workers (Reuters)

Sprint Nextel (NASDAQ: S) has received subpoenas from nine states with regard to the AT&T (NYSE: T) buyout of T-Mobile (Reuters)

Apple filed new patent claims against HTC (Reuters)

Markets were upset over concerns that Italy’s debt situation was worse than thought (WSJ)

Hedge funds have started to invest more in private internet companies (WSJ)

China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) plans to build out 4G networks (WSJ)

Shareholders sued News Corp over the effects of the UK scandals (WSJ)

NCR will buy Radiant Systems for over $1.1 billion (WSJ)

Cisco will update its high-end switching product (WSJ)

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) will try to get the online sales tax issue on the statewide ballot in California (WSJ)

EU finance ministers suggested that bailout facilities be expanded (NYT)

As part of an $8.2 billion mortgage settlement Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will turn over home loans to other customer, which could accelerate foreclosures (NYT)

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) reorganized to drive overseas growth (NYT)

Dunkin Donuts will raise $460 million in an IPO (NYT)

Banks have offered attractive rates to get more hedge fund business (FT)

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) earnings doubled (FT)

China’s satellite surveillance technology has begun to rival America’s (FT)

News Corp has lost $7 billion in market cap over the last four days (Bloomberg)

Portugal’s GDP will fall this year and next because of austerity measures (Bloomberg)

The People’s Bank of China said money supply grew in the People’s Republic last month (Bloomberg)

Moody’s said a number of Chinese companies have poor governance (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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