Media Digest (8/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes

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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and will be chairman. Tim Cook to take over as CEO. (Reuters)

Gold falls sharply and may be hurt by CME (NASDAQ: CME) margin requirements. (Reuters)

Hulu has interest from Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV). (Reuters)

The FCC asks AT&T (NYSE: T) for more information on its bid for T-Mobile. (Reuters)

Demand for junk bonds nearly disappears. (WSJ)

The CBO says the real estate market makes economic forecasts difficult. (WSJ)

European banks face difficulty getting new funds to bolster balance sheets. (WSJ)

France offers new budget cuts and plans to accelerate growth to close budget gaps. (WSJ)

The SEC wants more information about fracking from companies that employ the practice. (WSJ)

Google settles drug ad violation with Canada for $500 million. (WSJ)

A Dutch court bans some Samsung phones due to violations of Apple patents. (WSJ)

Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) says there is a tech demand slowdown. (WSJ)

Carriers work with outside tech firms to expand broadband mobile capacity. (WSJ)

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) upgrades its smartphones. (WSJ)

Japan continues to work to bring down the yen. (WSJ)

Obama may push to allow people to refinance mortgages at current low rates. (NYT)

Companies move production of rare earths to China, which has over 90% of the world’s capacity. (NYT)

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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