Media Digest (9/26/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Europe begins to more aggressively look for problems to its debt crisis as pressure from the rest of the world grows. (Reuters)

Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new tablet PC may be a serious challenge to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. (Reuters)

Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner finally delivered to its first customer. (Reuters)

Legal problems to affect sales of tablet PCs and chips. (Reuters)

The timing of Groupon’s IPO is now uncertain. (WSJ)

UBS (NYSE: UBS) CEO Oswald Grübel’s resignation to cause problems as the firm tries to restructure its investment bank. (WSJ)

Academy of Management Journal says CEOs who are overpaid when they step down remain overpaid later. (WSJ)

Apple’s growth in China slows considerably. (WSJ)

European officials still cannot reach consensus about the region’s troubles. (WSJ)

China says it will not help a EU bailout. (WSJ)

Social unrest begins to grow in China due to inflation and struggles by workers for higher wages. (WSJ)

Chrysler’s talks with the UAW on minimum wages for new workers have stalled as the union begins talks with Ford (NYSE: F). (WSJ)

Todd Bradley, head of the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) PC division, still does not know the fate of his unit. (WSJ)

A rising dollar could hurt U.S. economic growth. (WSJ)

Several oil and gas companies prepare IPOs. (WSJ)

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) sets a deal to stream DreamWorks (NASDAQ: DWA) movies, besting Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) HBO. (NYT)

The Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that many consumers look to local newspapers and TV stations for some critical information. The Pew Internet & American Life Project also worked on the study. (NYT)

Work by the Congressional Super Committee to reduce the deficit has slowed quickly. (NYT)

Gold prices hurt as investors move into cash. (FT)

U.S. tax authorities to look to cross-board bank transactions for money. (FT)

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) cuts some top management jobs. (FT)

Large U.S. and international banks, including Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), differed on how to address the EU crisis as they met on the subject last week. (Bloomberg)

Apple cuts orders for the iPad for the fourth quarter, according to suppliers. (Bloomberg)

PIMCO forecasts a recession in Europe next year. (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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