Media Digest (9/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters)

Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls below targets. (Reuters)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have changed the tablet PC business with the introduction of the Kindle Fire. (Reuters)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) says its new UAW deal will have little effect on earnings. (Reuters)

Samsung says the chip industry will grow slowly next year. (Reuters)

Amazon’s Fire may force makers of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based tablets to adapt. (Reuters)

BP (NYSE: BP) may sell some of its assets to Reliance. (Reuters)

Obama health care laws to go before the Supreme Court. (WSJ)

Federal Reserve calls for more regulation of the money market fund industry. (WSJ)

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) hires Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to protect it from activist investors. (WSJ)

Samsung and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) reach a deal for the former to get licenses essential to its use of Android. (WSJ)

Amazon.com will collect California taxes by 2013. (WSJ)

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to buy out its share of a joint venture with Merck (NYSE: MRK). (WSJ)

Magazines to form alliances with Amazon.com for the Fire as a way to combat Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) monopoly. (WSJ)

Germany’s inflation rises, which may affect its ability to participate in an EU bailout. (WSJ)

Toyota (NYSE: TM) reports its first production increase since the March earthquake. (WSJ)

The Justice Department wants more information on Google’s buyout of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI). (WSJ)

Boeing (NYSE: BA) talks to Middle East bankers about financing plans that troubled EU banks may be unable to handle. (WSJ)

Citigroup (NYSE: C) says it will return capital to investors in upcoming years. (WSJ)

Some capital market investors have bought Greek bonds despite the high risk. (NYT)

Yale’s endowment rose 22% last year. (NYT)

Hearings over a $7 billion Canadian pipeline pit environmentalists against people who need jobs. (NYT)

SEC investigates mortgage loan practices of RBS (NYSE: RBS) and Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS). (FT)

A Bloomberg survey shows economists believe the Greek situation will get worse and the global economy will slow. (Bloomberg)

Ford (NYSE: F) to add 7,000 jobs in the next two years. (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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