Media Digest (10/3/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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The only way to fix the U.S. economy may be massive debt reductions for individuals and governments. (Reuters)

Greece misses GDP targets. (Reuters)

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) buys mobile navigation company Telmap. (Reuters)

Alibaba’s CEO says he wanted his company to buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters)

Warren Buffett buys more shares in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in a show of support. (Reuters)

Obama to send trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Columbia to Congress to resolve their fates. (WSJ)

Citigroup (NYSE: C) may shake up Tokyo management after problems with the government. (WSJ)

Global investors set a move to safety as a primary goal. (WSJ)

IMF’s concerns grow about any global expansion. (WSJ)

Daimler’s CEO says truck sales strengthen. (WSJ)

Many well-educated Americans lack skills to be employed. (WSJ)

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new iPhone faces the risk that there are not many phones like it. (WSJ)

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) expects strong results from China. (WSJ)

Companies with large numbers of Facebook fans try to figure out how to use them. (WSJ)

Long-term Treasuries were one of the best investments of recent quarters. (WSJ)

IPO numbers have fallen sharply. (WSJ)

Mashable, a site about online culture, draws many advertisers. (NYT)

Bob Pittman named CEO of Clear Channel. (NYT)

Hong Kong stocks hit their lowest level since May 2009 on EU worries. (FT)

Some in the Congress push for legislation on China currency manipulation. (FT)

Drought batters Texas cattle industry. (FT)

Greece to cut another $8.8 billion to bring its budget closer to 2012 goals. (Bloomberg)

Euro hits a multimonth low against the dollar. (Bloomberg)

So far, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) beats Apple in India’s smartphone market. (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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