Media Digest (10/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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When the G20 meets, the focus will be on the EU crisis. (Reuters)

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Q3 numbers kill concerns about U.S. ad markets. (Reuters)

JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) earnings pull down equity markets. (Reuters)

Economic troubles in emerging markets undermine GDP growth in China, Brazil and India. (WSJ)

Hulu stops trying to find a buyer. The company is owned by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) and the NBCU division of Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. (WSJ)

Spain’s deficit could cause more problems for EU finances. (WSJ)

Gap (NYSE: GPS) to close 20% of its stores. (WSJ)

Lenovo passes Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) as the world’s number two PC company. (WSJ)

The Pentagon may cut its purchase of large aircraft carriers. (WSJ)

American incomes have dropped since 2000 and are not expected to make up ground until 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal poll. (WSJ)

Another UAW local turns down a proposed contract with Ford (NYSE: F). (WSJ)

China car sales to rise only 3% this year. (WSJ)

The FCC questions AT&T (NYSE: T) about its claim that a T-Mobile buyout could create 96,000 jobs. (WSJ)

The PIMCO Total Return Fund will have a poor return this year. (WSJ)

People with eating disorders fight insurers for benefit coverage. (NYT)

EU banks face new deadlines as the restructure of Greek debt nears. (NYT)

The U.S. will allow BP (NYSE: BP) to bid for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. (NYT)

China’s inflation falls to 6.1% in September. (FT)

S&P cuts Spain’s credit rating. (Bloomberg)

Apple (NYSE: AAPL) iPhone 4S sales may hit 4 million as the handset launches. (Bloomberg)

Google continues to seek deals with record labels for distribution. (Bloomberg)

Portugal plans deeper cuts to reach budget goals. (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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