Media Digest (10/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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The Obama administration announces a new plan to help underwater mortgage holders. (Reuters)

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) warns that more subscribers will cancel and shares fall 24%. (Reuters)

Nearly 35% of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) investors vote against James Murdoch as a member of the board. (Reuters)

Zynga will have its IPO in late November. (Reuters)

Amazon.com’s (NASADQ: AMZN) results could be hurt by the expense of the Kindle Fire. (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve may work to drive interest rates down again to help the home market. (Reuters)

The drop in BP’s (NYSE: BP) production has reached a bottom. (Reuters)

A judge turns down a Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) request to get internal documents from AT&T (NYSE: T). (Reuters)

Regulators examine more trades at SAC, some of which go back nine years. (WSJ)

Credit cards may use personal information to target advertising. (WSJ)

UBS (NYSE: UBS) profits fall. (WSJ)

More worries arise about an EU region recession. (WSJ)

Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) talks with hedge funds about financing. (WSJ)

Fedex (NYSE: FDX) predicts its holiday shipment volume will be strong. (WSJ)

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) reopens 13 stores in China. (WSJ)

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) begins to lure app developers for the BlackBerry. (WSJ)

Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) to put $250 million into 11 universities over the next several years to bring in top students. (WSJ)

The FAA requests that tail parts on Boeing (NYSE: BA) 757s be checked. (WSJ)

Mattel buys children’s toy company HIT Entertainment. (WSJ)

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has to quickly make new Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows-powered smartphones for the holiday season. (WSJ)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) to sell its subprime mortgage service company Saxon Mortgage Services. (WSJ)

Banks have few ways to make money on huge deposit pools. (NYT)

Greek bondholders resist plans for them to take 60% write-downs on the nation’s sovereign paper as a part of a restructuring. (FT)

U.S. mortgage bonds hit a six-month low on Obama’s home refinance program plans. (FT)

EU officials want more time to create a bailout facility. (Bloomberg)

Novartis (NYSE: NVS) to cut 2,000 people. (Bloomberg)

Banks in Italy and Spain may take the largest hits in an EU rescue plan. (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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