Media Digest (10/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Spain’s unemployment rate rose to 21.5% last quarter. (MarketWatch)

EU officials not expecting China to invest in the region’s bailout, despite reports to the contrary. (Reuters)

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) to keep its PC unit. (Reuters)

MF Global (NYSE: MF) loses clients because of reports of its poor performance. (Reuters)

Samsung smartphone sales move ahead of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the Korean company says it expects a strong Q4. Samsung had 23.8% of the global smartphone market in the third quarter, 9 points higher than Apple. (Reuters)

Water use is growing faster than the world’s population, according to the World Resources Institute. (Reuters)

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and potential bidders are at odds over a complex nondisclosure agreement. (Reuters)

Baidu’s (NASDAQ: BIDU) earnings rise sharply as search revenue in China climbs. The local search engine now has 80% of the market. (Reuters)

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) sets up a surveillance system in India to help the government track BlackBerry use. (WSJ)

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) will not charge customers who use their debit cards for purchases. (WSJ)

Ahead of IPOs, the heads of Groupon and Zynga set up share systems that will give them more voting rights. (WSJ)

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) may try to find a buyer. (WSJ)

Poor results put Avon’s (NYSE: AVP) CEO Andrea Jung under pressure. (WSJ)

The NYSE and Nasdaq increase their competition for IPO listings. (WSJ)

Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is close to a deal to buy EMI. (WSJ)

Chrysler posts a $212 million quarterly profit. (WSJ)

A study by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire shows relocations in the U.S. have slowed. (NYT)

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) loses both voice and cable subscribers. (FT)

France may have to make more budget cuts to keep its AAA rating. (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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