Media Digest (1/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

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Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters)

The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters)

Greece and private creditors race to settle on a deal to avoid a financially dangerous default. (Reuters)

Fallout from the Chinese housing bubble may hit GDP. (Reuters)

More Americans use savings to help during what remains a harsh economic climate. (Reuters)

Olympus says the potential of an equity partner would be delayed until new management receives appointments. (Reuters)

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) plans to cut 1,600 people when it breaks into two companies. (Reuters)

Asia-based companies may buy Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM); Samsung states it has no interest. (Reuters)

Calpers plans to sell much of its real estate portfolio. (WSJ)

A Harvard Business School project finds that graduates voice concerns about the tax code and political gridlock. (WSJ)

More companies buy Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Macs than in past years. (WSJ)

Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) report loan growth as they announce earnings. (WSJ)

More Chinese citizens now live in cities rather than rural areas. (WSJ)

Spain plans to cut debt within it major states. (WSJ)

The National Science Board says more R&D jobs have moved to Asia. (WSJ)

The National Automobile Dealers Association says new fuel economy rules would damage sales. (WSJ)

An Abu Dhabi-based fund puts money into struggling UniCredit. (WSJ)

The FDIC proposes bank stress tests. (WSJ)

The United States Conference of Mayors says few cities have added jobs since the recession. (NYT)

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos says many investors in Greek sovereign paper will take large losses. (NYT)

Factory growth in the U.S. beats that among all G7 nations. (FT)

The World Bank says developing nations should prepare for a poor economic environment. (FT)

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Barclays (NYSE: BCS), Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will all bid for AIG (NYSE: AIG) debt portfolios held by the U.S. government. (FT)

Central banks increase the gold they lend for the first time in a decade. (FT)

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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