Media Digest (7/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) profits fall slightly. (Reuters)

Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) forecast implies PC sales will be weak. (Reuters)

The head of the holding company for British Air and Iberia says an AMR merger with US Airways (NYSE: LCC) would help the industry. (Reuters)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) will increase its spending as the new Cadillac ATS tries to take share from BMW. (Reuters)

China’s Wen Jiabao says his nation needs to push for future job growth. (Reuters)

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) reports there will not be an import ban on its smartphones. (Reuters)

Some cable companies support DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) in its battle with Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) over programming rights. (WSJ)

Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) says it plans to increase capital by $15.67 billion before the end of the year. (WSJ)

GM’s Opel appoints a temporary CEO. (WSJ)

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) says profits will miss targets this year. (WSJ)

Several universities, including CalTech and Duke, to offer free courses available worldwide. (WSJ)

India to open some of its key industries to foreign ownership. (WSJ)

Greece will try to raise a bridge loan to cover some redemptions. (WSJ)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) targets corporate marketers with tools to manage relationships. (WSJ)

EU antitrust officials say Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) did not honor restrictions on its browser. (WSJ)

Yahoo!’s new CEO must bring in revenue and increase morale. (NYT)

A new study shows states will take years to rebound financially, even if the recession ends. (NYT)

The Federal Reserve says Libor is “structurally flawed.” (FT)

Profit estimates for Europe-based companies have been cut the most since 2009. (Bloomberg)

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares fall after research shows people used the site less than earlier in the year. (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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