Media Digest (8/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

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San Bernadino, Calif., will file for Chapter 11 over $1 billion in debt. (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve says it may need to help the economy later this year. (Reuters)

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) recalls 760,000 RAV4 models in the United States. (Reuters)

A U.S. court revives InterDigital Inc.’s (NASDAQ: IDCC) lawsuit against Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK). (Reuters)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) launches an instant video app for the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. (Reuters)

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) presses plans to become independent from the U.S. government. (WSJ)

Fidelity Investments sold its Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares early on in the social network’s period as a public company. (WSJ)

Sharp Corp. says its losses grew and it will fire 5,000 people. (WSJ)

A judge rules in favor of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in an IP case against Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) and may seek $4 billion in damages. (WSJ)

Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) loss widens again. (WSJ)

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) post poor sales in July. (WSJ)

Avon Product Inc.’s (NYSE: AVP) new CEO wants to settle a bribery probe brought by the government. (WSJ)

Michigan will destroy thousands of abandoned homes in Detroit. (WSJ)

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann voices objections to the European Central Bank buying sovereign debt. (WSJ)

Greek leaders agree to a new austerity plan to get bailout dollars. (WSJ)

The head of the International Monetary Fund says the world has entered a period of declining confidence. (WSJ)

The cost to split Kraft Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: KFT) into two pieces will total more than $1.5 billion. (WSJ)

The drought hurts the cattle market. (WSJ)

Moore Global Investment will give back $2 billion to investors as its results turn poor. (NYT)

As an ECB meeting approaches, the market expects the bank to boost Europe’s finances. (FT)

Many educated Greeks move to Germany. (FT)

S&P confirms its view of Germany’s AAA rating as stable. (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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