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Media Digest 8/30/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

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According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) has pushed out its top sales executive and combined its sales and e-commerce units.

Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) has purchased a corporate group chat provider.

Reuters writes that Apple (AAPL) is about to introduce a new series of iPods.

The Wall Street Journal writes that a battle between banks and KKR is heating up over the purchase of First Data (FDC).

The Wall Street Journal said that Altria (MO) was working on spinning off its international operations.

The Wall Street Journal says that Sony Ericsson is starting to build phones for the low end of the market.

The New York Times reports that the CFO of Gap (GPS) left to go to Visa.

The FT reports that the Pritzgers will sell a $1 billion stake in Hyatt Global.

Barron’s writes that Tivo (TIVO) issued weak Q4 guidance.

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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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