Media Digest (8/8/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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In the copyright case between Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), the judge asks for names of paid reporters and bloggers who work for the companies. (Reuters)

The government reports that job openings reached a four-year high, but hiring slowed. (Reuters)

EBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has taken some large retailers from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and competition between the two grows. (Reuters)

Corelogic reports that home prices rose in June. (WSJ)

HTC investors begin to abandon shares of the former smartphone rival of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung. (WSJ)

Walt Disney Co.’s (NYSE: DIS) earnings are helped by revenue from movie “The Avengers.” (WSJ)

Italy’s economy moves deeper into a recession. (WSJ)

The European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund press for more laws that erode union influence in the financially weakest nations in the region. (WSJ)

Strikes by workers at Hyundai and Kia could hurt parent company earnings. (WSJ)

A decline in cable and satellite TV subscriptions has raised the issue of whether competition from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google’s YouTube has hurt traditional methods that bring video to the home. (WSJ)

The SEC will soon vote on new rules for the money market mutual fund business. (WSJ)

Yields on U.S. junk rating bonds reach new lows. (FT)

Japan’s trade deficit rises rapidly in the first half. (FT)

S&P lowers its outlook on Greece’s debt. (Bloomberg)

ING Groep NV’s (NYSE: ING) profits fall 22%, in part due to exposure to Spain’s bonds. (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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