Media Digest (11/29/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Deloitte and KPMG are sued for their parts in the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of Autonomy. (Reuters)

Samsung launches a Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based camera in Japan. (Reuters)

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) defends the company’s innovation track record and financial results. (Reuters)

Federal Reserve notes show the bank will buy bonds well into 2013. (WSJ)

Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) runs short on oil and gas reserves. (WSJ)

U.S. car companies expect 2012 growth to continue next year. (WSJ)

The U.S. government stops setting contracts with BP PLC (NYSE: BP) because of “lack of business integrity” tied to Deepwater Horizon. (WSJ)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and its Chinese partner will build a new commercial truck plant in the People’s Republic. (WSJ)

Lenovo creates products to try to gain share from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung in China. (WSJ)

The European Union will offer $48 billion in eurozone capital to bail out Spanish banks. (WSJ)

Slow growth in China and Europe’s recession hurt car sales outside the United States. (WSJ)

United Airlines continues to lose money and have labor problems two years after a merger with Continental to form United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL). (NYT)

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will be at the heart of the Obama administration’s effort to lobby Congress on fiscal cliff negotiations. (FT)

Moody’s cuts Hewlett-Packard’s rating to Baa1. (FT)

Japan’s retail sales fall in October as car sales falter. (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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