Media Digest 11/27/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Japan raised the idea that the G7 make a statement about the dollar.

Reuters:   Shoppers move into Black Friday with small budgets.

Reuters:   Dubai’s debt crisis raised the prospect of more trouble in the financial markets.

Reuters:   ING will make a $11 billion rights offering at a large discount.

Reuters:   One of the German states called Opel job cut plans “unacceptable”.

Reuters:   Tighter capital controls are emerging in Asia.

WSJ:   Large Wall St. firms are beginning to fund M&A deals again.

WSJ:   Sony (NYSE:SNE) is betting on 3D TV sales.

WSJ:   The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone will be sold in Korea.

WSJ:   Data show that the sharp recession may not, in the current case, be followed by a sharp recovery.

WSJ:   Big retailers like Target (NYSE:TGT), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and JC Penney (NYSE:JCP) have put sales online early to simulate traffic.

WSJ:   Video game sales are running out of momentum as holiday begin.

WSJ:   China is facing a protectionist backlash next year according to one organization.

FT:   Black Friday retail marketing is turning to social networks.

Bloomberg:   RBS (NYSE:RBS) has large exposure to Dubai debt.

Bloomberg:   Shipping prices could drop another year.

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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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