Media Digest (3/14/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

March 14, 2013 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Netflix logoThe head of marketing at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) criticizes Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android software and its largest adopter, Samsung. (Reuters)

Citadel will sell the shares it still has in E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETFC). (WSJ)

Competition hurts China Mobile Ltd.’s (NYSE: CHL) earnings. (WSJ)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) cuts the price of its Kindle Fire HD tablet. (WSJ)

As U.S. retail sales rose last month, consumers saved less. (WSJ)

The head of the Google Android business will move to another job and the head of Chrome operations will take over. (WSJ)

Renault will produce more cars in France, and in exchange, unions will accept pay freezes. (WSJ)

Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) agree to new employee clawback provisions after pressure from New York State. (WSJ)

Early tests of the batteries on the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner are not set to predict future problems. (NYT)

A Solar Energy Industries Association study shows rapid growth of solar adoption in the United States. (NYT)

President Obama says he will increase pressure about cyberattacks that originate in China. (FT)

Germany says it will reject stimulus in favor of budget cuts. (FT)

Finance ministers at a European Union summit likely will ask to lessen budget demands on many weak nations. (Bloomberg)

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