Media Digest (10/17/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn says an underage worker was used at one of its facilities. (Reuters)

Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ: INTC) earnings raise more concern about PC sales. (Reuters)

A fight with the Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) board of directors causes the exit of Vikram Pandit. (Reuters)

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is likely to name a new CEO. (WSJ)

Battery maker A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) files for Chapter 11. (WSJ)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) prices its new Surface tablet at $499. (WSJ)

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) revenue shows clients may be cutting IT budgets. (WSJ)

The U.S. Postal System reaches its $15 billion borrowing cap. (WSJ)

Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) says it will match prices of e-commerce firms, including Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). (WSJ)

Coca-Cola Co.’s (NYSE: KO) earnings will be challenged by a weaker Chinese economy. (WSJ)

The European Union presses Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) to change its privacy policy for users. (NYT)

Spain moves closer to requesting a bailout. (NYT)

MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) is passing more data it collects to advertisers. (FT)

Apple will launch its iPad mini next week. (FT)

Retirement will be harder for many EU workers. (Bloomberg)

Spain keeps its Moody’s investment grade rating. (Bloomberg)

New management at Citigroup will be likely to cut costs. (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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