Media Digest (10/22/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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BP PLC (NYSE: BP) sets a deal to sell its half of BP-TNK to Rosneft. (Reuters)

European Union leaders will take at least two months to set terms for new rules for the organization and bailout terms. (Reuters)

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) settles its dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) and AMC Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCX). (Reuters)

A British private equity firm will take over Ancestry.com Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOM). (WSJ)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) tries to control how retailers display Windows 8. (WSJ)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) prices its Lumina below most competing smartphones. (WSJ)

Japan’s exports drop, largely because of trade disputes with China. (WSJ)

More companies start to use data from their work on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to help target ads. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) move into e-commerce could substantially improve profits. (WSJ)

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) will relaunch Disney.com to restart its web strategy. (NYT)

Weak U.S. earnings begin to pull down the market. (FT)

Germany will warn the United Kingdom not to use its veto power at an upcoming summit about Europe’s future. (FT)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will try to use sales to schools to boost iPad share. (Bloomberg)

Royal Philip Electronics beats earnings estimates as its new CEO appears to have set a winning strategy. (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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