Media Digest (11/30/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi says Europe may have a second-half recovery. (Reuters)

Germany’s parliament will approve participation in the Greek bailout. (Reuters)

Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 is approved for distribution in China. (Reuters)

New data shows that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8 has not helped PC sales. (Reuters)

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) has challenges with digital distribution despite its success with television. (WSJ)

Corporations sell debt to make dividend payments to shareholders ahead of a possible fiscal cliff tax increase. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) can build its own games for the social network that hit game supplier Zynga Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ZNGA) stock. (WSJ)

Groupon Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GRPN) board keeps Andrew Mason as chief executive. (WSJ)

Third-quarter gross domestic product is revised to 2.7% from an initial estimate of 2%. (WSJ)

Detroit is about to become insolvent. (WSJ)

Hurricane Sandy undermines results for some U.S. retailers. (WSJ)

Some major creditors push for AMR to put in a new board before its comes out of Chapter 11. (WSJ)

Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) cuts its earnings outlook. (WSJ)

More investors put money into Spanish and Italian debt, pushing down borrowing costs. (WSJ)

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, which makes generic Lipitor, stops production because of trouble with capsules. (NYT)

India’s growth rate drops to 5.3%. (FT)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will take new steps to increase investor returns. (FT)

Microsoft will release a new version of Windows every year, a step to increase competition to Apple. (FT)

The results of a Bloomberg Global Poll show expectations of a recession in Germany next year. (Bloomberg)

U.K. consumer confidence reaches an 18-month high. (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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