Media Digest (2/4/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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Japan Airlines approaches Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) about the cost of its grounded 787 Dreamliner fleet. (Reuters)

Electric cars sales may be hurt as the industry considers hydrogen-powered vehicles. (Reuters)

BlackBerry faces challenges as its tries to move back into India and Indonesia. (Reuters)

Hackers get into 250,000 Twitter accounts. (Reuters)

Third Point, one of Yahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) largest shareholders, sells 11 million shares. (Reuters)

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is very close to a private equity buyout. (Reuters)

Low interest rates force large companies to put more into pensions. (WSJ)

The financial director and general counsel of Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) leaves the company. (WSJ)

HTC announces its margins may drop more as it releases earnings. (WSJ)

Swatch posts impressive numbers and reports that sales should continue to grow. (WSJ)

Fiat expects to buy the portion of Chrysler it does not own as early as 2014. (WSJ)

Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) reports it is considering a buyout offer from Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH), which competes with one from Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). (WSJ)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) attempt to take corporate cloud computing share from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). (WSJ)

Daimler will invest another $870 million in China in an attempt to gain sales in the crowded number one global market for cars. (WSJ)

An Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) parts supplier in China — Foxconn — will set a union vote. (FT)

Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) plans to enter the investment banking industry. (FT)

Panasonic reports a surge in profits after several quarters of trouble. (Bloomberg)

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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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