Media Digest (3/5/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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China will lean on consumer spending to expand its economy. (Reuters)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) faces more lawsuits over its initial public offering. (Reuters)

The White House says it believes people should be able to unlock their cell phone for use on more than one network. (Reuters)

Pew reports that debt among young people has dropped to a multiyear low. (WSJ)

The Chinese government drops annual GDP growth goals to 7.5%. (WSJ)

Citigroup Inc.’s (NYSE: C) new CEO, Michael Corbat, is more likely to track the performance of individual senior executives. (WSJ)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will combine some operations. (WSJ)

A senior General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) executive says the company will keep its Opel operations in Europe. (WSJ)

The CEO of H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE: HNZ) could make $200 million if he leaves the company after a buyout. (WSJ)

Theft of oil from Nigerian pipelines starts to sharply cut production. (WSJ)

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) will build LNG plants in Louisiana and Canada. (WSJ)

The chief of Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) says the return to service of the 787 will depend on how fast the FAA approves a potential fix. (WSJ)

Bond yields on Spanish and Italian debt narrow because of stability in Spain and instability in Italy. (WSJ)

Facebook creates an ad system that could take business from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). (WSJ)

Congress accuses key J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) executives of roles in the bank’s $6 billion loss. (NYT)

Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) will sell its gas stations as investors pressure it to restructure the company. (NYT)

Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares reach a 52-week low as Google’s reach an all-time high. (FT)

Boeing defends its decision to keep the battery used in its 787 Dreamliner. (FT)

European Union finance ministers may ease budget restraints to cure the fallout from austerity. (Bloomberg)

Pearson PLC (NYSE: PSO) executives tell the Financial Times that a number of positions will be cut. (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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