Media Digest (4/3/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The Chinese services PMI rises to 55.6 in March — a recent high — from 54.5 in February. (Reuters)

The Securities and Exchange Commission says public companies may release information over social media such as Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter. (Reuters)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) soon will sell a second generation Lexus 7 tablet. (Reuters)

Apartment vacancy rates fall to the lowest level since 2001. (Reuters)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) drops its rating on Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) to Sell. (Reuters)

Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) shares fall after Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will not buy out its position in Verizon Wireless. (Reuters)

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) now originates 28.8% of all U.S. mortgages. (WSJ)

Ron Johnson, the CEO of J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), receives no bonus for last year. (WSJ)

The U.S. energy industry pushes to export oil for the first time in decades. (WSJ)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch the next generation iPhone as soon as the second quarter. (WSJ)

In March, U.S. auto sales reach their highest level since 2007. (NYT)

The European Union increases its scrutiny of Google’s privacy practices. (FT)

BP PLC (NYSE: BP) will sell its American wind power division. (FT)

BMW’s U.S. sales bring it closer to sales of Mercedes. (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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