Media Digest (4/17/2013) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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The role of central banks in stimulus will be considered at International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G-20 gatherings. (Reuters)

Display ad revenue at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) drops sharply. (Reuters)

News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) will call its entertainment company 21st Century Fox. (Reuters)

Carl Icahn agrees to limit his stake in Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) but can join other bidders to make an offer for the company. (Reuters)

Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) will lengthen the number of days after which it pays suppliers, which will allow it access to $2 billion in cash. (WSJ)

A new IMF report attacks the results of austerity taken on by financially troubled nations. (WSJ)

A reservations system glitch limits American Airlines bookings and causes a number of flights to be halted. (WSJ)

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) completes tests of batteries on its Dreamliner 787, but the FAA has not approved them. (WSJ)

Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ: INTC) profits drop by 25% as PC sales tumble. (WSJ)

Investment manager John Paulson loses $1.5 billion in his bet on gold prices. (FT)

The drop in gold prices hits central bank asset values by $560 billion. (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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