Media Digest (5/16/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The number of shares Facebook will sell rose 25% and the company could raise as much as $16 billion. (Reuters)

Greeks take hundreds of millions of dollars out of banks there and the government calls national elections. (Reuters)

Shares of JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) fall sharply after it announces poor earnings. (Reuters)

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) says commodities prices will drop more than they have in the past month. (Reuters)

T-Mobile USA will cut 900 jobs as its subscriber count falls. (Reuters)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) will stop advertising on Facebook because of poor results. (Reuters)

Global mobile phone sales drop 2% in the first quarter, according to Gartner. (Reuters)

Activist fund Relational Investors takes a $600 million stake in PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and may press to shake up management and strategy. (WSJ)

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) begins to move graphics functions from PCs to the cloud. (WSJ)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) sharply increases the size of its work force. (WSJ)

House Speaker John Boehner says an increase in the national borrowing level would need to be accompanied by budget cuts. (WSJ)

Two of seven transport workers unions reject contract offers from bankrupt AMR, leaving a judge to decide their fates. (WSJ)

The FBI begins investigating the trading at JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) that created a $2 billion loss. (NYT)

As consumers move away from soda, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) must rely more on bottled water sales. (NYT)

Merkel and Hollande say they want Greece to remain in the eurozone and state that stimulus measures might be in order. (FT)

European car sales fall more than 6% in April, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. (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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