Media Digest (6/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jun 18, 6:34AM EDT

The pro-austerity party wins the election in Greece and will try to build a coalition. (Reuters)

India surprises analysts by keeping its rates as is, despite a slow economy. (Reuters)

The FCC will further explore radiation from cellphones. (Reuters)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) had considerable control over the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO. (WSJ)

An IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer sets a new speed record for calculations. (WSJ)

G. “Mike” Mikan, the interim CEO of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), lobbies for the job to be permanent. (WSJ)

Samsung’s CEO says the company needs to make more advancements in its software business. (WSJ)

G20 leaders will push hard for global growth initiatives. (WSJ)

Europe’s big banks do not want a more unified region because it could put weak financial firms more on par with stronger ones. (NYT)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) turns up its map competition with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). (NYT)

Royalties from digital radio start to rise. (NYT)

More analysts expect Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to launch its own tablet. (FT)

The solar market in Japan moves as high as $10 billion. (Bloomberg)

Nissan believes it can double sales of its Leaf electric car in the United States. (Bloomberg)

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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.

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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.