Media Digest (9/12/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Mark Zuckerberg makes a rare public appearance and expresses disappointment about Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares but says that the company will push forward in mobile. (Reuters)

Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share price will depend to some extent on whether the iPhone 5 will be different enough from offerings from competitors. (Reuters)

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) expects PC demand to remain strong in the future. (Reuters)

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) to decide who will succeed CEO Alan Mulally. (WSJ)

The head of Legg Mason (NYSE: LM) departs. (WSJ)

Samsung and Apple begin to gather 4G patents. (WSJ)

What companies paid for worker health care rose only 4% last year. (WSJ)

Premier Wen Jiabao says China will reach its 7.5% GDP expansion goal, but Manpower data indicate job creation has slowed. (WSJ)

Natural gas powered plants hurt activity at those powered by coal. (WSJ)

PepsiCo Inc.’s (NYSE: PEP) president leaves, altering the firm’s plans to pick a new CEO. (WSJ)

Acer’s new smartphone will use the Alibaba operating system. (WSJ)

The International Monetary Fund says new banking rules are unlikely to change its ability to operate freely. (WSJ)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) buys out its portion of a brokerage joint venture from Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) for less than expected. (WSJ)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) adds new warehouses to speed deliveries but must pay sales tax in many states where the facilities are based. (NYT)

Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) may cut the rating of the United States because of political gridlock and the fiscal cliff. (FT)

The European Union proposes that the European Central Bank have some regulatory power over the region’s banks. (Bloomberg)

The Federal Reserve likely will implement QE3 and extend low-rate plans into 2015. (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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