Media Digest (1/11/2013) Reuters, WSH, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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A Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 operated by ANA develops a crack in the cockpit glass. (Reuters)

American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) will cut 5,400 jobs and take a charge in its fourth quarter. (Reuters)

Research firm IDC says worldwide PC sales fell 6.4% in the fourth quarter to 89.8 million. (Reuters)

SAC could lose 17% of the outside funds it manages as a government investigation into its trading practices ramps up. (WSJ)

The FAA says it will start a high-priority review of the 787. (WSJ)

Long-term joblessness, one of the economy’s largest problems, begins to ease. (WSJ)

The Federal Reserve sends $89 billion in profits to the Treasury Department. (WSJ)

The Japanese government sets $115.7 billion in new stimulus. (WSJ)

Volkwagen’s U.S. sales rise 31% in 2012 as its attempts to move to the top tier of auto firms. (WSJ)

Sales of Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) Lumia phones help improve its earnings for the most recent quarter. (NYT)

A presentation by the management of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) fails to impress investors worried about the accuracy of the firm’s earnings. (NYT)

European Union antitrust officials are likely to be aggressive about what they view as antitrust actions by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). (FT)

The head of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) says he expects China to become its largest smartphone market. (FT)

Congress members release information that shows Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) management knew about Mexico bribes as early as 2005. (FT)

The European Central Bank will move from work on the financial crisis to efforts to rekindle economic growth. (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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