Media Digest (1/15/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The Japanese government says the future image of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 is at risk as the U.S. government probes problems with the plane. (Reuters)

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may be taken private. (Reuters)

An Insure.com study says the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Edge SE is the cheapest car to insure. (Reuters)

Worries about iPhone 5 sales drag down Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares. (Reuters)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares move higher ahead of earnings and a new announcement about its business. (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve sets terms for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) to improve risk management. (WSJ)

Bernanke says the Fed will continue to buy bonds as the U.S. economy remains weak. (WSJ)

Old car and truck emissions are one of the roots of China’s air pollution problems. (WSJ)

Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) says sales in China have nearly recovered to levels from before a territorial dispute between Japan and the People’s Republic. (WSJ)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) falls behind Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) as the world’s largest car company by unit sales for 2012. (WSJ)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) plans to hire any veteran who wants a job, if the person left the military last year, which could create 100,000 new positions. (NYT)

New Facebook features could challenge Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) position in the search business. (NYT)

The Atlantic Wind Connection will start to built an offshore transmission line. (NYT)

The European Commission attacks China over illegal subsidies for steel. (FT)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) cuts its Asia investment bank jobs by as much as 15%. (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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