Media Digest (1/18/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

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U.S. investigations of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner focus on its main battery. (Reuters)

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) offers a weak outlook for future quarters. (Reuters)

China’s gross domestic product grows at 7.9% in the fourth quarter, which was better than expected. (Reuters)

China reports that income inequality has improved but still remains a major problem. (Reuters)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) could have a pension fund charge as high as $10 billion. (Reuters)

Emails may be key to a case brought over the antipoaching agreements among Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Intel. (Reuters)

The buyout industry could benefit from new deal flow if a Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) effort to go private works. (WSJ)

Liberty Media Corp. (NASDAQ: LMCAD) pushes its ownership of Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) above 50%. (WSJ)

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) will start an aircraft leasing business. (WSJ)

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that Americans are pessimistic about the economy. (WSJ)

Boeing gave the FAA data on the safety of its batteries before the agency approved the plane for service. (WSJ)

General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) financial operations are expected to be more than half of earnings when it announces 2012 results. (WSJ)

HerbaLife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) says fourth-quarter numbers were above expectations. (WSJ)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) launches a new music service aimed at Apple. (WSJ)

Christine LaGarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, says the global recovery remains shaky. (NYT)

In 2012, China recorded its slowest growth in 13 years. (FT)

Earnings from Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) raise concerns they have not fully recovered from the credit crisis. (FT)

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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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