Media Digest (1/22/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) hit a 13-month high on a belief that new products could trigger a recovery. (Reuters)

The Japan central bank says it will ease as much as necessary to repair the nation’s economy. (Reuters)

The problems with Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner are beyond the charge in its main battery, according to government officials. (Reuters)

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) will begin to sell its new Xperia tablet in Japan. (Reuters)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) adopts a new “zero-tolerance policy” for suppliers to comply with its standards. (WSJ)

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is selling more of its Lotus software into expanding industries like social media. (WSJ)

Korea’s free trade agreement hurts sales of Hyundai and Kia cars. (WSJ)

Share buybacks by S&P 500 companies could lift per-share earnings. (WSJ)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) will face net income damage if they plan to continue to hold market share against Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). (WSJ)

China is expected to make more investments in aerospace, which may trouble many other nations. (NYT)

The International Labor Organization reports unemployment worldwide has surged. (NYT)

Silver Lake Partners faces challenges in taking profits from a “mature” Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) to pay down private equity loans. (FT)

Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa becomes a core part of the Boeing Dreamliner investigation. (FT)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) probably will post its first profit drop since 2003. (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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