Media Digest (1/25/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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U.S. regulators say that their investigation into the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner is far from over. (Reuters)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) must decide whether it wants market share in China or a reputation as the provider of smartphones to the very top of the consumer base. (Reuters)

Lenovo management says Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) may be a takeover target. (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) profits are hurt in part because it has not released a new version of its Office product. (Reuters)

The CEO of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) made only $6 million last year. (Reuters)

Citigroup Inc.’s (NYSE: C) private bank will take $187 million out of SAC Capital, which is under government investigation. (WSJ)

Samsung posts record profits on smartphone and chip sales. (WSJ)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) adds 780,000 contract customers in the most recent quarter, which trails the 2.1 million added by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). (WSJ)

Sales in China help Starbucks Corp.’s (NASDAQ: SBUX) overall revenue in the most recent quarter. (WSJ)

The S&P finally moves above the important 1,500 level. (NYT)

Samsung says price wars could hurt future profits. (FT)

Apple announces that labor audits of its suppliers show more poor worker conditions. (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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