Media Digest (1/29/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Yahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue rises in the fourth quarter, but only slightly. (Reuters)

Detroit probably will file for bankruptcy. (Reuters)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) will put $250 million into venture funds. (Reuters)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) says it will fight to prevent government access to its email customers. (Reuters)

Daimler, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and Nissan will cooperate on developing fuel-cell cars. (Reuters)

The U.S. government wants Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE: RBS) to plead guilty to criminal charges over interest rate manipulation. (WSJ)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) may buy parts of NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) ahead of its merger with IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE). (WSJ)

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) will return to more discount sales, reversing earlier plans. (WSJ)

VMWare Inc. (NYSE: VMW) cuts costs as its sales slow sharply. (WSJ)

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) will try to recapture corporate customers with its new BlackBerry. (WSJ)

AMR and some of its unions agree to a contract set in case the carrier merges with US Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC). (WSJ)

Japanese regulators have not yet found the source of flaws in the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner. (WSJ)

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) continues to have trouble in markets outside the United States. (WSJ)

Royalty payments made to artists from firms that include Spotify and Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) have plunged. (NYT)

Yahoo! shows it could gain ground on Google, based on its earnings report. (FT)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) begins to use its 188 million customer database to target more ads. (FT)

The European Union may allow Spain a more liberal budget on worry that austerity could further damage its economy. (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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