Media Digest (1/30/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Hollywood_Sign_PB050006Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon retires as scandals around his tenure continue. (Reuters)

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) recalls 752,000 Corollas because of airbag problems. (Reuters)

Some at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) bet against trades by the London whale, which cost the firm more than $6 billion. (Reuters)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares reach an all-time high after it announces earnings. (Reuters)

A U.S. court refuses an effort by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to increase damages it received in a legal win against Samsung. (Reuters)

Nintendo moves to a loss after its new Wii posts poor sales. (Reuters)

Small investors returning to the market help push prices higher. (WSJ)

The Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program could reduce its profits. (WSJ)

Natural gas could replace nuclear as a means to power some plants. (WSJ)

A new version of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office can be rented on a license instead of purchased. (WSJ)

Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will allow some content creators to charge for their videos. (WSJ)

Profits of the Big Three continue to be hurt by European operations. (WSJ)

U.S. regulators have accelerated their investigation into mechanical problems with the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner. (WSJ)

H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE: HNZ) and Dial sue News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) over an alleged attempt to fix coupon prices. (WSJ)

Boeing was aware of problems with batteries of the 787 before some were taken out of service. (NYT)

The Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) launch of the BlackBerry 10 will go a long way to determine the prospects of the company. (NYT)

A new Apple iPad with more storage is part of the firm’s effort to challenge Microsoft. (FT)

Michael Dell will use his fortune in an attempt to gain control of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) after a leveraged buyout. (Bloomberg)

The National Statistics Institute reports that Spain’s gross domestic product fell 0.7% in the fourth quarter of last year. (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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