Media Digest (2/7/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Brief government spending cuts brought on by disagreements in Congress could badly hurt the economy. (Reuters)

Earnings at Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) are fueled by cable TV success. (Reuters)

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) may offer replacement batteries for its 787s. (WSJ)

A merger between U.S. Airways (NYSE: LCC) and AMR would create the world’s largest airline. (WSJ)

States that have joined the fraud suit against McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.’s (NYSE: MHP) S&P unit could cost more than federal action. (WSJ)

Troubled telecom equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) will fire its chief executive. (WSJ)

Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) earnings improve as it turns around its TV operations. (WSJ)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will charge more for ads that run on mobile devices. (WSJ)

Coal exports overseas surged to 120 million tons last year. (WSJ)

News Corp. is in the midst of a decision about keeping its ownership in BSkyB. (FT)

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) sales are hurt in China as some of its models did not make the New Year’s sales period. (Bloomberg)

India forecasts its growth will be the slowest in a decade. (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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