Media Digest (2/21/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

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Some Fed governors favor a slowing of bond buying to block possible inflation. (Reuters)

Several pieces of data show housing activity has slowed. (Reuters)

A study conducted by the Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) board found no wrong doing by its departing chief executive, who had favorable financial relationships with the company. (Reuters)

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) releases its new PlayStation 4 ahead of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) next console release. (Reuters)

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) will try to sell the Boston Globe and other New England properties. (Reuters)

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) will offer new repairs to problems with batteries on the Dreamliner. (WSJ)

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) presses its buyout of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR), in part because of its own need to prop up its core business. (WSJ)

Pinterest raises $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. (WSJ)

Some investors begin an aggressive campaign to split the roles of chairman and CEO at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). (WSJ)

Some economists believe that sharp budget cuts that could start next month will damage economic growth. (NYT)

The Obama administration begins to set plans to prevent cyber theft attempts against U.S. companies. (FT)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will release Chrome-based computers with touchscreens in a move to counter Microsoft Windows 8. (FT)

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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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