Media Digest (3/7/2013) Reuters, WSJ, Bloomberg

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Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) will spin off its Time Inc. publishing unit. (Reuters)

The National Transportation Safety Board will release a report on Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner battery problems. (Reuters)

Carl Icahn buys shares in Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), which is in the midst of a buyout battle. (Reuters)

A committee of Dell’s board says a leveraged buyout is the best way to give shareholders value. (Reuters)

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood indicates that his department needs more data to clear the 787 Dreamliner for flight. (WSJ)

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has considered an offer for Dell. (WSJ)

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher says Washington politics caused the slow economic growth. (WSJ)

China begins to work more on expanding its 4G networks. (WSJ)

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) shareholders reject a plan to separate the chairman job from that of the chief executive officer. (WSJ)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will sharply increase mileage of its cars in the next three years by cutting weight. (WSJ)

More large companies raise cash, in many cases to grow through M&A. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will release a redesign to keep users on the site and help improve ad revenue. (WSJ)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) encourages European Union regulators to fine Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for not complying with agreements over its Internet Explorer browser. (WSJ)

S&P raises its outlook on Portugal to Stable on news of the country’s budget plans. (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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