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Media Digest (3/13/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, Bloomberg

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Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) gets permission from the FAA to test fly its troubled 787. (Reuters)

Job openings rose in January, according to the Labor Department. (Reuters)

President Obama will meet with CEOs on the subject of cyber security. (Reuters)

IDC expects sales of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered tablets to pass the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad this year. (Reuters)

Dean Metropoulos and Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) will buy some of the Hostess brands. (Reuters)

The FTC wants standards for traditional ads to apply to those on Twitter and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) sites so that certain disclosures about the marketers are clear. (WSJ)

Samsung spent more than Apple to market smartphones in 2012. (WSJ)

Audi’s sales pace may allow it to challenge BMW and Mercedes for market share. (WSJ)

Regulators approve a deal for T-Mobile to combine with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS). (WSJ)

Sudan agrees to begin new shipments of crude oil, which had been suspended recently. (WSJ)

China steel output rose 9.8% last month, largely due to domestic construction. (WSJ)

Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) enters the mortgage business. (WSJ)

Google presses into the cloud computing market now dominated by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). (NYT)

West Texas Intermediate crude nears a two-week high as U.S. supplies drop. (Bloomberg)

The new Samsung Galaxy IV will target sales of Apple’s iPhone. (Bloomberg)

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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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