Media Digest (3/15/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times

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Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) says its 787 could be back in commercial service within a few weeks. (Reuters)

Samsung introduces its Galaxy S4 to compete with the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. According to Reuters:

The S4 can stop and start videos depending on whether someone is looking at the screen, flip between songs and photos at the wave of a hand, and record sound to run alongside snapped still pictures.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is accused of having executives who shielded senior management about the London Whale trades, which caused $6 billion in losses. (Reuters)

The Federal Reserve sharply criticizes the capital planning of J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), each of which wants to return more money to shareholders. (WSJ)

Oil production in North America is good enough that crude delivered by the Keystone XL pipeline might be exported, another factor that might help opponents of the project. (WSJ)

Volkswagen will increase its output in China as much as 70% by 2018. (WSJ)

An Urban Institute study shows that the “wealth building” of young people does not match that of their parents. (NYT)

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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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