Media Digest (3/19/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) will lay off 300 people. (Reuters)

Electronics Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) chief executive departs as the firm missed earnings. (Reuters)

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) ramps up hiring for its new TV entertainment unit. (Reuters)

Airbus gets an order from Indonesian airline Lion Air worth $24 billion. (Reuters)

The Employee Benefit Research Institute reports that 57% of Americans have less than $25,000 in savings when the value of their homes are backed out. (WSJ)

Corelogic reports that “underwater” homes dropped by 1.7 million in the fourth quarter, compared to the same quarter a year ago. (WSJ)

Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) takes some pants out of stores because they are too sheer. (WSJ)

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) pays $730 million to settle claims over paper its sold that mislead investors over a two-year period. (WSJ)

Liberty Media Corp. (NASDAQ: LMCA) may by 25% of Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR). (WSJ)

HTC delays release of one of its major new phone products. (WSJ)

IDC says global PC shipments will slow again this year. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) blocks developers who do not make software that enhances the social network’s goals. (WSJ)

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) sells debt to buy paper with higher coupons. (WSJ)

The Washington Post division of Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) will charge for online content. (WSJ)

Investment firms and farmers begin to compete for land as crop prices rise. (NYT)

ABC may launch an app for people to watch TV on portable devices. (NYT)

The size of cash hoards held by U.S. companies reach record levels, according to Moody’s Investor Service. (FT)

Samsung says it will release its own smart watch to compete with Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL). (Bloomberg)

European February car sales fall 10%, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. (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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