Media Digest (3/26/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Investing

Published: March 26, 2013 6:25 am

Carl Icahn may join Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) in a joint effort to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). (Reuters)

The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 begins test flights after battery problems grounded the planes. (Reuters)

The board of Hulu, the video site owned in part by News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) and Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), puts it up for sale. (Reuters)

College-educated workers may be trapped in low-paying jobs as the economy recovers because they lack critical skills. (WSJ)

The European Union and Japan will start free trade negotiations. (WSJ)

BlackBerry’s (NASDAQ: BBRY) BlackBerry Z10 receives poor support from AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), which could ruin the handset’s prospects. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) uses outside data to discover more about its users. (NYT)

Cyprus will continue to keep its banks closed as it recovers from negotiations for aid that will tax some depositors. (FT)

South Korea’s gross domestic product rose only 1.5% in the fourth quarter. (Bloomberg)

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