Media Digest (4/10/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The FBI begins review of the relationship between a KPMG partner and Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF). (Reuters)

Problems with lithium ion batteries hurt the growth of companies that make them. (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) press EU regulators over the role of Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android in phone business. (Reuters)

Big Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) shareholder Southeastern Asset Management says the board’s evaluation of the Michael Dell buyout bid was biased. (Reuters)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) have conversations about greater partnerships involving their services. (WSJ)

Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) tries to line up more partners for its Dell bid. (WSJ)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) increases its use of data to target ads. (WSJ)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) tests Facebook’s advertising services again. (WSJ)

Fitch downgrades its rating of local currency-based long-term debt, citing worries about the effects of rapid growth. (WSJ)

Blackstone and Carlyle may make an $11 billion offer for Life Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: LIFE). (WSJ)

Several investors approach Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET) about buying Frontier Airlines. (WSJ)

The Potential Gas Committee increases its estimates of natural gas supplies, which raises the issue of whether the U.S. should export the energy source. (WSJ)

The boards of OfficeMax Inc. (NYSE: OMX) and Office Depot Inc. (NYSE: ODP) set a plan to look for a CEO. (WSJ)

Treasury chief Jacob J. Lew wants EU nations to move from austerity to stimulus and is turned down by his counterparts in the region. (NYT)

Analysts question whether China’s trade data are accurate after a close analysis. (FT)

The number of women on boards at U.K. companies continues to be well short of targets. (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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