Media Digest (4/25/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) will make a $100 billion offer to Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) for the part of Verizon Wireless that it does not own. (Reuters)

Spanish financial firm Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) shares are battered after poor earnings. (Reuters)

Spain’s unemployment rate in the first quarter is 27.2%. (Reuters)

Competition in Asia hurts Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) earnings. (Reuters)

Low supplies of the Samsung Galaxy S4 may hurt sales. (Reuters)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will make its first bond offering. (WSJ)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will soon release a streaming video service. (WSJ)

Fiat may buy the part of Chrysler its does not own and them launch an IPO of the U.S. company. (WSJ)

Bad European Union sales hurt earnings of the region’s big car companies — Daimler, Volkswagen and Peugeot. (WSJ)

Profits on new locations may not match those that already exist as Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) expands. (WSJ)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will stream old episodes of Saturday Night Live in an effort to boost revenue from video ads. (NYT)

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) wins shareholder support for its new executive pay policy. (FT)

South Korea’s GDP expansion in the first quarter is 0.9%, a two-year high. (FT)

Central banks buy equities because of low bond yields. (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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