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Gartner reports that smartphone sales grew in the first quarter and Samsung continued to gain share. (MarketWatch)

The AP says the U.S. Department of Justice took some of the data held by its reporters during seizures that occurred last year. (Reuters)

Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) gets a shareholder suit over LIBOR manipulation dismissed in the United States. (Reuters)

Carl Icahn and Southeastern name their director nominees for Dell Inc.’s (NASDAQ: DELL) board. (Reuters)

Sharp posts a record annual loss, again. (WSJ)

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Twitter add to their marketing relationship. (WSJ)

Top financial officials of the European Union differ on whether they can create a regionwide banking alliance. (WSJ)

New Web browsers allow consumers to link access across many devices. (WSJ)

Activist investor Daniel S. Loeb wants Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) to spin off its entertainment division. (NYT)

More Bloomberg clients ask about reporter access to their trading data. (NYT)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigates some energy and metal swaps. (FT)

An $11 billion bond offering by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR) sets a record for such transactions. (FT)

China and Japan move to take roles in the Arctic now that the polar ice cap has melted. (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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