Media Digest (2/24/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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Steve Wynn pushes major shareholder Kazuo Okada off the board of Wynn Macau. (Reuters)

AIG (NYSE: AIG) makes a large profit on portfolio gains. (Reuters)

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) legal fight with Proview International moves to the U.S. courts. (Reuters)

The U.S. Postal Service plans to cut 35,000 jobs. (Reuters)

Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) will sell assets to improve its balance sheet, but worries about its core retail business have not changed. (Reuters)

Federal prosecutors are prepared to file charges against BP (NYSE: BP) for many errors that caused the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. (WSJ)

Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) is close to a deal to buy El Paso’s (NYSE: EP) oil and exploration business for $7 billion. (WSJ)

Dish Network (NYSE: DISH) will enter the mobile communications business. (WSJ)

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says most Republican presidential candidates have suggested programs that would add to the federal debt. (WSJ)

China objects to a European investigation of its steel trade practice, which raises concerns that financial aid to the region may involve concessions on China exports to the region. (WSJ)

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) to cut more than 4,000 jobs. (WSJ)

T-Mobile to spend $4 billion to upgrade its network to faster wireless service. (WSJ)

Quarterly results from EU-based banks show how badly the debt crisis has hurt them financially. (WSJ)

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will stop selling loans to Fannie Mae based on a disagreement about how delinquent mortgages should be handled. (WSJ)

European creditor nations set a large number of tax and spending conditions for Greece to receive aid. (FT)

The World Bank and Chinese economists say the nation must change currency policies and open its markets or risk a sharp slowdown. (FT)

Spain asks the EU to ease its deficit targets. (FT)

The U.S. will plant more crops this year, which should ease global price increases. (FT)

Oil prices are set to have their longest string of increases since 2008. (Bloomberg)

European officials to ask other large nations to put more money into the International Monetary Fund. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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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