Media Digest (2/29/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch a new iPad next week. (Reuters)

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) says CEO Stephen Schwarzman made $213 million last year. (Reuters)

The Justice Department is looking at whether banks manipulated the Libor rate. (Reuters)

Ireland will have a referendum on the terms of its EU aid. (Reuters)

Crude oil may rise as the European Central Bank lends the European Union’s large banks more cheap money. (Reuters)

A probe is examining whether a Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) manager gave inside information to hedge fund clients. (WSJ)

The U.S. may charge Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) because of poor disclosures over the risks of mortgage-backed securities. (WSJ)

Stockton, Calif., is closer to a Chapter 9 bankruptcy. (WSJ)

India’s GDP growth slows to 6.1%. (WSJ)

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) to fire workers at its WebOS group. (WSJ)

The FDA warns that cholesterol-fighting statins may cause a rise in blood sugar. (WSJ)

The ECB says it will no longer take Greek bonds as collateral. (WSJ)

The EU’s oil embargo on Iran begins to affect shipments to Asia. (WSJ)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) to buy 7% of PSA Peugeot Citroën. (WSJ)

Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) will try to expand rapidly overseas. (WSJ)

The buyout of TXU for $45 billion is hurt by a drop in natural gas prices, (NYT)

The constitutional court in Germany issues a ruling that could slow its parliament’s final approval of bailout funds. (NYT)

The ECB expects huge demand for its inexpensive three-year loans. (FT)

Peugeot to cut jobs after its equity deal with GM. (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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