Media Digest (3/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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Anheuser-Busch InBev NV may buy China’s Kingway Brewery Holdings’ assets. (Reuters)

The Department of Justice is expected to widen its probe of mortgage-backed securities. (Reuters)

AT&T (NYSE: T) sets new standards that will impose penalties on those who download large amounts of data to wireless devices. (Reuters)

Western sanctions begin to hurt Iran’s oil export business. (Reuters)

Two companies will use Twitter data to sell marketers’ ads on the service. (Reuters)

Facebook to expand its credit line by $2.5 billion to cover taxes of some employees due to its IPO. (Reuters)

Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT) and other large retailers will establish a service to take advantage of mobile payment devices. (WSJ)

Eurozone ministers will wait to release bailout funds until they see implementation of Greek austerity measures. (WSJ)

Germany’s retail sales fall in January. (WSJ)

Yelp’s price is above its IPO range. (WSJ)

Sumner Redstone, Viacom’s (NASDAQ: VIAB) chairman, may miss its annual meeting. (WSJ)

Toyota’s (NYSE: TM) sales in China rise sharply in February. (WSJ)

Some members of Congress resist postal offices closures as the USPS tries to cut costs. (WSJ)

The eurozone’s unemployment rate reaches a 15-year high. (WSJ)

GM (NYSE: GM), Ford (NYSE: F) and Chrysler all post February sales gains. (WSJ)

A decision to approve an anticlotting drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is delayed until later in the year as experts review its effects. (WSJ)

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) will try to drill in the area north of Russia, if it can get government approval. (WSJ)

Rumors of a Saudi oil pipe break drive oil above $110. (WSJ)

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will buy Ariel Reinsurance as it attempts to diversify. (WSJ)

Despite the ruling of a key body, Greek credit default swaps could still be triggered by a default. (WSJ)

Crude hits its highest level since records set in 2008. (FT)

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) new privacy policy upsets European Comission regulators. (FT)

EU leaders will speed money to a permanent bailout fund meant to calm international capital markets. (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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