Media Digest (3/5/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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AIG (NYSE: AIG) to sell more than $6 billion in shares in its AIA unit to pay back government loans. (Reuters)

Jaguar Land Rover and Chery plan a joint venture in China worth more than $2 billion. (Reuters)

China cuts its growth target to only 7.5% for 2012 as it tries to get internal consumption to offset export problems. (Reuters)

BP’s (NYSE: BP) financial prospects were improved by its agreement to a settlement of its Gulf liabilities. (Reuters)

Senator Schumer asks for an investigation of how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) products take people’s private photos and put them online. (Reuters)

Big Banks and the Fed are locked in disagreement about how much stress-test data should be given to the public. (WSJ)

Chrysler and General Motors (NYSE: GM) each plan to offer natural gas powered trucks. (WSJ)

Tesco (NASDAQ: TESO) to add 20,000 jobs in the UK over the next two years. (WSJ)

China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign wealth operation, will get $30 billion in new capital. (WSJ)

China to increase military spending by 11.2% this year. (WSJ)

More and more newspapers set paywalls to gain sales (WSJ)

Some EU banks take European Central Bank loans to help their balance sheets in case of a regional recession. (WSJ)

People who watch TV shows days after they air become important to ratings. (NYT)

The Project for Excellence in Journalism posts research that shows newspapers’ online ads do not offset a loss in print ones. (NYT)

Many holders of Greek debt may not take part in an important bond swap. (FT)

Apple’s App Store hits 25 billion downloads. (FT)

Jobs in mobile software and apps help the U.S. unemployment rate. (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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