Media Digest (3/19/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) will take over TNT Express for $6.85 billion. (Reuters)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to announce plans for its $100 billion in cash. (Reuters)

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says it can challenge Apple’s tablet market share. (Reuters)

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) launches its first Evolution Fresh juice bar. (Reuters)

The Treasury will report it made $25 billion on mortgage bonds it bought during the credit crisis. (WSJ)

Wall St. firms to buy foreclosed homes from Fannie Mae. (WSJ)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Peugeot will jointly produce two cars. (WSJ)

The economy so far is hurt little by rising oil prices. (WSJ)

Largarde of the International Monetary Fund will not endorse China’s policy for the yuan. (WSJ)

An Indian tax on auto manufacturing will raise car prices and smother sales. (WSJ)

Wireless carriers have to come up with creative solutions as their infrastructures become burdened with customer demand. (WSJ)

Some Chevron (NYSE: CVX) officials in Brazil are detained due to an oil leak. (WSJ)

More analysts believe oil could reach its record high of nearly $150 set in 2008. (WSJ)

Pew Research Center shows that revenue for the news business is shrinking. (NYT)

More game companies give away games and charge for extra features. (NYT)

Bond yields move higher as the economy recovers. (NYT)

Home prices in China begin to fall. (NYT)

The prime minister of Greece expects the economy to start growing in two years. (FT)

S&P 500 earnings are expected to drop in Q1. (FT)

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says China has imported fewer arms as it makes more of its own. (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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