Media Digest (3/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad may give off much more heat that its predecessors. (Reuters)

JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will buy 19.9% of Chinese company Bridge Trust. (Reuters)

Strong sales of software helps Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings as hardware sales drop. (Reuters)

The Supreme Court says patents on medical tests will have to reach a higher bar than in the past. (WSJ)

The Obama administration puts tariffs on solar panels from China. (WSJ)

Senators want to give regulators more time to draft specifics for the Volcker rule, which may help banks make adaptations. (WSJ)

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) to merge its printer and PC operations. (WSJ)

A Council on Foreign Relations report says that poor results from students at American schools eventually could hurt U.S. security. (WSJ)

iPad users find that watching video for a few hours takes them above their data plan caps. (WSJ)

Boeing (NYSE: BA) says it can increase deliveries of its 787 now that a version with General Electric (NYSE: GE) engines has been approved. (WSJ)

A senior labor official in Europe warns General Motors (NYSE: GM) about the shuttering of regional plants. (WSJ)

Money from the European Central Bank will not help solve the problem of the difference between the German economy and those of southern Europe. (WSJ)

Oil prices fall after the Saudis say they will increase supplies. (WSJ)

Portugal must explain how it will handle a $12.84 billion bond that matures next year. (WSJ)

China makes it easier for foreign investors to put money into its stock markets. (NYT)

The oil minister of Saudi Arabia says oil prices are too high and that his country could increase production by 25%. (FT)

A new Republican plan calls for tax cuts and only two tax brackets. (FT)

Bernanke says Europe must aid its banks. (Bloomberg)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) offers fulfillment services to other companies to add to its profits. (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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