Media Digest (6/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

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Members of the Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) board are close to picking a new chairman. (Reuters)

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) lack of success blocking rivals in court and the slow introduction of the iPhone 5 could hurt sales. (Reuters)

Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) CNBC and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) to form a partnership in financial news. (Reuters)

A new poll by TrustLaw shows that, of G20 nations, Canada offers the best opportunities for women and India the worst. (Reuters)

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) says the demand for high-end chips is up. (Reuters)

LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) says it will provide new security functions to protect users. (Reuters)

U.S. officials probe whether cable companies have put restrictions on online premium video channels. (WSJ)

Jamie Dimon will tell Congress that JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) had poor risk management systems. (WSJ)

Congress is investigating whether Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. have relationships with the Chinese government that could pass U.S. telecom infrastructure information to the People’s Republic. (WSJ)

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will release details of a plan that allows people to use its network for as many as 10 devices. (WSJ)

The solar market could double in the United States this year, according to information from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research. (WSJ)

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will pay a dividend. (WSJ)

A deal between TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) and eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) Paypal will allow TV viewers to immediately buy products they see. (WSJ)

CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) ABC will get higher ad rates this season. (WSJ)

The borrowing costs of Spain and Italy surge as worry about sovereign contagion grows. (WSJ)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that health care costs will rise quickly in coming years. (WSJ)

Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) review of its bribery problems has spread to investigations of its China and Brazil operations. (WSJ)

General Motors’ (NYSE: GM) CEO says that talks with unions in Europe will yield better financial results. (WSJ)

Some members of OPEC push Saudi Arabia to cut production. (FT)

Outflows from Greek banks increase. (Bloomberg)

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is about to sell its Vertu luxury-phone unit. (Bloomberg)

Angela Merkel’s aggressive stance on austerity is supported by most of her nation’s voters. (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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