Media Digest (6/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The pro-austerity party wins the election in Greece and will try to build a coalition. (Reuters)

India surprises analysts by keeping its rates as is, despite a slow economy. (Reuters)

The FCC will further explore radiation from cellphones. (Reuters)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) had considerable control over the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO. (WSJ)

An IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer sets a new speed record for calculations. (WSJ)

G. “Mike” Mikan, the interim CEO of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), lobbies for the job to be permanent. (WSJ)

Samsung’s CEO says the company needs to make more advancements in its software business. (WSJ)

G20 leaders will push hard for global growth initiatives. (WSJ)

Europe’s big banks do not want a more unified region because it could put weak financial firms more on par with stronger ones. (NYT)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) turns up its map competition with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). (NYT)

Royalties from digital radio start to rise. (NYT)

More analysts expect Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to launch its own tablet. (FT)

The solar market in Japan moves as high as $10 billion. (Bloomberg)

Nissan believes it can double sales of its Leaf electric car in the United States. (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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