Media Digest (6/19/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) launches its Surface tablet. (Reuters)

European leaders say they will create a more integrated banking system. (Reuters)

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority may determine whether Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) was at fault in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO. (Reuters)

Facebook buys facial recognition company Face.com for $60 million. (Reuters)

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) raises bills for its FiOS fiber product and increases connection speeds. (Reuters)

United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) may sell part of its Pratt engine business. (Reuters)

Spain is the new financial flash point of Europe. (WSJ)

Germany may disagree on the terms of Greek austerity and bailout provisions. (WSJ)

JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) pushes out its president, Michael R. Francis, who has been at the company for eight months. (WSJ)

Results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index show that airlines continue to have low scores compared to other industries. (WSJ)

Access to consumer credit continues to hurt the U.S. recovery. (WSJ)

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) posts extremely strong quarterly numbers, which its released earlier than expected. (WSJ)

Vincent Intrieri will join the Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) board as a representative of big holder Carl Icahn. (WSJ)

Carrefour’s new CEO says he will cut debt and overhead at the troubled retailer. (WSJ)

Gartner reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have increased their share of the smartphone market. (WSJ)

FedEx (NYSE: FDX) earnings may include a warning for next year. (WSJ)

Arabica coffee futures reach a two-year low. (WSJ)

Fed officials will meet to decide if the U.S. economy needs more aid. (NYT)

Sales of consumer electronics at stores have fallen 2.6% in the past five years while online sales have risen 14.7%. (NYT)

The 12th edition of “The State of Working America,” a book from the Economic Policy Institute, reports that more Americans are taking jobs they are overqualified for and being hurt by income difficulties. (NYT)

G20 members say they will support the value of the euro. (FT)

Russia will set aside $40 billion to stimulate its economy. (FT)

China expects government efforts to help its June growth rate. (Bloomberg)

LG Electronics to abandon its tablet efforts. (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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