Media Digest (7/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) pays $60 million to settle a trademark dispute in China. (Reuters)

Factory orders in both Japan and China fall in June. (Reuters)

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) Chairman Marcus Agius quits after the bank settles Libor trading charges. Bob Diamond, the CEO, remains under siege. (Reuters)

Italy may sue Apple, if the company does not offer two-year warranties on products. (Reuters)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will enter the enterprise cloud computing industry in Brazil. (Reuters)

The price of raw materials collapses worldwide as demand slackens. (WSJ)

The global market for IPOs continues to fall. (WSJ)

A drop in consumer sentiment and spending damages most hopes for a U.S. recovery. (WSJ)

New rules in several states could make it more difficult for banks to foreclose on homes. (WSJ)

Earnings forecasts are undermined by the slowdown in Europe. (WSJ)

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) may close a deal to buy Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) this week. (WSJ)

A McKinsey report shows it is harder for women to get top corporate job in Asia than in the United States. (WSJ)

AMC Networks and AT&T (NYSE: T) reach a deal for the network’s shows to run on the telecom’s TV channels. (WSJ)

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) decides to continue to list on Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (WSJ)

The EU ban on Iranian oil begins. (WSJ)

Coffee prices continue to fall because of Brazilian exports. (WSJ)

Car sales in France fall in June, but Volkswagen gains ground. (NYT)

Markets still worry that a new EU bank regulatory authority will have little influence on the region’s financial problems. (NYT)

EADS will spend $600 million to set assembly facilities in the U.S. for Airbus planes. (NYT)

Spanish and Portuguese banks buy back their own mortgage-backed debt. (Bloomberg)

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) sets several deals to increase its supply of touchscreen components, which it expects will face shortages. (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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