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Yahoo, the American internet giant, stands accused of helping Beijing to send a dissident journalist to prison for 10 years. The company is said to have supplied the authorities with computer records proving that Shi Tao had posted on the internet an internal government document banning the Chinese media from commenting on last year's 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is easy...

The American internet company Yahoo! defended itself today against criticism that it supplied information to the Chinese authorities that led to a 10-year jail term for a local journalist, saying it must comply with the law. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are...

Internet giant Yahoo has sidestepped claims that it aided China in the jailing of a journalist after he sent an email from a Yahoo account, saying it has to abide by rules laid down in the countries it operates. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," Yahoo...

The latest news that Yahoo turned over private emails to the Chinese government which led to the conviction and ten-year sentence of Shi Tao, an editorial department head at the Contemporary Business News in China's Hunan province turns my stomach. Yahoo claims, according to Dan Nystedt , at the IDG News Service, "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites...

All eyes in the media next week will be turning toward The Guardian - and you haven't always been able to say that in recent years. All the paper's rivals have been watching like hawks and sharpening their talons in case its imminent Berliner format enjoys the benefit of the new and starts to claw back sales from The Times and The Independent. Advertisers who are awake will want to be present in...

NEW DELHI, August 1: The Union minister for information and broadcasting, S Jaipal Reddy, will take a fresh look at the recently issued guidelines for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the print media. This would be done keeping in mind the prospects of India-centric advertising in facsimile editions so as to bring about a harmony in the advertising scenario. Reddy said this during the course of...

NEW DELHI, August 1: Magazines in India are just too cheap for comfort when it comes to comparing prices internationally. This is one of the malaises plaguing the magazine industry in India, according to Aroon Purie, chief executive officer (CEO) and editor-in-chief, India Today Group. The ridiculous pricing strategies of magazines was actually harming the industry, Purie held. It is high time...

NEW DELHI, August 1: It was a session that was going the archetypal corporate way. Attractive powerpoint presentations. An overabundance of graphs and charts. Natters about metrics and market segmentation, and what have you. Till, of course, the floor was thrown open. That was when two eminent journalists took centrestage and made the panelists react to something they were visibly uncomfortable...

NEW DELHI, August 1: With the single largest selling magazine in the country being in a "vernacular" language, the contention that regional language publications are a step-child does not cut ice anymore. But perils are there, and this threat is posed not by linguistic biases, but by the burgeoning newspaper industry. The point was raised during the session "The changing business model as seen by...

MUMBAI, India The Hindustan Times started publishing a Mumbai edition Thursday, breaching the citadel of the rival Times of India in search of a share of the $180 million in print advertising generated annually by the commercial capital of India. It is the first serious competition in Mumbai for the 167-year-old Times of India, the largest-selling English-language daily in the country. The Times...