Media - Internet

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Friday it will offer free access to its Times Select online opinion section through a sponsorship deal with Royal Philips Electronics (PHG.AS: Quote, Profile , Research) as it aims to get more people to subscribe to the $49.95-per-year service. Philips will sponsor the free access starting on Monday, Nov...

NEW YORK — Who says the mainstream media don't respect the blogosphere? CNN is trying to incorporate bloggers directly into its coverage of next week's midterm elections by inviting them to an "E-lection Nite Blog Party," an event aimed at corralling some of the top online opinion makers in one place to provide instant reaction as the results come in. The cable news network plans to host more than...

NEW YORK -- At Google Inc.'s new office near the Hudson River, Volvo's top U.S. advertising manager has just flown in from California to talk about next year's launch of a new car, aimed at the hip, 20-something crowd. Linda Gangeri, a Volvo executive, wants to hear Google's ideas about online video. She high-fives the company for its recent decision to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube Inc...

NEW ORLEANS - Online journalists warned a meeting of newspaper editors Thursday that their industry's survival depends on how well they can engage and excite the masses of readers on the Web. While delving into the digital age may seem daunting, "it's not nearly as frightening as what will happen to journalism if we don't embrace it," Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, said during...

NEW YORK: It could take as long as 30 years for online revenue to represent at least 50% of a newspaper’s top line, according to a new report issued by Merrill Lynch on Tuesday. “Even if the rapid [online] growth continues for the next few years, we don’t see online representing over 50% of newspaper ad revenues for at least a couple of decades, suggesting that industry profit could stay flat for...

NEW YORK: The tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and in particular its leader, Kim Jong Il, are well known. There's Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and cotton-candy hairdo, for instance. A newer, more dangerous sort of North Korean eccentricity registered around 4.0 on the Richter scale earlier this month - a nuclear weapon test broadcast on...

Comparisons of Google to a freight train that defies the laws of physics are looking apt right about now. By all rights, such forces as a slowing economy and increased competition from new search engines and social networks should be dragging on the company's growth. That's what they're doing to rival Yahoo! (YHOO). But time and time again Google (GOOG) proves that it is far from running out of...

Microsoft is being targeted by the organisation that won a court battle with Google over the reproduction of newspaper content. The software giant is in talks with Copiepresse, the organisation that manages the copyright for the French and German-speaking press in Belgium, after receiving a "cease and desist" letter stating it should remove its newspaper content from the MSN website. Copiepresse -...

For the editor-in-chief of the world’s biggest business magazine, one goal is paramount: keeping his title on the “must read” list. “You don’t want to be a discretionary read, that is too dangerous,” says Stephen Adler, the 51-year-old who last year stepped into the potential danger zone, taking over responsibility for all of the content in BusinessWeek, its website and its seven foreign language...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, a study suggested. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, said their telephone survey indicated more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of "problematic Internet use." The findings backed those of previous, less rigorous studies...