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Blazing fast news from Google’s Fast Flip

by JG Mason on Sep 15, 2009 at 08:07 AM

Find web news too slow?  Google is looking to change that with its new lab service Fast Flip, a lighting fast view of a news page.  Google believes that what is holding online news back is the time to load.  Are they right? Users who are surrounded by newsprint and… Continue Reading »

Wall Street Journal to launch micropayment model

by Sue Walsh on May 11, 2009 at 04:05 PM

The Wall Street Journal, in a bid to survive the growing shift of newspaper readership from print to online, has announced it will implement a new micropayment subscription model on its website. Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, told The Financial Times that “a… Continue Reading »

Amazon’s got a giant Kindle secret?  It’s free (rumor)

by JG Mason on May 4, 2009 at 08:05 AM

Today, Amazon delivered invites to an event being held at the New York Times former headquarters in the City.  Amazon doesn’t hold a lot of these, so speculation is something new is coming.  This new thing is purported to be the savior of the flailing newspaper world.  Even better, it… Continue Reading »

With print market shrinking rapidly, newspapers’ web revenues slow to a crawl

by Michael Goonan on Oct 16, 2008 at 08:26 AM

Since the advent of television news, newspapers have been struggling.  Sales have been slowing, circulation and staffs shrinking, with more and more small town papers dying out.  Some would call print news a dying business. The Internet boom since the 1990’s threatened to be the death sentence for newspapers, but… Continue Reading »

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