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Financial information provider Thomson Reuters said Thursday that profits climbed in the first quarter of the year despite challenging market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news160924752.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:19:36 EST news160924752 Media giant News Corp. reported a flat quarterly net profit of 2.7 billion dollars on Wednesday as one-time items helped compensate for a slide in advertising revenue. http://www.physorg.com/news160924676.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:34 EST news160924676 As US newspapers drown in a sea of red ink, publishers are desperately searching for ways to survive in a digital future. http://www.physorg.com/news160723411.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 06:24:01 EST news160723411 (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. is taking a stake in Hulu.com. This means titles from The Walt Disney Studios library of films and full-length episodes of ABC television shows will join the online video site. http://www.physorg.com/news160312045.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:08:01 EST news160312045 Google News, the news aggregation site run by the Internet search giant announced the launch of the @googlenews Twitter feed in a post on the Google News blog on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news160141054.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:37:55 EST news160141054 (AP) -- News Corp. has hired two new executives at MySpace, expanding the online hangout's management team after having just replaced its CEO on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news160068500.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:28:48 EST news160068500 The latest daily circulation figures for US newspapers provided more bad news on Monday for the embattled industry. http://www.physorg.com/news160057106.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:18:59 EST news160057106 (AP) -- MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe will step down soon as the social networking site's chief executive, amid the site's stalled user growth and the rapid rise of rival Facebook. http://www.physorg.com/news159648793.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:53:33 EST news159648793 The recent drinking and driving (DUI) arrests of celebrities -Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan -yielded widespread news coverage, however, very little of it offered any public health context, according to a new report by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. http://www.physorg.com/news159634852.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:01:31 EST news159634852 Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news. http://www.physorg.com/news159520657.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:19:40 EST news159520657 MySpace on Monday invited its members to become volunteer "uReporters" by supplying news pictures or videos for use at the social networking website and Fox News network. http://www.physorg.com/news159469114.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:58:58 EST news159469114 The New York Times unveiled plans on Thursday to eliminate several weekly sections of the newspaper in the latest cost-cutting move at the prestigious but financially troubled daily. http://www.physorg.com/news159121671.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:28:20 EST news159121671 Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to an online duel. http://www.physorg.com/news159113962.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:19:58 EST news159113962 An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move. http://www.physorg.com/news158592876.html Technology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:34:58 EST news158592876 COLUMBIA, Mo. -Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Journalism recently completed a comprehensive comparison of citizen journalism sites (news sites and blogs) and traditional media Web sites. They found that despite ongoing reports of financial troubles and cutbacks, legacy media are more comprehensive and more technologically advanced than citizen media and bloggers. http://www.physorg.com/news158417608.html Other Sciences Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:54:05 EST news158417608 US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad. http://www.physorg.com/news158396207.html Technology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:57:09 EST news158396207 The US news agency the Associated Press announced plans on Monday to take legal action against websites that publish stories from the AP or its member newspapers without permission. http://www.physorg.com/news158261455.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:31:21 EST news158261455 Jonathan Miller, a former head of Time Warner online unit AOL, was named by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday to oversee MySpace and other digital businesses at the media giant. http://www.physorg.com/news157814825.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:27:37 EST news157814825 (AP) -- The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after 174 years and will be replaced by a Web-focused community news operation built from the ground up. http://www.physorg.com/news157032209.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:04:17 EST news157032209 (AP) -- Time Inc. is experimenting with a customized magazine that combines reader-selected sections from eight publications as it tries to mimic in printed form the personalized news feeds that have become popular on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news156595183.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:40:49 EST news156595183 (AP) -- Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23. http://www.physorg.com/news156442110.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:08:56 EST news156442110 If the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stops publishing in print but stays alive in some form online - as now seems likely - it won't be the first daily newspaper to make the move. http://www.physorg.com/news156019574.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:46:55 EST news156019574 Top online social-networking service Facebook on Wednesday began rolling out a revamped home page that emphasizes fresh news. http://www.physorg.com/news156018506.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:28:57 EST news156018506 The New York Times has launched an experimental network of websites providing local community news and information for residents of neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey. http://www.physorg.com/news155288898.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:48:54 EST news155288898 Google has introduced ads to the results of search queries on Google News in a move aimed at turning the news aggregation site into a money-making venture that may raise the hackles of newspapers and other media outlets. http://www.physorg.com/news154892425.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:40:54 EST news154892425 Assistant Professor Ron Yaros paid his dues as a journalist - working in the midwest from Michigan to Wisconsin and Missouri. He covered science, technology and health. But he wanted more. "I realized that there might be additional opportunities to learn better ways to communicate this complex information to the public," he says. http://www.physorg.com/news153414532.html Other Sciences Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:09:11 EST news153414532 Educational rankings such as those produced by U.S. News & World Report have an inescapable impact on law schools, according to research published in the February issue of the American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association. http://www.physorg.com/news152790922.html Other Sciences Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:55:46 EST news152790922 A new brain imaging study illustrates what happens to memories as time goes by. The study, in the January 28 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that distinct brain structures are involved in recalling recent and older events. http://www.physorg.com/news152298955.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:16:32 EST news152298955 About nine in 10 Americans heard the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim, making it possibly the most prevalent rumor of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a nationwide survey. However, only 22 percent of those surveyed said they actually believed that Obama is a Muslim. http://www.physorg.com/news151851768.html Other Sciences Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:03:21 EST news151851768 Celebrities do have the ability to focus awareness on charitable and political causes but their power to move the news machine to shape policy agendas has been oversold, according to recent research published by SAGE in the October issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP). http://www.physorg.com/news143200667.html Other Sciences Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:57:47 EST news143200667