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Advertising on School Tests

It may be a sign of the problems in the school system. There simply is not the necessary funding. One teacher is addressing the problem by selling advertising:
“…Squeezed by classroom budget cuts, the Rancho Bernardo High School teacher is selling ads on his exams to cover the costs of printing them.
“It raises money [...]

Rumours of Job Cuts at Google

Google may not be immune. There are rumour floating that there are proposed job cuts at Google. And some of those jobs may be gone already:
“Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up [...]

Associated Press Looks to Trim Staff

The loss of advertising is placing enormous stress on newspapers. It is impacting on one of the world’s premier news gathering agencies, Associated Press (AP):
” The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it copes with tough financial times [...]

MGM Films on YouTube

YouTube was an expensive purchase for Google. A price tag of $1.65 billion dollars is expensive, even if the company is Google. In a step to make YouTube into a consistent and growing profit center, there will full length films available on the video site:
“YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television [...]

Google Leaves Partnership with Yahoo

The partnership with Google was a means of generating much needed revenue for Yahoo and buffering any further acquisition attempts by Microsoft. The project seems to have been ended prematurely with Google removing itself:
“Google has decided to abandon its advertising partnership with Yahoo to avoid having a “protracted legal battle” with regulators.
The deal [...]

Google and Yahoo Try Again for a Partnership

Regulatory hurdles are preventing Google and Yahoo from moving forward with their advertising partnership. For Yahoo especially, this collaboration has become a necessity. An alternative plan is being presented:
“Google and Yahoo! have made last-minute proposals to scale down their Internet advertising partnership in a bid to appease anti-trust regulators.
The companies offered concessions [...]

Financial Woes at the Washington Post

It is a dramatic decline. The Washington Post Company is yet another newspaper organization that is struggling:
“The Washington Post Co. today reported an 86 percent decline in third-quarter earnings compared with the same period last year, as a significant loss at the flagship newspaper offset gains at the company’s education and cable divisions.”
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Google Settles Copyright Lawsuit

Google can move forward with the digitalizing of millions of books. It is a costly settlement of a lawsuit for Google:
“Google is to pay $125m (€98m) to settle lawsuits filed in 2005 by authors and publishers that charged the web search group with “massive infringement”, challenging its book scanning project that digitised and offered [...]

The Christian Science Monitor Stops Its Print Edition

The Christian Science Monitor has had a longstanding reputation of excellence. It has garnered numerous Pulitzer Prizes. Now, the Christian Science Monitor will be available only on the internet:
“After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The [...]

More Details on Windows 7

The initial problems of Microsoft’s Vista have been well documented. Millions of dollars in advertising are being spent in promoting Vista. However, a competing element against Vista is coming from within Microsoft itself. More details of the new Windows 7 operating system are being revealed:
“… Microsoft is focused on improving the [...]

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