Who's going to bring you your local news?  Rupert and/or Arthur:

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are pursuing readers from regional U.S. newspapers in their fight to survive the worst advertising declines in the industry’s history.

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Google unveiled new technology to automatically add text captions to YouTube videos, The New York Times reported. The technology can only add English-language captions thus far, but Google told the Times its automatic translation system will enable users to read the captions in 51 languages. The captioning technology will roll...

The major indexes ended Wednesday’s trading session in negative territory. The Dow closed down 0.1%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.5%.

The major indexes ended Wednesday’s trading session in negative territory. The Dow closed down 0.1%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.5%.

G10 Advancers and Decliners vs USD JPY 0.05 EUR -0.44 CHF -0.53 GBP -0.86

There have been very few newsworthy events in today’s session, and even the handful of scheduled speakers lined up had very little effect on FX markets. The only driver therefore has been the performance of global equity markets; and with both European and US indices in negative territory, the USD has been able to make gains across the board. The hardest hit has been GBP which has tumbled over…

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BloggingStocks: We've put three quarters behind us in 2009, and the most recent one was merely another miserable step downward for the beleaguered newspaper industry. Total ad revenue plummeted in the third quarter to $6.4 billion for the print jockeys, a decline of ... Read more

BloggingStocks: Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital disclosed in an SEC filing yesterday that it has sold 2.5 million shares of The New York Times Co. (NYT), reducing the company's largest outside shareholder's stake from to 14.6%. It also sold shares in ... Read more

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New York Times Company recently moved into its new headquarters skyscraper located a block off of Times Square in downtown Manhattan. The building was designed by architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Genova, Italy). As featured on Electric TV, the 52-story, 1.6 million square foot building features an energy saving Total Light Management System, in which the NECA-IBEW team played a large role in the installation.

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