IMC America, North American agent of Switzerland's vR Systems, announced that vR Systems (formerly Metso/vonRoll) was awarded the contract to supply New York's Daily News with an automated, integrated newsprint roll-handling system for the new KBA Commander CT presses to be installed at plant.[...]

Gannett Co. Inc. reported a chilly February, with same-property operating revenues down 7.2% compared to last year on advertising revenue that dropped 8.3 percent compared with a year ago.[...]

Russ Mitchell has a must-read interview with Eric Schmidt in the April issue of Portfolio. It gets off to a cracking start, with Schmidt saying that a combined Yahoo-Microsoft would have "certain applications--like instant messaging and email--that could be used essentially to break the internet". And there's lots of other [...]

The E.W. Scripps Co. will use Caspio's platform service to generate local community databases and applications for its online news sites, including Denver's Rocky Mountain News, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel and the Ventura County (Calif.) Star.[...]

In this week's edition of "FItz & Jen Give You the Business," Mark Fitzgerald, editor-at-large, and Jennifer Saba, associate editor, chat about the growing pressure for newspaper companies to unload assets. Plus: Aqualung??[...]

Last month, we wrote about a bill proposed in the Senate that would outlaw phishing even though phishing is already illegal. If it merely restated that phishing was illegal, that would be one thing (a basic waste), but it also added some other points that were problematic, including taking away [...]