It says a lot about how tough the last year has been when a revenue decline of 11.5 percent is an improvement after a Q3 that was down nearly 17 percent. The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) turned in better than expected revenue, ad numbers and profit for Q4—and…

NYTimes.com is being blocked in China, even as some news sites have had recent restrictions lifted, IHT reported. A number of news sites belonging to the BBC, Voice of America and Asiaweek had restrictions lifted by Friday after being blocked a few days earlier. Asked why NYTimes.com is being blocked,—though…

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has appointed Denise Warren, SVP and chief advertising officer of the company, as the GM of NYTimes.com, adding to her current duties. She fills the position left vacant by Vivian Schiller, who joined NPR on Dec 1 as the new CEO. Warren will…

Earlier in June, we wrote about NYTimes.com’s effort at stories recommendation and sharing of those in the form of a basic news sharing social net. The service, called TimesPeople, was a Firefox plug-in to begin with. Now tonight, it has started showing up for all users, including mine. The service,…

NYTimes.com has been quietly rolling out a series of sub-sections this month, in hopes of attracting more B-to-B advertisers. By mid-September, new sub-sections will be added to the toolbars of both the Business and Technology channels, including Green Business and Enterprise Technology, respectively. Others will be added throughout the rest…

I’ve spent some time off and on today with the latest tool from NYTimes.com: TimesPeople, a Firefox add-on that functions as a combo recommendation engine and low-frills social network. The add-on is part of the beta phase: NYTimes.com promises that it will be “baked into the site” for the 1.0…