After much internal discussion and tons of outside advice, the New York Times is now asking a constituency that really counts how much it would pay for online content: print subscribers. In a survey that started out Thursday, the NYT offers multiple scenarios, including one at $5 a month for…

Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Speaking in Sun Valley, where he is participating in the Allen & Co. conference, Murdoch said: “I don’t think that’s likely. We’re…

The 5,000 Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) subscribers taking part in the company’s planned online VOD trial this summer will have access to 300 movies and some original programming from Starz Entertainment—if they already subscribe to the premium network. The Comcast On Demand Online trial is the first toe in the water…

Social net ad spending is expected to rebound next year, says eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson, expanding her previously released projections released in May that forecast a 3 percent drop to $1.1 billion in ‘09. The earlier figures are entirely unchanged and pinned the blame on MySpace’s struggles, which have…

While sources tell paidContent Publicis Groupe still appears to be winning the tug of war for Microsoft’s Razorfish, two WPP Group execs insist the UK ad holding company is still very much in the running. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) did have a set of talks with WPP about buying Razorfish last…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO)—which has seen the ranks of its subscribers drop—and Best Buy—which is ramping up its digital initiatives—think they can help each other out. The two companies are forming a partnership to promote each other’s offerings. The basics, via the NYT and the San Jose Mercury News: Best Buy…

Microsoft has promoted Steven Sinofsky, an executive lauded for his role in leading the engineering groups behind the development of the company’s next operating system, to president of the company’s Windows division. In that role, he will also oversee the company’s group of Windows Live-branded online services, as well Internet…

Online jobs services company Monster Worldwide (NSDQ: MNST) is cutting 160 positions and adding another 80, saying that it needs employees with “different skills and expertise” as it develops new products. Like other online recruiting companies, Monster has been hard hit by the recession—its revenue dropped 31 percent during the…

Adding heft to its entry into the operating system market, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) disclosed it was working with a number of major netbook makers on Chrome OS. Among the partners Google listed: Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo. Google’s plans call for Chrome OS to be on netbooks by the middle…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has lost an arbitration hearing against VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) related to a mobile partnership that the companies were involved with, according to an SEC filing that just came out from Real. The judgment came down in May and there was a further ruling on it under which…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) still hasn’t commented on Google’s plans to introduce an operating system of its own. An official statement is coming later today and we’ll post it here when it comes out. (Update: Microsoft now says it will in fact not comment). But there are lots of reasons why…

That was quick: The United States Olympic Committee announced this morning that it will launch a cable TV network devoted to Olympic and Paralympic Games next year, along with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) who will carry it in its lineup. Comcast is an equity partner in the channel. And soon after…

Two price cuts don’t make a pattern but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is making the same move with Kindle 2 that it tried with Kindle 1: sell it with a first-in premium, then drop the price a few months later for the fence sitters. Amazon introduced the Kindle in November 2007…

It took a few weeks, but *Sony* CEO Sir Howard Stringer has responded to *Activision* CEO Bobby Kotick’s very public threat to stop making games for the PS3 if Sony (NYSE: SNE) didn’t slash the console’s price to boost sales: “He likes to make a lot of noise,” Stringer told…

Another acquisition by Thomson Reuters: it has acquired private equity backed Indlaw Communications, a Delhi-based legal information company, for an undisclosed amount. Indlaw runs a legal, tax and regulatory information database website at Indlaw.com. The site, founded by lawyer Joseph Pookkatt in 2002, had received early stage investment from private…

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is planning to revamp ESPNSoccernet and its other sports sites to coincide with the launch of its first European sports channel next month. The sports network won the rights to show 46 live English Premier League matches next season after Irish pay TV company Setanta went out…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is back at work, but the company still can’t shake questions about whether it may have misled investors about the status of his health. Seven months after the SEC began an investigation into Apple Inc.‘s public comments on Jobs’s medical condition, the inquiry continues,…

As Gannett (NYSE: GCI) continues to be roiled with huge debt problems, an absent CEO, and hundreds more layoffs across its community newspapers, its digital division appears to be a sea of calm. In fact, to hear Josh Resnik (pictured), Gannett Digital’s VP and GM of the Gannett Digital Media…

Brendan Condon, head of overseas ops for AOL’s Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) advertising group, is leaving London after 13 months for a new role - the latest exec change as new CEO Tim Armstrong’s 100-day review nears completion. A UK spokesperson told us: “Brendan is returning to his home base of…