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iFive: BP's $34 Billion Ticket, News Corp. Bids for BSkyB, North Korea vs. Brazil, Kindle Gets Twitter, Polygraphs Are Fun!

What did you dream about while you were sleeping last night? Lie detectors? Kim Jong Il? Oil Slicks? Well, innovation was living the dream.1. The Senate is demanding that BP pay $34 billion in fines for the Gulf oil spill. Ahead of ...READ»

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Editor of The Times Goes Online to Answer (Not Very Many) Questions on Impending Paywall

Following on from this morning's news that two of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers are to start charging, James Harding, editor of The Times, braved the Intertubes for a Q&A with his readers. Although there were no googlies ...READ»

Only a Bloody Pound: U.K.'s Times Gets an Online Paywall [Updated]

The long awaited sea-change in online newsprint has begun in earnest in the U.K., as two of its most popular and well-regarded broadsheets have announced paywalls. The Times and Sunday Times online will cost you from June. They're ...READ»

Murdoch Launches £50 Special Features "Club" to Save Newspaper

Back in August we heard the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper was to try out paid-membership clubs to try to drive up revenue, but now Rupert Murdoch has jumped on the idea. Yesterday saw the launch of Times+--a special features section to ...READ»