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iCircular: Newspapers’ Latest Weapon in the War Against Decline

It’s taken a while, but newspapers across the U.S. are finally ready to leverage all those retailer relationships, build their own mobile coupon service and possibly revitalize their dying ad businesses.

Denver Post Dumps Righthaven, Bogus Lawsuit Company Just About Dead and Gone

Righthaven's dream of corporate enrichment via frivolous lawsuits is in tatters, and the company's erstwhile partners are abandoning ship. The new CEO of MediaNews Group, John Paton, announced this week that its partnership with Righthaven would expire at the end of the month and that the company has no plans to renew it.

Senh: Good riddance.

Newspaper developing its own tablet

Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.

Senh: This is stupid and a waste of their time. They should be focusing on their content, and how to distribute it. Building an app for tablet computers makes sense. Building hardware doesn't. It has never been their thing. What makes them think they can compete with Apple, Google, and every wireless carrier who has or is developing a line of tablets.

Philadelphia Papers Sold

A group of lenders once again came out on top in the auction for the publisher of Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers, winning with a cash bid of $105 million and besting a rival group led by local philanthropist Raymond Perelman.

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