NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Microsoft Corp  has had talks with News Corp  about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google , a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

A former New York Times distributor has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding the newspaper company out of $334,000.

The New York Times News Service, which repackages Times stories for other media outlets, is laying off up to 25 employees.

The New York Times News Service, which repackages Times stories for other media outlets, is laying off at least 25 employees.

Less than a month after cutting 100 newsroom jobs, the New York Times said on its website it would fire at least 25 editorial employees next year at the New York Times News Service.

News Web sites are starting to look a lot less like newspapers and a lot more like television, says the New York Times.

The Wall Street Journal will close its Boston bureau to save money, and shift coverage of the mutual fund industry to its money and investing reporting team, the newspaper's editor said on Thursday.

The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs — about 8 percent of the total — by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and nonunion employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday.

It's the basic question when investing in a stock: is it on the way up or will it go down? To answer this question,  Wall Street has developed numerous ways of attempting to predict what will happen, estimating various attributes tied to stock performance in order to determine what the future holds for a company's valuation. After dissecting the data, analysts following a particular stock produce a price target of where they believe the  stock is headed. Out of the entire S&P 500, which stocks are analysts expecting to have the biggest price drops?  Here's the top 20, according to ThomsonReuters (as of market close on 10/16/09). Click ahead to find out!

Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as a friend with a new service it hopes will make it easier for readers to read newspaper and magazine articles.

Jayson Blair knows his new profession — life coach — smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline.

The Dow topped 9,000 for the first time since January as investors shrugged off a rise in jobless claims and cheered earnings from Ford and 3M. A third straight rise in existing-home sales also buoyed the market.