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The Washington Post plans to launch its iPad app "in the coming weeks," following The New York Times' and Wall Street Journal's efforts on the Apple device, The Upshot reported.

"Mobile continues to be a key distribution platform for our content, utility for our readers, and, a core enabler of our growing digital business," Ken Babby, chief revenue officer and general manager for Washington Post Digital stated in a staff e-mail Wednesday.  

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Social media usage surged among U.S. adults ages 50 and up, according to a latest survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates on behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Media Post reported.

The survey also suggested social media may be an effective advertising and marketing platform to reach older Internet users.

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Global online recruiting site Monster has completed its acquisition of Yahoo!'s HotJobs for $225 million (£145 million), Recruiter reported.

Monster also inked a three-year commercial traffic agreement with Yahoo!. According to the deal, Monster will become Yahoo!'s provider of career content and will pay $20 million to $31 million a year to Yahoo! for the redirected traffic, Boston Herald reported.

"Newspapers have 12 years or less left to live in print," according to the digital consultant Ross Dawson, who will speak in the Newspaper Publishers' Association forum in Sydney, Australia this Thursday, mUmBRELLA reported.

According to a NPA release, Dawson said: "By 2022 newspapers as we know them will be irrelevant in Australia. However the leading newspaper publishers of today may have transformed themselves to thrive in what will be a flourishing media industry," The Australian reported.

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The Associated Press has launched an interactive Web hub, APTop25.com, which provides in-depth coverage on college football, Editor & Publisher reported.

Readers can check out the latest news, photos, and statistics about Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools, as determined by the AP Top 25 Poll. Other features include content from AP member publications and college football blogs, Media Bistro reported.

APN News & Media is upbeat for improving advertising markets, despite an underwhelming half-year result, The Australian reported.

APN News & Media saw its shares close 9 percent lower after it posted net profit of AU$40 million for the first half of the year.

Declines in the newspaper industry are expected to slow down this year, and the market will eventually stabilise by 2013 and resume growth in 2014, according to the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast 2004-2014, Editor & Publisher reported.

VSS predicted that retail, classified and national advertisers will continue to shift budgets to digital platforms "to target audiences and improve return on investment," as print circulations drop, which indicates consumers' migration to new electronic media, the report stated.

"Defying classic economic models, the demand for communication (cell phones) leads traditional media growth, signifying a global, disruptive phenomenon," states a new report by Nielsen Wire, with research from The Cambridge Group, Media Post reported.

The Internet will continue to grow, but "at more predictable patterns," the report added.

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In the second quarter, The Newspaper Association of America spent US$290,000 lobbying the federal government on issues such as the future of media, privacy and legislation aimed at making government information public, according to The Associated Press article posted on Business Week.

The amount was up from $250,000 in the previous quarter, as well as $278,000 in the same quarter of 2009, according to a Congressional disclosure form.

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