Agora has launched a new e-mail service in partnership with Google, the Polish media company announced in a statement.

G.pl web mail is based on Google's popular Gmail, and uses Google's technology to provide high quality, extended capacity and functions, such as calendar synchronization, voice and text communicator (Google Talk) and documents sharing among G.pl and Gmail users, Agora stated Monday.

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The Guardian America site was launched Tuesday, aimed to meet the needs of a growing U.S. audience, according to its editors.

Michael Tomasky, editor of the Guardianamerica.com site, said it would include the best of the UK site and also “political and cultural coverage of the States that is more geared toward a US audience’s interests.”

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Strikes by public transport workers in France meant two free dailies, MatinPlus and Direct Soir, were not published last Thursday and Friday, Newspaper Innovation reported Wednesday.

Both free dailies are published by Vincent Bolloré.

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John Mulholland will take the reins from Roger Alton as editor of The Observer at the end of the year.

Previously at the Guardian, Alton has been at The Observer for more than 20 years, and has served as arts editor, features editor, editor of Weekend magazine and assistant editor. Mulholland is currently deputy editor at The Observer, Press Gazette reported Wednesday.

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GateHouse Media Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy several daily and non-daily publications from Morris Publishing Group for $115 million.

GateHouse Media said the acquisition is expected to generate “an incremental $14 million of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization,” according to Finanz Nachrichten.

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Susan L. Decker, Yahoo’s President, said that the company would emphasize partnerships with popular local search engines in South Korea in order to maintain Yahoo's strong position in the country’s online search market.

"South Korea's Internet market is expected to rise 20 percent on average annually over the next four years. South Korea is a single largest market except that of the U.S.," Decker said, unveiling her intention Tuesday for a bigger stake in the world's most Internet-savvy country.

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