Currently, 90 percent of all Japanese citizens own a mobile phone, and four out of 10 mobile owners use them to access the Internet, giving Japan the world's largest mobile Internet population, eMarketer announced Friday.

The group's Japan Online Overview estimates that the number of Internet users in Japan reached 89.1 million in 2007.

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Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen wrote in what the newspaper described as “an unusually blunt internal memo,” that the publication is facing its “most difficult and painful downsizing” in history, the result of print revenue losses that are expected to reach $33 million for 2007 and 2008.

Blethen also blamed the downturn of advertising revenue shifting to the Internet, writing that “with the company at bare bones, these cuts will hurt deeply going into 2008 and the remainder of the decade.”

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Sixty percent of the shares of Metro's Czech edition was sold Dec. 21 to competitor Mafra, owned by German publisher Rheinische Post.

Metro will be operated under a trademark license, and will be merged in the near future with Mafra’s free paper Metropolitni Expres.

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