Annual revenues of mobile search services are expected to reach $4.8 billion by 2013, Juniper Research firm has predicted in a study.

Some of the factors driving the growth include the decline of carriers' "walled garden" approach, falling data costs and the entrance of search giants such as Google and Yahoo.

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Well established media are dying and young people are not interested in traditional text or audiovisual media.

The above statement about newspapers and media today is one of the most believed, and also the most untrue, Robert Picard, one of the world's foremost media economics, management and government communications policies experts, wrote Tuesday.

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Glasgow's evening newspaper, the Evening Times, is launching 12 more community-based Web sites Wednesday, in addition to the 12 it launched earlier this month, as part of its goal of launching 80 such sites by the end of the year, AllmediaScotland reported.

“Plans for the second dozen were accelerated after feedback from readers wanting to know when their area was going to be included,” the paper stated.

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Wall Street closed Tuesday with all publicly traded newspaper companies in positive territory, Editor & Publisher reported.

The newspaper sector's biggest gainer was the Sun-Times Media Group, which closed the day at 79 cents, a 19 cent (27.1 percent) increase. Previously, STMG had been barred from on-the-floor trading because of its low stock price.

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UK national newspapers can increase revenues by hundreds of millions of pounds each year just by changing the way they charge for advertising on their Web sites, Ernst & Young research has revealed, Thomson Financial reported Tuesday.

Search giant Google Inc., for example, charges advertisers on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis, meaning that they charge advertisers every time a reader clicks on a Web ad. According to the Ernst & Young research, UK newspapers charge advertisers only every thousand times their ad appears on a Web site.

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West Australian Newspapers shareholders should not worry about Kerry Stokes looking for seats on the publishers board of directors, a director of Seven Network said, ABC News reported Wednesday.

Stokes, who owns almost 20 percent of WA Newspapers and controls Seven Network, said he is looking for a seat for himself and fellow director Peter Gammell, because he wants to “refresh the direction of the company,” the report stated.

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Dayton Daily News editorial workers on Tuesday received a boost of support from a U.S. senator in their quest to receive a new contract, as employees have been working under a contract ratified in 1986, the Associated Press reported.

“I stand with you as you fight for this,” U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told the 75 people gathered outside newspaper offices, including editorial workers, city officials and labour leaders.

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The World Association of Newspapers and other publishers organisations on Wednesday welcomed Google CEO Eric Schmidt's statement supporting the aim of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) to give publishers more control over the use of their content.

Speaking to a reporter in Sydney earlier this week, Schmidt said the only barriers to Google's implementation of ACAP were technical, and he denied that Google was reluctant to embrace the system because of commercial self-interest. "It is not that we don't want them (publishers) to be able to control their information," he said.

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