Telegraph.co.uk saw user numbers increase by five million last month, thanks in large part to improved back-end technology, higher news production and strong content, the Telegraph has stated, the Guardian reported Tuesday.

Unique users to the Telegraph's Web site increased by 38.7 percent from February to March, to more than 17 million, the Telegraph reported.

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Parent company of The Dallas Morning News, A.H. Belo Corporation, reported a US$8.7 million loss in its first quarter as an independent firm, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.

During the period from January to March, A.H. Belo also saw revenue slide nine percent from the same quarter the year before, to $160.2 million.

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The mobile music market in Germany has long focused on ringtones, but now full-track downloads are increasing sales.

During 2007, 5.2 million full-track songs were downloaded to mobile phones, up 53 percent over 2006, according to new figures from BITKOM and GfK Panel Services.

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New York City Spanish-language daily, El Diario La Prensa, saw a 7.6 percent rise in weekday circulation, according to information released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Monday, Editor & Publisher reported.

Weekday sales of El Diario, published by ImpreMedia, were at 53,856 copies, up from 50,047 for the same period last year.Only three paid circulation, U.S. Spanish-language dailies are audited by ABC.

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Media conglomerate Cox Enterprises Inc., which foresees shrinking newspaper and television audiences and plans to keep an eye on the online market, spent US$300 million to buy a startup, the Associated Press reported.

The deal with Adify Corp., announced Tuesday, represents the latest evolution for the media company, which began over a century ago with one newspaper in Ohio, and later expanded to new areas including radio, television and cable systems in the United States.

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