Wall Street Journal adding mobile fees to subscription menu, expanding push for more revenue

October 6th, 2009 Medicines sets 3Q revenue outlook below forecastsPARSIPPANY, N.J. — Drugmaker Medicines Co.

September 21st, 2009 Dow Jones to shutter Far Eastern ReviewSAN FRANCISCO — Dow Jones & Co. will stop publishing the Far Eastern Economic Review in December.

August 27th, 2009 TiVo Inc. posts smaller-than-expected 2Q lossALVISO, Calif. — TiVo Inc.

July 29th, 2009 Time Warner Cable 2nd-quarter profit risesNEW YORK — Time Warner Cable Inc., one of the nation's biggest cable TV system operators, said Wednesday higher subscription revenue helped boost its second-quarter profit by 14 percent, beating Wall Street expectations. Quarterly profit rose to $316 million, or 89 cents per share, in the three months ended June 30, up from $277 million, or 85 cents per share, a year ago.

June 16th, 2009 Dow Jones names Wall Street Journal Europe editorNEW YORK — Patience Wheatcroft, a former editor for The Times of London and The Sunday Telegraph, was named Tuesday as The Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief for Europe. The appointment comes amid a broad reorganization that began with its takeover more than a year ago by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

June 10th, 2009 USA Today publisher sees hope in mobile platformsNEW YORK — USA Today's new publisher said Wednesday he hopes to expand the newspaper's revenue from mobile phones and portable electronic reading devices, and pledged to fight The Wall Street Journal's bid for readers in hotels. The comments from David Hunke, named USA Today's publisher in April by Gannett Co., come as the nation's top newspaper by circulation — along with the rest of the media industry — is grappling with steep advertising declines.

April 29th, 2009 Time Warner 1Q adjusted results top Wall StreetNEW YORK — Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit fell 14 percent as AOL and publishing results continued to crumble under the weight of deteriorating ad sales.

April 22nd, 2009 NYC comptroller eyes Quadrangle feesNEW YORK — The New York City comptroller's office is reportedly looking into whether private-equity firm Quadrangle Group — once headed by Steven Rattner — misled or deceived city pension funds. Rattner now leads President Barack Obama's auto-industry bailout.

March 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian outsourcer Infosys Technologies Ltd. expects to find acquisition opportunities in the US during the downturn even as a rise in protectionist sentiment is holding back potential customers, it was reported here Friday.

March 19th, 2009 SINGAPORE - A Singapore justice Thursday fined an editor of The Wall Street Journal 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,600) for three articles that the city-state's government said showed contempt of its judiciary, a news report said. Melanie Kirkpatrick, a deputy editor of the New York-based business newspaper's editorial page, had acknowledged responsibility for the publication of the articles in The Wall Street Journal Asia that the justice found to be in contempt of court.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Wednesday gave approval to two foreign newspapers, the Wall Street Journal and the Wall Street Journal Asia, to publish their facsimile editions from India. This is for the first time the government has approved the publication of the facsimile edition of foreign newspapers.

February 5th, 2009 JAMMU - Telecom operator Reliance Communications (RCom) Friday launched its GSM services in over 50 towns and more than 5,000 villages in Jammu and Kashmir, and said its nationwide footprint has been completed. 'National and state highways, rail routes, tourist locations and places of worship have been covered,' said Arvind Kumar, RCom's head of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab circle.

January 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Executives at the Wall Street Journal's New York office received more than a dozen envelopes containing an unidentified white powder, the newspaper reported Wednesday. Police were investigating whether the powder was hazardous.

January 5th, 2009 JAIPUR - Reliance Communications (R-Com), India's only telecom service provider to offer GSM and CDMA services nationwide, has launched mobile GSM services in over 1,450 towns and more than 10,000 villages in Rajasthan. The company also launched a first-of-its-kind Customer Experience Programme (CEP) for subscribers opting for its GSM services, which offers up to 100 percent savings to sub-Rs.300 Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) mobile customers for a one-time subscription charge (including GSM SIM) of Rs.25.

January 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reliance Communications, an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company, crossed 100,000 subscribers on the first day of the launch of its service in Mumbai, the company said in a statement Monday. 'The high volume sales can be attributed to the company's aggressive strategy,' an R-Com spokesperson said in the statement.