Paper Cuts

Erica Smith, a St Louis journalist, has a blog called "Paper Cuts", which keeps track of job cuts in the newspaper business.
Started on a small scale in 2007, it obviously mushroomed as the number of cutbacks turned into a deluge. The Google Map she maintains showing the geographic locations of newspapers that have reduced staff gets very crowded by the number of pushpins on it now.

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics revenue and loss up (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Comcast To Challenge 30% Cap In U.S. Court of Appeals
Court will hear oral arguments in Comcast's challenge of FCC's decision April 24 (Multichannel News)

Sprout Not A Good Night For Kids: Children's Activists
Group Likens 'Good Night Show' To Sleeping Pill For Toddlers (Multichannel News)
Sprout is based in Philadelphia. I find this whole topic rather humorous.

Canoe Rows Toward Enhanced TV
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Dow Chemical/Rohm & Haas: Problems Solved? Hardly (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Herley Reports 2nd Quarter FY09 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)

As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero (New York Times)

Q&A: SAP Europe chief executive José Duarte (vnunet.com)

arcplan Unveils New arcplan Enterprise 6 (Business
Wire)

iPipeline is stocked with potential customers for Exton company's online insurance software (Keystone Edge)

As researchers explore the genome, Softgenetics provides the newest software to read the map (Keystone Edge)



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