Boston Globe

Tablets, a new digital tollbooth, a traveling e-tailer, a smartphone tie-up, and a would-be titan toppler -- sounds like the plot for a Hollywood action movie, or, at the very least, the stuff that will dominate high-tech headlines in the coming days. Here's what to watch as the week unfolds.

The majority of jobs in the U.S. are created by small business, which are still reluctant to hire new workers. And while some of their reasons for holding back may mirror those of big businesses, local conditions like state taxes may loom larger in their decisions.

New York Times Co. (NYT) is in talks to sell its stake in the Boston Red Sox baseball team. "It continues to be for sale," New York Times CEO Janet Robinson said, according to Reuters. "We are continuing to talk to a variety of prospective buyers, large and small." The company expects to make a...

Things are still pretty tough for The New York Times Co. (NYT), but they're getting better. The publisher reported a $35.6 million loss in the third quarter of 2009, considerably better than analysts had expected. And, on an earnings call to discuss the results, Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson...

The New York Times Company (NYT), which had planned to sell The Boston Globe, now says it will keep it. The Times had taken bids for the paper, including one from Platinum Equity, a group led by a former Globe executive and a member of the Globe's founding family, which has recently bought other...

A former owner of The Boston Globe visited the newspaper recently. Stephen Taylor, whose great-grandfather started the newspaper, is looking to bring it back into the family. But he is facing competition from Platinum Equity, a private equity firm from Beverly Hills, California, which also visited...

It's no surprise that smaller newspapers are holding up better in the current media recession, which predates and has been exacerbated by the worldwide economic downturn. Historically, they have had wider margins and have not had to face the same competitive pressures as their urban, regional and...

Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), says there's still a lot of "creative destruction" to come in the media industry, because of the growth of online media. "Out of the shreds of this are going to come very vibrant business models," Diller said today at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech...

Things don't always go the way you planned. You do well in school, get a good job writing for a leading newspaper, and hope you'll have a comfortable and interesting career. Then along comes the internet, which scoops up your advertising revenue while giving away your reported content for free. You...

The people in charge at The New York Times Co. are all about transparency -- except when they're not. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and president Janet L. Robinson sent a memo to employees earlier today explaining what's been going on recently at the Boston Globe. (Short version: The...