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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has grand plans to cut through the partisan noise and remind our country's politicians of their problem-solving duties: On Tuesday, he's hosting a gigantic, public telephone town hall, and asking all "concerned Americans" to join his movement and participate.

The Associated Press is leading the formation of a news-licensing entity that it hopes will help publications collect royalties from content distributed through mobile phones, tablet computers and wireless-computing devices.

The world's biggest wire service and the leading search engine have worked out their differences. Google and the Associated Press have reached a new licensing deal that ensures the latter's content will be hosted on Google News for a long time to come.

CNN has cut ties with the Associated Press, a wire service that has been a backbone of American news media for more than a century. The move exemplifies how the news industry and its traditional business models are changing in the ever-accelerating information age.

CNN is ending its subscription to the Associated Press as it devotes more resources to its own newsgathering efforts, including a proprietary wire service.

Copyright and fair use doctrine were at the heart of a recent debate about how news organizations are going to make money in the digital age -- if indeed they are.

Google is now investigating whether some of its own employees helped carry out the recent cyber-attack in China, which exposed Gmail accounts of U.S. companies and Chinese dissidents. News reports also say foreign reporters based in China were targeted by the hackers, too.

Jonathan Katz, who had the Haiti beat largely to himself thanks to newsroom cutbacks in international coverage, is no longer alone. Media's biggest names including Diane Sawyer and Anderson Cooper have landed since the earthquake. Katz's house here is in ruins, but he mourns for the rest of the island.

Is Google no longer playing nice with Old Media? The search giant has stopped hosting new stories from the Associated Press, as talks over a new licensing deal flounder. The AP reportedly wants more from the deal, while Google's move seems designed to show the AP what the loss of Google News readership would mean.

Contrary to earlier published reports, the hijacked U.S.-bound oil tanker Maran Centaurus is carrying about $140 million worth of Saudi crude -- not the $20 million previously claimed -- DailyFinance has learned. Reached in Greece Tuesday, a representative for Maran Tankers Management, the ship's...