twx

What media-industry developments and market forces will make headlines in the year to come? Pay-to-read online content, tablet computers, mom-and-pop newsrooms and, oh yes -- banks taking over the magazine and newspaper game.

Five media companies that spend most of their time in bitter competition with one another are now joining forces in a new venture intended to midwife the arrival of portable digital magazines and newspapers on a mass scale.

The Dividend Growth Investor gives us the top dividend stocks to accumulate now. ___________________ Former auto czar (and private equity mogul) Steve Rattner goes to bat for Bernanke. ___________________ It's not so easy to play chess on a roller coaster. ___________________

Three stocks I'm thankful for this holiday season. _________________ Is there a Buffett Bubble in railroad stocks? _________________ And the Lonely Value Investor asks if Buffett has lost his mind by buying a railroad. _________________

Interesting to know that the Taylor Swift stock index has been outperforming the U.S. stock market indexes. _______________ Does an increase in turkey consumption signal the recession is over? _______________ A merger arb anecdote from Kid Dynamite. _______________

Long-awaited layoffs arrived at Time Inc. Tuesday, and those near the top were not spared. At Fortune, three of the four remaining assistant managing editors have been pink-slipped. John Brodie, Brian Dumaine and Eric Gelman are all departing, leaving only Stephanie Mehta, who, according to one...

The comic book industry may not able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but it has withstood the worst economic decline since the Great Depression fairly well. According to industry estimates, sales to specialty retailers rose 1% to $324.66 million between January and September. Experts say...

On Wednesday morning, during Time Warner (TWX)'s third-quarter earnings conference call, chairman Jeff Bewkes said, "We'll continue to take a look at non-strategic and less profitable titles." Apparently, one of those non-strategic titles is Fortune Small Business. A Time Inc. spokesman confirms...

The guillotine has begun its descent at Time Inc. Sources at the publishing company (which is part of the same conglomerate as DailyFinance parent AOL) say executives have asked for an emergency meeting with representatives of the Newspaper Guild to discuss job eliminations. A Time Inc. spokeswoman...

The media recession may be gradually lifting, according to Rupert Murdoch and Janet Robinson, but that doesn't mean everyone with a publishing job is going to make it to the other side. Forbes Inc. embarked on a fresh round of layoffs this week, and employees at Time Inc., the world's biggest...