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The New York Times Co. is slashing its quarterly dividend by 74 percent to preserve cash as the advertising slump worsens.

Wanna argue? Nope. Then you need Kerry Patterson and his co-writers, who describe techniques for effective negotiation and conflict resolution in the context of important, potentially life-changing conversations. Examples include talking yourself into a...

Warren Buffett, in an opinion piece in Friday’s New York Times, said he’s buying U.S. stocks for his personal account.

Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for his analysis of trading patterns.

General Motors has held discussions about a possible merger with Chrysler, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.

The New York Times plans to reduce the number of standalone sections of the New York metropolitan editions of the newspaper, a move designed to save money by cutting labor costs.

The New York Times will reduce the number of sections printed in the New York metropolitan area, in a move to save money on production.

With dozens of freshly minted applications on hand to stock its shelves, Google's Android Market is all but ready to open-- right across the street from Apple's App Store.

All Google needs now is for someone to start selling phones that use Android, its Linux-based mobile operating system.

According to reports, that will happen just in time for this year's Christmas buying season. It looks like the first Android-based devices to hit the shelves will be from T-Mobile, that's according to a story in the New York Times last month.

Dubbed the Dream, the phone is built around a large LCD and is...

Ever wondered how the U.S. diplomatic corps keeps track of all of its quickly changing information? Turns out, the same way all the rest of us do -- through Wikipedia.

The diplomatic wikipedia, Diplopedia, is not available to the public, though examples of pages are included in a publicly available presentation.

Started in September, 2006, it has 4,400 articles, 1,000 registered users, 650,000 total page views, and 20,000 new page views a week, according to Eric M.

Johnson of the State Department’s Office of eDiplomacy (aka "eDip") in Washington, D.C., said the New York Times.

In order...

Anyone remember all the fuss back at the end of 2005 when, in December of that year, it was revealed that Google had managed to beat off the attentions of Microsoft to ensure that its relationship with AOL remained good?

The New York Times reported at the time how Time Warner had agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in AOL to Google for $1 Billion.

Of course, the deal was really all about online advertising share. Not only in helping keep Google right there at the top of the online ad brokerage tree, but perhaps just as importantly to help thwart Microsoft plans to climb that tree itself.

Now,...