This NYT article sheds some light on the question of US awareness of Georgian military preparations. At the State Department in Washington, Mr. Fried, the top envoy for the region, received a phone call on Thursday from Georgia’s ...

This is David Brooks for the NYT (I have highlighted a few parts for emphasis) ... and investment companies have given Obama about $8 million, compared with $4.5 for McCain. People who work

A NYT article says that Americans waste $650 BILLION dollars over-checking their email obsessively. BILLION. Not Millions. Not Thousands.

You have a paper (as all of you know, the IHT is owned by the NYT) that is in crisis. In a big crisis. For many years. Losing money. Losing readers. Losing advertising....

Citigroup Posts a $5.1 Billion Loss NYT > Business Fri, 04/18/2008 - 05:58 Citigroup Inc. says it lost $5.1 billion during the first quarter as poor bets on mortgages and leveraged loans lopped billions of dollars from its investment portfolio.

Henry Blodget: At least two decisions were made at Yahoo's board meeting yesterday, say the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft: Yahoo will meet with both Microsft and Time Warner next week.As with much of the information about the Microsoft-Yahoo standoff that has appeared in the press, the board-meeting leaks seem carefully choreographed.

What did Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) board do when it met on Friday? Apparently, it agreed to hold more meetings with its perspective suitors. NYT reports that Yahoo will hold further meetings with both AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), as it figures out a path to go down. Meetings with both companies are scheduled for the coming week. Meanwhile, Microsoft's proposed partnership with News ...

What did Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) board do when it met on Friday? Apparently, it agreed to hold more meetings with its perspective suitors. NYT reports that Yahoo will hold further meetings with both AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), as it figures out a path to go down. Meetings with both companies are scheduled for the coming week. Meanwhile, Microsoft's proposed partnership with News ...

Competition to the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium has been growing - as has pressure related to Microsoft's (NSDQ: MSFT) proposed buyout - but the company has remained focused on staying ahead with its long-planned Apex ad selling system, which gets its big introduction Monday as "AMP," according to reports in NYT and AdAge.

NYT's special Dealbook section today had a deliciously giant graphic on the global path money takes in today's deal making. You may have stumbled