For Facebook, the hope is that by slashing clutter and making content more aesthetically pleasing, users will spend more minutes on the site, clicking through on stories and exploring both the main news-feed channel, and the sub-feeds that appeal to their particular interests.
Realizing, belatedly, that Albritton is on the verge of doing to it in local news what it already did to it in political news, the Post is reportedly exploring a major hyperlocal venture of its own.
For the past few months, Examiner.com has been exploring ways to improve the quality of its news, and today it issued the first in a series of white papers outlining how it intends to do that.
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"I think the range of science questions that are there, and the methodologies and types of vehicle that we use to address that science, is going to follow very much the Mars model - we'll have one mission building on the success of another and exploring different questions, " he told BBC News.
Last year, Yahoo shares surged 12 percent on the news that another big media company was exploring a private equity-backed takeover bid.
The company and its chief executive, Carol Bartz, are grappling with issues including flat revenue, executive departures and news that private-equity firms have been exploring deal possibilities that include merging Yahoo with AOL Inc.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) is said to be exploring the purchase of Instinet Group , the electronic exchange currently majority-owned by Reuters PLC .
That is great news for travellers, who could easily spend weeks exploring the region's culinary culture, particularly as some of these other chefs and food producers offer unique, hands-on experiences at much more affordable prices than an El Bulli or El Celler dinner.
To do this many freelancers will move in behind the wire photographers, as they move on to new stories the freelance will come behind the news teams and start to work on in depth projects, exploring the subject, living in the space and in the best cases be able to present compelling stories and features that explore deeper issues.
The British lawyer representing dozens of alleged News Corp. phone-hacking victims was in New York last week, exploring options for a U.S. case against the company.
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The British lawyer representing dozens of alleged News Corp. phone-hacking victims is in New York this week, exploring options for a U.S. case against the company.
York pushed for an alliance between GM, Nissan Motor Co. (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) and Renault S.A., but after exploring the possibility for three months, GM's board scrapped the idea.
Ask Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), which Icahn badgered into letting go of Chief Executive Ed Zander and exploring how to sell off its handset division.
Executives of that company, which owns 18 daily newspapers, including the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel, told analysts at an investor conference last week it has working with the board in "exploring strategic alternatives" for its assets.
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