Recent reports by some Hong Kong newspaper groups paint a mixed picture of how they are adapting to changing conditions.

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Tencent Holdings, operator of QQ, China’s biggest instant messaging service, remains optimistic regarding the impact on its business of slowing economic growth.

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Baidu, operator of China’s biggest Internet search engine, posted a 91 percent increase in third-quarter profit in October after surging Web usage enticed more firms to buy advertising on its site.

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Google’s planned acquisition of Russian online advertising company ZAO Begun has been blocked by the country’s federal anti-monopoly service authority (FAS).

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EBay has quietly gone live in Germany and the U.S.—two of its biggest markets—with a search-marketing service for business clients (shop owners) which is bound to make a lot of (positive) waves in months to come

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In April 2009, The Christian Science Monitor will switch from a daily print publication to a weekly schedule.

Yahoo has upgraded how it geo-targets ads to Web surfers.

The anticipated battle for market share between German-based business network Xing and its US-based counterpart Linkedin has not left any marks on Xing to date. If anything, it seems to have strengthened it.

Classifieds software provider Adicio has opened up offices in Haarlem, The Netherlands, just east of Amsterdam, to service the company’s existing European clientele and to lead new business efforts.

The New York Times has relaunched its site video on Brightcove’s new high-def, widescreen player, NYTimes.com acknowledged.

Dutch media are reporting that MySpace is closing its Amsterdam office.

EBay France this past week launched “EBay Immo,” a section dedicated to real estate classifieds, with French homes and apartments to sell or rent as well as vacation rentals.

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AdLink Media has signed a deal with EBay’s free-ad LoQuo in Spain to manage the network-advertising space on the classified-ads portal.

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McClatchy joins the parade of media groups reporting tough news. The company’s Q3 net income from continuing operations came in at only $4.2 million, half of what analysts expected.

But George Irish says the success of local franchises will depend on radically different cost structures, partnerships with competitors, alliances among media companies, and close tracking of consumers’ adoption of technologies.

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Group dating site Ignighter allows friends to collaborate on a group profile which the company then matches with other groups to arrange get-togethers in the real world.

CanWest is in deep trouble, says TD Newcrest, a Canadian advisory firm which has downgraded its rating for the company from “speculative buy” to “reduce.”

Young-at-heart category seeks rich business model for long-term relationship.

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