The deterioration of print revenue is helping drive newspapers to sell Yahoo services, two panelists said.

A summary of yesterday’s tech and media stock drops as the Dow dips below 8,000.

Facebook has quietly launched a new feature that has the potential to significantly increase the amount of page rank that Google uses to track Web site, potentially resulting in much higher placement during searches on Google for Facebook members.

How will local advertising adapt during the next few years? What will the winning services and tools be? Matt Booth of BIA Kelsey Group outlined his top five bullet points at the Interactive Local Media conference.

King Features is launching Comics Kingdom, an ad-driven portal for local newspaper Web sites.

Ziff Davis’s PC Magazine is the latest to go online only.

When did Yahoo start to go wrong? It wasn’t just the current economy or the failed Microsoft acquisition bid. One ad exec pins the blame on two key hires in 2001.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down. Details here.

Twitter too chaotic for you? Try Twingr, kind of a “Ning for micro-blogging.”

Marketing execs: Yahoo’s not so bad after all.

The Wall Street Journal, one of the last remaining online newspapers that still puts some content behind a paid subscription wall, may be adding even more premium services.

Gannett said today it paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Ripple6, which provides social-media technology and related analytics.

Two execs from the world of interactive media are on the lineup for President-elect Barack Obama’s Agency Review Teams.

Canadian publisher and broadcaster Canwest Global has taken a whopping $1.01-billion write down on its Canadian television operations, citing dire expectations for advertising revenues to come. The loss reversed a year-earlier profit of $197 million.

Joe's blog post 'Optimized for mobile people' is right-on.

And here's a supporting argument: INQ, a start-up mobile phone manufacturer-distributor, is working on the release of a Facebook-enabled phone, which remembers what it is that mobile people like to do in the first place: keep in touch. It's not merely presentation of a mobile-enabled Web site, it's a whole new means of maintaining -- and amplifying --…

YouTube members can now buy keywords to place paid links on YouTube videos or channel pages.

Canwest Global Communications Corp. said it would trim about 560 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce, over the next few months in an effort to trim operating costs by about $61 million CAD ($49 million U.S.).

Corporate AMEX cards and pre-paid taxi “chits” are on the way out at Yahoo Canada.

Facebook is the social media site of choice for online retailer in the U.S., according to an August 2008 study. But its share of online display ad views is much lower.