Nikkei Inc., the Japanese publisher whose brands include business publications the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun and the Nikkei Weekly, has announced it will soon begin charging users to access certain content. And Nikkei President, Tsuneo Kita, says if it the new model works, he’ll happily share his experiences with other newspaper groups.

An Australian study has found that newspaper Web sites are not cannibalizing their print-based parents and that consumers see the two forms as complementary.

Singapore Press Holdings, owner of The Straits Times, has launched a new site giving help to businesses who want to build a social networking plan. 

About 200 newspaper professionals from 38 countries made the trip to Copenhagen to hear the expert’s views on “Where’s the Money?” Unfortunately also this year no one presented the silver bullet that will solve all the newspapers’s revenue problems. However, at the end of the conference participants returned with two major learnings: First: You need to have and use intelligent data analysis tools to succeed. Second: Coffee shops have far more to do with your business than you ever imagined.

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Betaworks, investor and incubator for innovative technology companies and social media projects, raises second-round funds

Keyword searches of eight or more words increase by 4 percent in February; Google at 71 percent of all searches, automotive searches via Bing more than doubled.