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—> According to the NYT, Sirius XM owes $175 Million by the end of February and it may not be able to pay up. Bankruptcy may very well be in the cards for the Satellite Radio super-organism. The article cites a failure to "to win over many younger listeners" and the general economic downturn.  More »

—>Hear the scorn of a million parents cry out in righteous anger: despite recently increasing basic text messaging rates from ten cents to twenty across the board, NYT reveals that Carriers pay roughly nothing.  More »

—>Yay! Free New York Times! The NYT will discontinue its pay wall tomorrow, freeing the opinions of various smart people to roam the internet unchecked by that pesky $7.95 per month subscription fee. Oh, happy day.  More »

"It's part of our journalistic mission to get people talking on campuses," says Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager at NYTimes.com. "We wanted to open that up so that college students and professors can have a dialogue."

Welcome, readers from this morning's NYT business section.  More »

—>NYT reports Walmart wants to close its German stores, after years of failing to crack the Teutonic market.  More »

—>We've never been graced with enough foresight or luck to actually purchase a home. Since we recently discovered that we would be forced to find a new apartment over a year before our lease was scheduled to be up, we have been trying to learn the ins-and-outs of home ownership. Our first lesson? We can't afford to purchase a home in New York. So that was easy.  More »