Mark enjoys the New York Times, and is happy to support their superior acts of journalism in a modern way with a digital subscription. This subscription would allow him all-you-can-read access from computers, tablets, smartphones…you name it. He owns an iPad and an Android phone, and tried to set up Times apps on both devices. The Android version refused to work, even when he reinstalled the app. His emails about the problem were answered but evidently not read. He decided to cancel his subscription…which is when the final insult came about. They offered to extend his subscription for a dollar, but ended up shortening it instead. [More]
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The New York Times Doesn't Want You Accessing Its RSS Feed Via An RSS Feed Reader
By 6.8.10
Update: Apple apparently realized that losing 30% of revenue on sales of the Pulse News Reader wasn’t worth playing along with the Times’ weirdness, and put the app back up for sale before the end of the day–with the newspaper’s feed still included as a default. [More]
Get Ready To Pay For Your New York Times In 2011
By 5.14.10
New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller announced that the paper will be charging for access to its articles early next year. [More]
Sirius XM May Be Preparing for Bankruptcy
By 2.11.09
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.
NYT: Text Messaging "Virtually No Cost" to Carriers
By 12.29.08
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.
New York Times To Discontinue Times Select
By 9.18.07
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.
Free NYT for Students, Teachers
By 3.13.07
“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.”
It’s now part of our journalistic mission to pretend we’re still in college. —MEGHANN MARCO
Choicepoint Coverage Lands Consumerist in NYT
By 11.12.06
Welcome, readers from this morning’s NYT business section.
Walmart Retreats From Germany
By 8.2.06
NYT reports Walmart wants to close its German stores, after years of failing to crack the Teutonic market.
Times Profiles FSBOMadison.com
By 1.3.06
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.
