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The Economist Is Building A Wall

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The Economist Magazine is building a paywall to limit the number of articles which readers can access online for free, the latest sign that publishers are rethinking their attitude towards free web content.

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Only articles from the past 90 days will be available to the general browser, rather than 12 months under the current system. From the 13th of October, when something over 90 days will be behind a big old pay wall and therefore will be available only to paying subscribers.

In another news, only subscribers may utilize the “This Week In Print” , which allows users to access the magazine in a digital format.

I’m assuming this is similar to what many News Corp sites will begin rolling out as well.

Source: CNET

Google To Increase Spending

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Google, the internet and Silicon Valley’s pacemaker said it will increase spending according to it’s CEO Eric Schmidt.

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We are clearly seeing aspects of recovery, and what is notable is that we’re seeing aspects of recovery not just in the United States but in Europe. I had been in error in assuming that there would be a lag, that it would the U.S. first and Europe second. Asia, of course, was never significantly hit in the first place.

So that means from a Google perspective that…we never stopped hiring, but we told our team internally and again, we’ve said to many other people that we are increasing our hiring rate and our investment rate in anticipation of a recovery.

The key point of recovery appears to be a slow but steady recovery in European markets which many thought would take another year or two to recover to this point.

Source: All Things D