As traditional print media continues its steep declines in advertising sales and circulation, publishers are struggling to come up with new and creative ways to generate revenue.

Ad revenues in the newspaper industry plunged 16.7% last year to $37.8 million r, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The 2009 take is estimated to fall another 17.3% to $31.6 billion according to Alan Mutter, a Silicon Valley executive who once lead the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and San Francisco Chronicle and now writes a blog titled “Reflections of a Newsosaur.”

Mutter’s estimate would put ad revenues at their lowest levels since 1965, when the industry took in $4.42 billion, or $30.22 billion when adjusted for inflation, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) reported.

While the worst economic downturn since World War II has eviscerated the fortunes of print media companies like The New York Times Co. (NYSE:

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Thursday August 27, 2009

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Interactive multichannel retailer HSN, Inc. (Nasdaq:HSNI) announced today that the Company will participate in the Goldman Sachs 16th Annual Global Retailing Conference in New York City on Thursday, September 10, 2009. HSNi’s Chief Executive Officer, Mindy Grossman, and Chief Financial Officer, Judy Schmeling, will be meeting with investors throughout the day.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has signed a five-year strategic procurement outsourcing agreement with Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), the country’s largest foreign exchange bank.

NuMobile, Inc. (OTCBB: NUBL) is scheduled to be featured in an upcoming exclusive China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR) Webcast on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

by William Davies

Global commodity trading now takes place on a growing platform of modern, transparent commodity exchanges across all time zones. Using agreed frameworks of rules and regulations and standard contract designs we now see a wide range of commodities traded between end users and primary producers. The result is that it is now much easier to buy and sell across the range of basic commodities from orange juice to gold bullion, from crude oil to coffee beans.

While some of the major commodities like coffee and crude oil have been traded for a number of years, we are now seeing in modern commodity markets the strong innovation theme leading to new futures contracts being traded. One area where new product development has made a notable change is in the trading of carbon emission permits. Given the growing global concern about the serious long term impact to the environment …

Reis, Inc. (REIS) began Wednesday’s trading at $5.95, which was within its normal trading range from $5 to $6, but the day ended with REIS being listed as Nasdaq’s biggest percentage gainer. With the last trade at $7.15, the REIS common stock completed the day with an amazing 61.04 percent increase. Investors continue to show confidence in REIS as the stock continues to climb more gradually in the first few hours of today’s trading.

Investors may be looking into REIS due to the significant interest that CoStar Group, Inc. has shown for REIS in recent months. CoStar made an offer to acquire REIS at $8.75 per share on June 5 when the stock was at $5.42. The board of directors considered the proposal, but ended up rejecting the offer. Since that time, the REIS stock has decreased about 20 percent.

On August 12, CoStar again approached REIS and resubmitted its proposal