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An Industry Imperiled by Falling Profits and Shrinking Ads (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Some say 2008 will mark a dark turning point for the newspaper industry, which has been besieged by shrinking profits and tumbling stock prices.

EU, Industry to Fund 'Green' Aviation R&D (BusinessWeek) - The Clean Sky project will examine everything from engines to aircraft design to reduce emissions and lower the carbon footprint of the aeronautics industry

Shrinking ad revenue realigns U.S. newspaper industry (International Herald Tribune) - Last year started badly for the industry and ended worse, with shrinking profits and tumbling stock prices, and 2008 is shaping up as more of the same.

Wash. grape and wine industry worth $3 billion to state (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi) - YAKIMA, Wash. -- The good news keeps coming for Washington's grape growers and winemakers: a new study released Thursday shows the industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy...

Mobile phone industry heads for Barcelona (Khaleej Times) - PARIS - The most established names in telecoms, Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world’s biggest events for the mobile phone industry.

Wash. grape and wine industry worth $3 billion to state (The Olympian) - The good news keeps coming for Washington's grape growers and winemakers: a new study released Thursday shows the industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy in 2006 and employs nearly 19,000 people.

A federal appeals court says Texas cable industry can go ahead with lawsuit challenging a state law; Merck & Co. will ... (Austin American-Statesman) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Texas cable industry can go ahead with a lawsuit challenging a state law that opened the state's television services market to more competition.

Comedian Lenny Henry calls TV industry racist (Daily Telegraph) - Lenny Henry, the comedian, attacked the television industry, accusing it of discriminating against ethnic minorities.

Gambinos linked to internet gaming industry (Financial Times) - Offshore internet gambling played a vital role in supporting the criminal enterprises of the Gambino family, US officials said, in the latest evidence of the connections between the industry and organised crime.

Industry leaders join board of OpenID foundation (Addict 3D) - Several industry leaders in the tech industry, and in particular the online side of it, have officially joined the OpenID foundation as corporate board members, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, and VeriSign.