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Ford COO sees difficult time for industry (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Ford Motor Co.'s chief operating officer on Tuesday declined to predict when the struggling automaker's North American operations would again be profitable, but said he sees difficult times for the whole industry in the next 18 to 24 months.

File-sharers make peace overtures to record industry (International Herald Tribune) - Several online file-sharing companies have started trying to reach an accord with the music industry to convert the free trading of copyrighted music on their networks to paid services, according to several music and file-sharing executives.

Jobs in UK film industry fall 20% (BBC News) - The number of jobs in the UK film industry fell by more than 6,000 last year, Film Council figures show.

Gulf seafood industry may survive Katrina (USA Today) - The jury is still out on Hurricane Katrina's impact on the nation's seafood industry as officials assess the environmental and financial damages. The region produces a large portion of seafood for the U.S. and officials say about two-thirds of Louisiana's oyster beds are destroyed.

Infinite Loop: Industry pressure about iTunes pricing grows louder (Ars Technica) - Earlier this month, we reported on some industry speculation about whether Apple and iTunes will be able to hold its current 99 cent pricing scheme for much longer, as music labels are rumored to be pressuring Apple to change this wildly successful pricing structure to reflect popularity of songs, hence destroying what is often cited as one of the brightest spots about why the iTunes Music Store

Jobs calls music industry greedy (Ars Technica) - The runaway success of online music ventures such as the iTunes Music Stores have left many wondering how the music industry would react. As I reported back in April of 2004, music executives have seen the success of the stores, and are rubbing their hands together with glee.

Amerityre Begins Automotive Industry Testing Phase for Non-Pneumatic Polyurethane Temporary/Spare Tire (The Auto Channel) - BOULDER CITY, Nev., Sept. 20 -- Amerityre Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: AMTY) announced that it has completed the developmental phase of its non-pneumatic [no-air] temporary/spare passenger car tire and is now in the process of delivering production quality prototype tires to the automotive industry for additional testing and evaluation.

GAO faults SEC's oversight of mutual fund industry (Boston Globe) - WASHINGTON -- Congressional investigators have questioned the adequacy of inspections of mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission, a few months after finding that the agency failed to uncover trading abuses throughout the fund industry that cost investors billions of dollars.

OilOnline - The Original Online Source for the Oil Industry (Oil Online) - Halliburton continues to improve on a technology that it first commercialized in 1949 -- hydraulic fracturing – by introducing its new Zero-DTM diesel free liquid gel concentrates. This industry-leading advancement will help operators move to higher levels of environmental performance.

Corn industry gets better handle on U.S. production (Farm And Ranch Guide) - With the release of USDA's Sept. 12 crop production estimates, the corn industry has a good idea of what to expect from this year's crop. Early private forecasts had suggested the corn crop could wind up larger or smaller than USDA's August estimate.