NEW YORK - Driven largely by the growth in legal music services, U.S. spending on online content grew 16 percent to nearly $1 billion in the first half of the year.

Spending was at $853 million in the first six months of 2004, according to the Online Publishers Association.

Its study also finds that spending in entertainment and lifestyles services has surpassed the previous leader,...

Long gone are the days when whiteout was a key tool for applying to college. Most of today’s college applicants probably don’t even know what it is. So when admissions officers and high school guidance counselors gathered at the College Board’s annual meeting in New York City this week, it was a given to most that their operations are increasingly online.

By The Associated Press Wednesday, November 02, 2005

BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) -- Big-city girl looking for small-town love? Hardworking farmer with little time to find that special someone?

An Ohio man may have the answer for your dating needs. His online dating service, farmersonly.com, has profiles of more than 1,800 people from around the nation, from nature lovers to farmers too bus...

A comScore Networks study used by the OPA shows that online consumer spending in the US continues at a robust pace. Entertainment was the top draw for content seekers, and digital music had the biggest share of that category.

In the report, OPA president Michael Zimbalist noted how two characteristics show that the same people spend the same amount of money online:

Oddly, the only f...

NEEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Forget Prague and Krakow, TripAdvisor(TM) travelers are yearning to visit Australia this year, according to a recent survey of more than 3,000 travelers from around the world. The top three most desirable travel destinations in the next year, if money were no object, are Australia, Italy and Hawaii.

"More than 3,000 travelers from around the world to...

In keeping with his fellow Renaissance painters, he broke away from two-dimensional stereotypes in favour of wonderful character studies and activities which, a century earlier, would have been branded profane or heretical.

Scenes like Sodoma's cat and dog encounter under the refectory table are typical Renaissance embellishments.

His people were the sort of interesting characters ...

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“Well, it said ‘Halloween Bash’ on the ad,” the 44-year-old explained, clutching a drink as he looked around at the other 100 or so normally dressed people.

“I went to one of these two years ago during Halloween and people there were in costume.”

Alas, Fox was the only buccaneer Friday at the speed dating event hosted by FastDater, a company that ...

ANYONE who checked their e-mail yesterday and received Editor-in-Chief Patrick Harvey's e-mail about an Oct. 27 cartoon will probably expect me to be writing in this space my response to the issue. Sorry, folks. I learned about the uproar at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday, so I didn't have adequate time before publication to thoroughly think out and write a response.

The cartoon surmised on ...

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2006 Pontiac G6 $189/mo; 2006 GMC Envoy $269/mo; 2006 Mazda Tribute $18,985 A male reader responded to my Sept. 12 column about how online dating differs from the real thing with this e-mail: "I read you...