The New York Times is building a public beta testing site where it will experiment with new ideas and applications before deciding whether they deserve to go live on NYTimes.com.

BSkyB has acquired Virgin Media Television for up to £160m and entered into a number of agreements providing for the carriage of certain Sky standard and high-definition (HD) channels.

French newspaper group Le Monde may try to sell its group operations, which include the newspaper, website, and television listings' guide Télérama, The Times has reported. The group has debts up to €125m and the paper lost €25m (£21m) last year, which was its tenth yearly loss in a row.

Google has unveiled Google TV , an interface for web-based television. The Google TV platform is driven by search and easy access to content, integrating web browsing and standard TV content into a Google Chrome-powered platform. Google proposes that the TV will act as a hub for gaming, photo viewing, TV and internet content.

CNN International is to open a pop-up café in London this summer for hungry pedestrians looking for their daily news fix. The CNN News Café will also serve as a live location for interviews and live broadcasts while punters can create and submit their own news stories via CNN's interactive user-generated iReport booth.

Newspaper group Trinity Mirror saw its shares fall 12% yesterday following its report that like-for-like revenues had fallen 5% in the year to May 2nd. Ad revenues were down 5% year-on-year overall, but the picture was worse at the regionals division, where it fell by 8%.

Newsweek has been put up for sale by its owners the Washington Post Company who own the title since 1961. The decision to sell the weekly title comes one year after the publication went through a major redesign.

CNN is integrating a host of Facebook features into its CNN.com and CNNMoney.com sites. The new features on both websites allows users to recommend, share or comment on CNN content through the Facebook Connect platform.

For a token fee of £1 (plus assuming responsibility for a big bundle of debt, of course), Alexander Lebedev has once again acquired a major UK newspaper. This time it's the Independent and its sister title the Independent on Sunday. He also receives £9.25m to take on the liabilities. It is estimated it would have cost IN&M £30m to simply shut the titles down.

The Independent's circulation fell by over a quarter between January 2008 and January 2010, to 185,815; meanwhile, ad revenue at the title dropped by 33% in 2009.

The Russian business daily Kommersant is set to launch an FM radio station in the capital, according to reports in The Moscow Times.

The radio station will focus on business and financial information and draw on content from its print counterpart.