101.   For the past six months, the media world has been abuzz about Inside.com, an online entertainment news service.

102.   Fox also intends to spend money to upgrade its television news service.

103.   Foreign companies are concerned that Xinhua, which last year launched its own financial news service, will act as both regulator and competitor.

104.   Friday, Japanese news services reported that Ishikawa Bank, a regional bank, was filing for bankruptcy, the first Japanese bank failure in two years.

105.   Friday morning, as the market was opening, thousands of institutional and individual investors were scanning Internet business news services looking for trading tips.

106.   Friday, The chairman of a government advisory panel on tax reform, Hiroshi Kato, said such tax changes would be premature, the Jiji news service reported.

107.   For the past eight years, his rankings have been distributed by the Scripps-Howard news service.

108.   George Raine of The Examiner staff and Examiner news services contributed to this report.

109.   Gardiner told Reuters news service that the findings corroborate longstanding beliefs that music and math skills are linked.

110.   Global merged the unit with its other news services and renamed it Bridge News.