Cambridge, Mass. - Greentech Media, an online media company covering green technology news and analysis, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $2.75 million in its second round of venture capital, which was co-led by EGORA Holding and The Massachusetts Green Energy Fund.

London - A majority (56%) of senior newspaper executives said in a recent survey that they believe that the majority of news, be it print or online, will be free in the future -- up from 48% who said the same a year ago. Conducted by Zogby International for the World Editors Forum and Reuters, the survey of 704 newspaper executives worldwide also found 86% think newsrooms and digital services should become more integrated, while two in three believed that electronic media like computers and cell phones will be the most common means of news consumption within a decade.

New York - The Associated Press (AP), the New York-based news wire, on Monday debuted its Mobile News Network, a multimedia news portal targeted at wireless users, particularly those with Apple (NASD: AAPL) iPhones.

McLean, Va. - USAToday.com, the web site of USA Today, on Thursday launched an online flight community called "Today in the Sky."

San Diego - Eventful, a site that aggregates local event listings, said on Wednesday that it will provide a selection of regional events to The Guide, a new resource on live music, book signings, art galleries, restaurants and other activities offered by the Los Angeles Times. San Diego-based Eventful said The Times is among 1,200 companies using its API to create targeted event listing calendars.

San Jose, Calif. - CellSpin on Tuesday introduced its mobile application that allows users to post audio, video, photos and text on social media sites including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, Flickr and even live eBay auctions. The San Jose, Calif.-based company, which debuted its technology at DEMO Conference in January, said CellSpin currently works on over 300 mobile phone models, and supports Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry operating systems.

Atlanta - Cox Enterprises, the owner of a cable TV and broadband provider, newspapers, television and radio stations, announced on Tuesday that its Cox TMI unit will acquire Adify, a provider of vertical online advertising. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, PaidContent pegged the price tag at around $300 million, and reports that Adify saw revenues of $7 million last year and is expected to pull in $35 million in 2008.

Los Angeles - Gannett's USA Today said on Monday that it has partnered with Mediabase to provide music radio airplay charts in a new weekly feature, to run in the magazine's Life section and on its website every Tuesday. Mediabase monitors more than 1,800 radio stations in 180 U.S. and Canadian markets.

San Francisco - Twitter, the microblogging service that limits posts to 140 characters, has raised "either $15 million or $20 million" in new funding from undisclosed investors, a source familiar with the deal tells CNET News.com.

San Francisco - CNET Networks (NASD: CNET) is expected to announce a broad expansion of its editorial and advertising partnership with Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), sources from both companies told AllThingsD.com. Under the deal, CNET will become the major supplier of technology news and product reviews on Yahoo. Yahoo will also sell some CNET ad inventory, while CNET will sell ads on some areas of Yahoo.

Framingham, Mass. - TheStreet.com, a financial media company, announced on Thursday that it has made a strategic investment in Geezeo, a privately held provider of Web-based personal finance content and tools.

New York - Digital marketing firm 24/7 Real Media, a unit of WPP, announced on Monday that it has partnered with four major publishers to launch an online B2B advertising network. The BBN network will reach nearly 10 million monthly unique users, consisting of readers at over 200 Web properties from Cygnus Business Media, Nielsen Business Media, Reed Business Information and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

McLean, Va. - USA Today said on Monday that it has formed a multi-platform editorial content and marketing alliance with New York-based Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV), the developer of an online network of fantasy sports websites. Under the deal, FSV's Fantasy Players Network will distribute USA Today's sports content through its sites, while the company's fantasy sports experts will provide information to the paper.

San Francisco - Six Apart, the company behind blog publishing services TypePad, Movable Type and Vox, announced on Monday that it has acquired Apperceptive, a New York-based provider of social media consulting and development services.

Dallas - Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton this week signed a deal with ABC Radio Networks to host a twice-daily celebrity news radio feature that will be syndicated exclusively through ABC Radio Networks. The two-minute weekday feature will be broadcast by stations including WQHT (New York), KPWR (Los Angeles) and WBBM (Chicago) beginning on May 5. The deal was signed between ABC Radio and "C" Student Entertainment. Hilton also has a TV show, "What Perez Sez," on VH1.

New York - Internet revenue for The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) rose 14.8% in the last quarter, while the company's overall revenue decreased to $235.4 million, a 6.4% drop compared to the same period a year ago, the company announced.

Maynard, Mass. - Generate Inc., a developer of business intelligence software, has been acquired by News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Dow Jones & Co., the New York-based provider of global business news and information services.

Los Angeles - Notorious Sweden-based file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has launched an uncensored blogging service, after one of the service's founders saw a friend's blog removed from Wordpress for linking to copyrighted material, TorrentFreak reports. The Baywords service uses Wordpress as its blogging engine. "Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas," reads a note on Baywords.com. "We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don't break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it."