In Brief

Atex named Marty Windsor marketing manager for the Americas and Keegan Skidmore global marketing communications analyst.

The Wall Street Journal launched a new career site, FINS.com, a standalone online resource specifically targeting financial professionals and the finance market. The site covers all major financial sectors with associated jobs and news, in-depth research on companies, and daily columns offering advice and career insight, WSJ said.

The Daily News Transcript in Dedham, Mass., will reduce its frequency from five days a week to one, effective Oct. 1, according to The Boston Globe. The Daily News Transcript has a readership of about 3,200 and is owned by GateHouse Media Inc.

Tribune Co. will shift TV book sales operations from one of its divisions to competitor Advantage Newspaper Consultants under terms of a three-year contract. A bankruptcy judge is expected to approve the deal later this month.

U.K. newspaper printer Newsprinters Knowsley was presented the Newspaper Printer of the Year award at the 2009 Newspaper Awards ceremony, held earlier this spring. The printer was cited for its work producing The (London) Times Literary Supplement. It also snared recognition for production of The Times and The Sunday Times. The papers are all printed on a 25-satellite tower manroland Colorman XXL press.

Q.I. Press Controls said it signed an agreement with Baldwin Technology to market its line of press control equipment in Japan.
www.qipc.com
www.baldwintech.com

Digital Technology International released DTI Financials for its Cloud computing environment. The financial app is the newest addition to DTI’s line of products available in its hosted software offering, including DTI Circulation, DTI AudienceReach, DTI Advertising and DTI ContentPublisher.
DTI also released the latest version of AudienceReach, adding support for targeted e-mail marketing.
www.dtint.com

Local businesses account for almost 20 percent of ads placed on social networking sites, according to research firm Borrell Associates. The firm said local companies will spend $641 million — out of a total ad spend of $3.26 billion — to buy ads on the leading 118 social networking sites.
www.borrellassociates.com