New York Times closes R&D Ventures

That's interesting...they just recently launched their "Timespace" startup incubator...which I assume was part of R&D ventures? A year seems pretty short for a venture into venture funding.

Background here: http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/26/inside-timespace-the-new-yo...

edit:

Another link here, to their Early Stage Investments:

http://www.nytco.com/early-stage-investments/

Not sure if it's the same thing as the R&D Ventures group though...in fact, it probably isn't, as the R&D Ventures (from what I can tell) began last summer, and NYT's investments listed above pre-date that.

Also, nearly all of the early-stage-investments are media/information companies, whereas R&D ventures seemed to have a different focus?

And just a few days back Arthur Sulzberger was saying if there was one thing he could do differently in the past, it would be to "hire more engineers".

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/10/the-newsonomics-of-little-d...