NYTimes.com recently launched a newly redesigned business section at www.nytimes.com/business. The section is powered by MarketWatch.com Inc., an Internet financial news and information provider, and includes new portfolio tools and enhanced stock research functionality. Additionally, NYTimes.com headlines and stories will be displayed on the CBSMarket-Watch.com consumer destination site and MarketWatch.com headlines and stories will be displayed on the NYTimes.com Web site.

ES Millennium is offering a training site geared toward newsprint and commercial printers at traintheprinter.com. The environmental safety and training site offers the following courses: General Safety Overview, Fire Extinguisher Safety, Hazard Communication, Lockout/Tagout and Electrical Safety, and DOT Hazardous Materials. Anyone can access any of the Train the Printer courses for $8 per module. Courses are currently offered in English and the company hopes to have full Spanish versions available this month.

SaxoTech and InfiNet recently entered into a new channel sales and marketing agreement in which InfiNet will offer SaxoTech’s Publicus Web publishing system to its existing and potential online newspaper and publishing affiliate customers. SaxoTech, in turn, is offering InfiNet’s application hosting and support services to current and future Publicus customers.

InfiNet also recently announced it will expand its online solutions to include Web studio from Cytura. s

Cytura (www.cytura.com) provides XML-based content management and personalization-driven portal framework that enable global organizations to syndicate personalized Web services and content.

Applications and service provider Waveshift Inc. announced that the Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St.Paul signed a licensing agreement for SportsHuddle.

“SportsHuddle helps newspapers enhanced their high school sports coverage in print and online. Our new editorial features save the newspaper money by reducing staff time while increasing content including fan pages for individual teams and players,” said Andy Beal, chief executive officer of Waveshift.

Waveshift’s products include YourTown, MyCalendar, SportsHuddle, Webforums and Upickem.

Dow Jones Newswires launched an enhanced version of its subscription Web site for Internet customers around the world at dowjonesnews.com. The site is password-protected and carries the full Dow Jones Newswires content, traditionally only available via dealing room terminals. The site also features redesigned graphics and new tools and content.

KnightRidder.com has changed its name to Knight Ridder Digital to more accurately identify its services. The company said the new name better reflects its focus on online publishing and Internet advertising, as well as initiatives in interactive information, technology infrastructure development, wireless applications and content syndication deployment.

On the Mark Media, the specialty publications division of Tribune Media Services, and CityXpress.com Corp. entered into an agreement to jointly offer On the Mark Media’s print Easy Special Sections and CityXpress’ online Xpress Special Sections. The agreement will allow On the Mark Media (www.onthemarkmedia.com) to offer online sections and CityXpress to update its Xpress Special Sections daily with articles from Easy Special Sections, as well as offer the print product to newspaper customers.

The International Herald Tribune announced an agreement with NewStand Inc. in which NewsStand will serve as the digital circulation service for the newspaper.

NewsStand will enable the International Herald Tribune to offer digital versions of the paper in the same format as the printed version to global audiences by way of the Internet. Readers will be able to purchase and download copies of the publication from their personal computers.

SageMetrics, www.SageMetrics.com, business intelligence service provider for online and offline data analysis, has extended its client relationship with washingtonpost.com for two years.

SageMetric’s SageAnalyst Pro will enable washingtonpost.com to create further efficiencies in its online business decisions by providing ongoing data collection, management and analysis for the site and thus allowing it to intelligently track and study growing readership.

The Los Angeles Times has taken Quick Fix, its popular recipe column, to the Web via an online video version available at www.latimes.com/quickfix.

Quick Fix is the first food column from the L.A. Times to be made into a multimedia feature, and makes the newspaper one of the few in the United States now offering an online video recipe series.

Canadian sports Web site, WayMoreSports.com, has teamed up with Dallas-based Videoaxs to bring hockey fans free National Hockey League video highlights from every game in the 2001/2002 season including the playoffs. Beginning Oct. 4 fans logging onto WayMoreSports.com can access streaming video highlights called NHL Instant Repl@ys from any of the previous nights games.

The Sun in Bremerton, Wash., has become the first E.W. Scripps Co. newspaper to launch a special section from CityXpress.com Corp. The Sun’s online presence www.thesunlink.com launched the Home & Garden special section in late August.

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Co., and Knight Ridder Digital announced that Factiva will begin including online content from 29 Knight Ridder newspapers as part of its global news and business information offering.

Through Knight Ridder Digital, full-text, daily publications from media markets around the country and from state capitals and regional centers, will be available on the day of publication to Factiva customers through Dow Jones Interactive and all other Factiva products.