TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TimesLink Moving to the World Wide Web: In a move that reflects the changes in the on-line marketplace, the Los Angeles Times said it will move its TimesLink electronic information service to the Internet’s World Wide Web in early 1996. TimesLink, which provides news and other information to personal computer users, is currently carried exclusively on the Prodigy network. “In the rapidly evolving on-line world, it is important to go where the customers--both users and advertisers--are going,” said Richard T. Schlosberg III, publisher and chief executive of The Times. The move to the Web will result in the elimination of 22 positions; full-time employees will be offered jobs elsewhere at The Times. Times Mirror executives said the staff reductions reflect the higher efficiency of producing a service for the Web, which has flexible and open standards. TimesLink, which was launched in October, 1994, has 21,000 subscribers.