PRESS DIGEST - New York Times business news - July 13

July 13 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in the New York Times business pages on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

* Wall Street is buzzing that Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), which only recently paid back its bailout money, earned more than $2 billion in the March-June period.

* Swiss bank UBS AG (UBSN.VX) and United States federal prosecutors sought on Sunday to delay a hearing scheduled for Monday so the two sides could try to settle their closely watched dispute over the release of names of wealthy American clients of the bank who are suspected of offshore tax evasion.

* As consumers cut spending, Japan's robots, the world's largest fleet of mechanized workers, are falling still.

* Rising unemployment has cut across all groups, but economists said they were uncertain why the racial difference was so much starker in New York City.

* The political news Web site Talking Points Memo this weekend completed a round of investment, of $500,000 to $1 million. The move is intended to increase the number of employees, to roughly 20, from the current 11, in the next 10 months.

* The San Francisco Chronicle stopped printing last week, which means, oddly enough, a better printed Chronicle. Which, the paper hopes, is one answer to competition from the Internet.

* Bing, the new Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) search engine, captured slightly more United States searches than Yahoo (YHOO.O) in the first eight days of June, according to StatCounter Global Stats, a firm that tracks Web use. That is a milestone for Bing, whose share of the search pie has been slowly rising since it was unveiled on June 3.