Yahoo Inc. will lean more heavily on Facebook's popularity as it tries to give people more reasons to stay on its Web site.

  The Associated Press is partnering with other international news organizations on an online hub where readers can interact with journalists covering the climate talks opening next week in Copenhagen.

  Shanda Online Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Chinese online gaming company Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd., said Tuesday that it named Jing Zhu as its chief technology officer.

  I can understand why people are so keen to find alien life. It isn't so much a scientific fascination with what might be out there.

  For General Electric Co., the NBC entertainment division was always an odd fit.

  The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.

  Antivirus software maker McAfee Inc. said Tuesday that it named eBay Inc.'s president of marketplaces, Lorrie Norrington, to its board.

  Software maker Intuit Inc. said Tuesday that it will sell Intuit Real Estate Solutions to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $128 million in cash.

  Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced.The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.

  We should have no qualms about confessing that issues pertaining to women are consigned to oblivion in our society. Often these issues are subjected to bigotry disguised as patriarchy.

  Michael Jackson's stunning death made him the Internet's biggest star this year.

  "Dan Anderson's Voltra is a great example of the kind of electric that's going to start light bulbs going off in the minds and loins of even the staunchest petrolheads. From any angle, this thing is absolutely stunning."

  For General Electric Co., the NBC entertainment division was always an odd fit.

  excerpt:"anishing employment opportunities and shrinking freelance compensation threaten to wipe out a substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists.