Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson has resigned from Google's board amid an FTC inquiry into overlapping directorships. He is also an Apple director.

  Videogame publishers, pushing to expand their businesses, are making games that target girls and women.

  Intel's status as one of the market's brightest stars might be numbered, but it likely won't become too dim.

  Obama has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 billion in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints from businesses.

  J.P. Morgan tapped Kurt Simon to jointly run its tech team as it gears up for an anticipated flurry of deals.

  SanDisk is delivering a long-awaited technology advance for chips known as flash memory, adding to developments that are helping makers of the widely used components boost their bottom lines.

  Tata Consultancy Services plans to more than quadruple its workorce in China over the next five years to tap rising demand for outsourcing services in mainland China.

  Perot Systems purchased the China operations of management consulting firm BearingPoint, a deal that would further Dell's expansion in technology services with its own acquisition of Perot.

  Microsoft said a technical snafu has likely caused the loss of personal data for users of the T-Mobile Sidekick, for which it supplies software and online services.

  The bickering between India's billionaire Ambani brothers and their Reliance companies took yet another twist Sunday when the younger brother, Anil, asked for divine help to solve what court cases and a nasty publicity campaign have failed to fix.

  BSkyB plans to offer a subscription-only online music service in the U.K. market.

  Philips posted an unexpected net profit for the third quarter, as lower sales were partly offset by cost savings and a one-time gain.

  Some big marketers have fallen victim to scams in which online display ads that seem to have been placed on legitimate Web sites aren't visible to consumers who visit those sites.

  Google might have some good news to tell investors when it reports earnings this week, and traders who think the stock could move higher as a result can buy options to take advantage of the situation.