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Amazon.com Inc. will use Bill Me Later's payment services to let customers buy books and electronics without using a credit card. The Seattle-based retailer has made an investment in Bill Me Later, the companies said Tuesday.Total financing for Xerou...

With its shareholders mad, Yahoo has unsuccessfully tried to persuade Microsoft to revive its bid for the entire company at $33 a share. The impasse has deepened the animosity between the two companies, with Yahoo denigrating its suitor as "unrespons...

The Fox Business network and The Wall Street Journal, two siblings in the News Corp. family, are contractually restricted in what resources they can share. But they have taken another step toward family unity by announcing that the personal technolog...

Players from eighteen countries will descend on Disney World for the 6th Domino World Championship.

news analysis A big audience doesn't automatically mean big profits. That's the lesson YouTube and Google are learning the hard way, according to a story published Tuesday evening by The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper's Web site reported that ...

Last week Manhattan district judge Louis L. Stanton filed his opinion in the $1B copyright infringement lawsuit Viacom (VIA) first lodged against Google (GOOG) back in March 2007.Judge Stanton's decision has already been met with a torrent of cr...

In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.

A judge ordered YouTube to provide Viacom with records of every video you and everyone else ever watched on the Google subsidiary site, plus when you watched it and how many times. This doesn't bode well for anyone's privacy.

After NBC Sports announcer Johnny Miller suggested golfer Rocco Mediate had a name fit for cleaning pools, A. Kenneth Ciongoli of the National Italian-American Foundation asks why his ethnic group is the last fair target for bias.

The creator of a new Website says its database can predict books you'll enjoy reading. Just type in your favorite and the site's algorithms will scan for others with a similar level of action, amount of description, dialog, tense and perspective.