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(Reuters) - EBay Inc will institute a global ban on the sale of all types of ivory products by January 1, 2009, after a conservation group investigation found more than 4,000 elephant ivory listings on the online auction site.

CNET - Yahoo and Google have extended the Wednesday deadline for antitrust regulators to issue a decision on whether to block the controversial search advertising deal to proceed, according to a source familiar with the talks.

CEOs are hoping advances in Australia's laggard broadband infrastructure will lead to an increase in financial activity.

Access has been limited to the Ohio Secretary of State's Web site after a security breach was discovered.

Google.org announces $14.8 million in grants aimed at preventing disease outbreaks in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Google's CEO is wrong to play politics with the company's brand -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt should have left his corporate logo behind when stumping for Obama. Audacity: free general-purpose sound-editing tool -- A colleague needed a simple tool for editing audio. Audacity fit the bill. Yeti footprints found by (alleged) scientist -- Yeti's footprints were all that was captured by a seven-man, 42-day expedition in Nepal. Identify mystery startup apps in XP and Vista -- Unless you built your PC yourself, there are probably a bunch of programs installed on your system that start with Windows, though what they do--and whether they really need to start with Windows--is anybody's guess.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man accused of placing songs on the internet from an unreleased album by the rock band Guns N' Roses pleaded innocent on Monday in federal court.

The Deal reports that the search-ad partnership is falling victim to antitrust obstacles. Yahoo and Google say discussions continue, though.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.