Microsoft Corp  has had talks with News Corp  about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google , a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

eBay Inc said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day.

U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves."

AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of its planned spin-off from Time Warner.

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With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are tricking consumers into signing up for subscription services they don't want.

Like contributors to Wikipedia before them, volunteers are democratizing online map creation -- a field that used to be the exclusive domain of professionals and specialists. And the information they gather is becoming increasingly valuable commercially. The New York Times reports.

Time Warner says it will spin off its Internet business, AOL, as a separate company on December 9th.  Time Warner Inc.  said Thursday it has declared a dividend on the AOL shares it owns that will result in a complete separation of the two companies.

Intel said it has approved a 12.75 percent increase in its quarterly dividend beginning in the first quarter of 2010.

Intel has agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion to settle a longstanding dispute between the two companies.

In 2005, China administered a spelling test that asked respondents to spell "Google" for a search market report: only 60 percent took the test and more than 20 percent got it wrong.  Four years later, Google, whose whimsical name is synonymous with Internet search in much of the world, is still struggling for recognition in China, the world's largest Internet market by users where local rival Baidu dominates.

Yahoo is done with its cost-cutting program and now hiring, Chief Executive Carol Bartz told CNBC Tuesday.

Millionaires down on their luck now have an auction site to sell their mega-yachts, super-cars and family jewels without having to resort to the pawn shop.

Google is acquiring mobile advertising company AdMob for $750 million, furthering the company's push into the fast-growing market of Web-enabled cell phones.

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.