Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said Tuesday.

In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the Wal-Mart and Amazon.com are waging an online price war that is spreading through product areas like books, movies, toys and electronics, the New York Times reports.

Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday.

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.

It's easy to get caught up in the hype surrounding Black Friday, but to truly get the best deals, keep these retail secrets in mind.

With frugal being the height of fashion, consumers are being increasingly sophisticated in how they hunt for deals.

Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with desperation during the downturn. But a new breed of products is tackling the trickier matter of preventing identity theft, says the New York TImes.

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.

Chinese Internet game operator NetEase.com reported higher third-quarter earnings and revenues on Wednesday, but missed Wall Street estimates.

U.S. department store operator J.C. Penney said on Wednesday it will stop publishing its twice-yearly "big book" catalogs as consumers increasingly turn to online shopping.

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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.

"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.

Sina Corp, China's largest Web portal, posted a decline in quarterly sales and profit but beat Wall Street estimates as a recovering economy boosted consumer spending and advertising
sentiment.