The End-User: In media, we distrust
Asked to rank their level of trust in a dozen industries ranging from insurance to health care, respondents around the world invariably put media and entertainment dead last, according to Edelman, the U.S. public relations and consulting company.

New York Times shareholders withhold 42 percent of board vote
The votes withheld represented more than half the investors who are not part of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, and they gave voice to a growing displeasure with the company's management and financial performance.

AT&T earnings beat Wall Street estimates
But some investors and telecommunications industry analysts said they were not sure AT&T could continue the pace, particularly with growth slowing in the mobile phone business.

New BenQ strategy: Make parts for others
The Taiwanese maker of computing devices Wednesday announced its sixth straight quarterly loss and slammed its strategy into reverse, renaming itself Jia Da.

EU sets 2nd meeting to press for roaming-fee limits
But participants at the three-hour meeting in Strasbourg said they were still confident of resolving the dispute before summer.

Court allows Vonage to keep signing up customers
The U.S. appeals court also set a June court date to hear the Internet phone company's appeal in a bitter patent suit with Verizon.

Kleiner Perkins opening offices in Shanghai and Beijing
The move, underscoring U.S. venture capitalists' interest in China, marks the first time the technology investment firm has had partners working out of an overseas office.

Yahoo's China unit is ordered to pay music companies for copyright violations
A Beijing court said the Web site must delete links to 229 songs on nonaffiliated sites and pay 210,000 yuan to music companies.

A commercial radio station in Texas, KZPS, is getting rid of the ads
Facing increasing competition from satellite radio and iPods, Clear Channel Communications is trying something radically different at a commercial radio station in Dallas.

Microsoft defends royalties in bid to avoid EU fine
The company filed documents with competition officials in an effort to avoid another multimillion-euro fine in its antitrust battle with the European Commission.