Dassault brings 3-D modeling to the masses
With a new division called 3DVia, the company is targeting ordinary consumers as future clients of its complex software.

Yahoo executives defend company's role in arrest of Chinese journalist
Two top Yahoo officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from U.S. lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive communist regime.

Founder Technology of China signs deal with Microsoft on Windows
The maker of personal computers in China has agreed to pre-equip nearly all its consumer PCs and 40 percent of its business computers with Microsoft software in an effort to combat piracy.

Telekom to announce sale of broadcast unit
One of two private equity firms will win the bidding for the unit and pay between €800 million and €900 million.

U.S. campaigns turn to the Internet
For all the promise of the Web to allow sophisticated microtargeting of messages, it remains to many campaigns a bit of a Wild West to candidates.

Corruption scandal snowballs at Samsung Group in South Korea
Prosecutors opened a formal investigation into allegations that the Samsung chairman had masterminded an extensive scheme of bribery and illegal transactions.

Media outlets in Australia threaten boycott of cricket matches
A contract by Cricket Australia drawing stricter rules for media outlets over concern for intellectual property rights has prompted the affected newspaper group and wire services to say they will not cover matches if they cannot reach an agreement with the sport's governing body.

Hollywood writers take their case to the streets
Members of Writers Guild East, which went on strike just after midnight, set up a picket at Rockefeller Center in New York and chanted: "No money? No downloads. No downloads? No peace."

Armani may seek investors
The Italian designer Giorgio Armani said Tuesday that he was open to a tie-up with a wealthy "fashion lover" or another investor, and that he had received an offer from Beiersdorf, the German maker of Nivea cosmetics, two years ago, adding to merger talk amid a flurry of deals in the fashion world.

Google introduces software for mobile phones
The company is offering the system free to an alliance of mobile phone makers and seeks to cash in by selling advertisements that appear before users.
- I, robot: The man behind the Google phone

Louis Vuitton ad shows Gorbachev and subversive text
In the ad, Gorbachev is in a limousine passing a remaining part of the Berlin Wall, an open Louis Vuitton bag beside him. Poking out of the bag is a publication with a mysterious headline referring to Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB spy who died last November after being poisoned.