U.S. Web site that posts leaked material ordered shut
The closing of Wikileaks.org, which invites people to post confidential material, presents a First Amendment test.

Strong order book lifts profit at Hewlett-Packard
The world's largest personal-computer maker, posted a fiscal first-quarter profit Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates on strong sales of PCs, servers and storage. The stock gained after the company raised annual profit targets.

Thomson wins regulatory approval to buy Reuters
The companies said Tuesday that they expected to complete the £8.7 billion deal by April 13 and that they would seek shareholder and court approval for business divestments required by the EU.

Publisher at Los Angeles Times gets no benefit of the doubt
With the company scraping to meet heavy debt payments, the publisher, David Hiller faces the daunting task of showing his new bosses that he can turn around a paper hit by an industrywide contraction, a California real estate slump and internal dissension.

Smugglers and friends help Chinese connect with iPhone
For months, tourists, entrepreneurs and smugglers of electronic goods have been purchasing iPhones in the United States and then shipping them overseas, back to where they are made, but not officially sold.

BBC ends shortwave service in Europe
Its audience dwindling as listeners migrate to new technologies, the BBC quietly pulled the plug on a medium it introduced in Europe with great fanfare 75 years ago.

TrialPay makes it hard to resist the deal
The referral service has gained a following among online businesses and investors as an intermediary between online shopper and merchant. Its method is a twist on the long-standing practice in which merchants offer bounties to Web sites that deliver paying customers.

Silicon Valley is fast losing middle-class work force, report says
The consequence of the shift may undercut some of the basic mechanisms of the Valley economy, according to the authors of the report, by making upward mobility more difficult.

BlackBerry maker and Motorola accuse each other of patent infringement
Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry mobile device, and Motorola have sued each other over what they say are patent infringements for technology used in their mobile phones.

Traffic jam slows down 3G wireless communications
Operators are being forced to invest more to soup up their networks and unclog the data bottlenecks caused by the high-volume Internet surfing and streaming video.

Software AG on its way to recovery
Under Karl-Heinz Streibich, the German company's takeover of WebMethods secured its place in a consolidating market.

Ahead for Yahoo and Microsoft: Clashing cultures
If Microsoft succeeds in its conquest of Yahoo, it faces another challenge of merging two very different corporate cultures.

A Silicon Valley start-up says it can predict others' fate
Is a start-up worthy of investment? Ask the venture investor in a box created by two Oxford University students
- Middle-class eroding in Silicon Valley

Tragedy strikes campus, and college paper leads coverage
Being close to the scene of big news like deadly rampages - as at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech - has its advantages, but also poses challenges.

Language lessons could be just a click away
The best way to learn a foreign language may be to surround yourself with native speakers. But if you cannot manage a trip abroad, the Internet and a broadband computer connection may do the job, too.

Providers get a piece of ad income
Selling Internet access has been a decent business, but selling Web advertising is an even better one.