Microsoft and Yahoo in merger talks
After a months-long standoff, Microsoft and Yahoo are in active merger talks, a person involved in the discussions said Friday.
- Microsoft to move soon on Yahoo offer

Sun to cut 2,500 jobs
The maker of server computers posted a loss in the most recent quarter, surprising analysts, largely because of the downturn in the U.S. economy.

Finally, digital products flow from Kodak's labs
People who are more comfortable with binary code than molecules are wending their way up through Kodak's laboratories, and many of the company's new products are based on work Kodak began, but abandoned, years ago.

Amazon sues over N.Y. sales tax
Generally, only those companies that have a physical presence - like an office or store - in the state where the purchase is made are required to collect the tax.

Time Warner decides future is as content provider
After spinning off its cable unit, the company will revolve around two core content businesses that have been out of the limelight: the Warner Brothers movie studio and Turner Networks.
- Classic content through a modern pipeline

Cablevision to raise the stakes in Newsday bidding
The cable operator is preparing a $650 million offer for the Long Island newspaper, $70 million more than bids by Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman, according to people briefed on the matter.
- Panel says WSJ editor's ouster violated terms of deal

Hewlett-Packard unveils new memory technology
A device, called a memristor, is an electrical resistor with memory properties. The technology could eventually build very dense chips that go beyond DRAM and use much less power.
- Race is on to better use multicore computer chips

A free press gets mixed reviews
A survey of 20 countries by the World Public Opinion.org project at the University of Maryland found strong support worldwide for a free press and opposition to government restrictions on access to the Internet.

Video gamers keep spending despite downturn
Devotion to the hobby is driven by what users and executives acknowledge is games' addictive quality.

U.S. paper ends print edition to live online
With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when newspapers abandon their print versions. That day has arrived in Madison, Wisconsin.
- To whom does The Wall Street Journal belong?
- For magazines, 'be clever or die'
- The happy scavengers of online journalism

High hopes for English-language paper in Abu Dhabi
The move is another sign that while the newspaper industry slumps in the United States and Western Europe, it is booming in much of the rest of the world.
- Circulation declines at most U.S. newspapers
- Tough times at Le Monde