EBay cutting 10 percent of work force
The company also said it would purchase the online payment service Bill Me Later and two classified ad Web sites in Denmark.

Resistance to Google-Yahoo advertising deal grows
Some of the leading advertising agencies and industry associations that have come out against the deal are worried that prices will rise.

Small name in televisions has big plans
Buoyed by success in American stores, Vizio has dreams of worldwide expansion. But it is vulnerable to price cuts from bigger, better-known competitors.

Has the crisis taken a toll on Brand Wall Street abroad?
While the image of America has taken a beating overseas in recent years, largely because of an unpopular foreign policy, Wall Street has remained an emblem of economic might. But that was before the meltdown.

Can't open your Gmail? Good luck
Google doesn't offer live customer support for people locked out of their Gmail accounts.

European standoff over search engine data
For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with American Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information gleaned from the Web.

Slowly, iPhone is winning over business people
Apple added business features to the iPhone that mimic some functions in Research In Motion's BlackBerry, which occupies more than half the market for e-mail phones in the United States.

How green was the Valley
Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers reduce our dependence on oil, help stop global warming and make a lot of money at the same time?

Credit crisis spreads a pall over Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs, investors and executives now believe the question is when, not if, the United States' cradle of innovation will be hurt.

Magazines get clever with their advertising
New U.S. marketing campaigns from The Economist and The Atlantic go a step further in trying to attract thoughtful readers' attention.

Chinese monitors track Internet messages
Researchers in Toronto find huge surveillance system tracking and archiving Skype conversations in China.