Amazon doubles profits and offers fuzzy forecast
The e-commerce giant posted strong earnings amid a tough economic climate but cut its projected fourth-quarter revenues.

World Weekly News moves online
The offbeat tabloid, which stopped printing last year, has been sold and the new owner has revived it online.

With sales stalled, Yahoo to cut work force by 10%
Yahoo said Tuesday that it would lay off at least 10 percent of its 15,000 workers as it tries to bring down its expenses.

France to allocate broadcast spectrum for mobile services
If a Europewide network were to come to fruition, its greater scale would likely push down the cost of Internet services to consumers, especially in rural areas not reached by fast, fixed-line networks.

In Hollywood, the Wall Street villain returns
Suddenly, across Hollywood, the stock market is not such a sexy subject anymore, at least not in a yearning sense.

Start-ups test dot-com business models
Start-up companies like Twitter face dilemma on the road to success: adopting business model to be cash-flow positive or keeping focus on the technology, not the money.

Beware the digital zombies
Botnets remain an Internet scourge, and active zombie networks created by a growing criminal underground peaked last month at more than half a million computers.

Credit squeeze adds to Sprint's challenges
Dan Hesse, the chief executive of Sprint Nextel, has been trying to turn his beleaguered company around. In some areas, he is making progress.

Chip orders are quickly slowing, Texas Instruments says
Texas Instruments, which makes chips for cellphones and other devices, warned that orders were slowing rapidly and said it would cut jobs to save money.

Sun reports a loss amid slowing demand
Sun Microsystems, the server and software maker, swung to a loss in its first quarter, dragging the results below Wall Street's forecast.

France looks to save its newspapers
In an effort to find ways to revitalize the industry, President Nicolas Sarkozy gathered more than 140 media experts this month to begin a three-month, government sponsored study of the written press, to look for ways to revitalize the French Fourth Estate.

U.S. spending on gadgets is projected to grow at a slower rate
The Consumer Electronics Association found a drop in the percentage of U.S. consumers expressing an intention to buy video games, cameras, music players and laptops.