SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com search engine is the fourth-largest in the U.S., trailing offerings from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months....

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google is making it easier to socialize on its e-mail service. It's unveiling a new "Google Buzz" feature that sets up a face-off with Facebook....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a first for U.S. diplomacy, the State Department has used Twitter to announce an upcoming overseas trip by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....

ONLINE ADS: The latest earnings report from Barry Diller's Internet company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, indicates that the online advertising market is picking up....

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A new company is promising to lay 1,100 miles of fiber optic cable across Maine to help expand high speed Internet service to remote parts of the state....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving....

iTunes' top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Feb. 8, 2010:...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Google Inc. is shaving $200 off the fee that it charges customers of its new Nexus One phone to break a service contract with T-Mobile, as federal regulators continue to probe such fees and the rationale for them....

Rapture used to be a nice place to live. That is, if you didn't mind being at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. And putting up with the occasional rants of its megalomaniacal founder, Andrew Ryan....

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- In a story Feb. 8 about Atmel Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the average revenue forecast from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was $378.3 million. Analysts expected $338 million, while the company posted revenue of $343.6 million....

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Atmel Corp.'s loss widened in the fourth quarter as the chip designer wrote down the value of its business, but its sales rose and investors pushed up its stock price after hours Monday....

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- Trident Microsystems Inc. said Monday that its quarterly loss widened as the company took a big inventory write-off....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online....

CRACKING THE UNCRACKABLE: A former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has found a way to break into a type of chip that protects the most important secrets inside many personal computers....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use....

FRANKFURT (AP) -- The chief executive of German software company SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, has resigned after his contract was not renewed and will be succeeded by two co-CEOs, the company said Sunday....

NEW YORK (AP) -- After a weeklong absence, new copies of Andrew Young's "The Politician," Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and other books published by Macmillan are available for purchase on Amazon.com....