Topic - The Wall Street Journal

• Apple asks Amazon not to sell iPad in China

  Apple has asked online retailer Amazon.com to stop selling the iPad in China, according to a published report.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'It Was a Long Time Ago, And It Never Happened Anyway'

  Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by other peoples of the world, threw off the shackles of an authoritarian state that routinely persecuted, imprisoned and murdered its citizens by the millions.

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  KNIGHT: Paper-thin cover for liberal agenda

  Although I get a lot of news online, I love to read real newspapers. You can linger forever on a particular page without getting eye strain, or you can physically flip it with gusto to show your contempt for what some editor thought should be holding your interest.

• Detroit-area author Zaslow killed in car accident

  Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy road after promoting his latest book in northern Michigan. He was 53.

• Economy Briefs

  Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.

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  RAHN: Intellectual and policy corruption

  Government corruption can take many forms. Last week, most of those forms could be seen in the actions of the Obama administration - everything from government officials taking simple bribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay off political supporters, to using government prosecutors to punish enemies, to failing to fulfill its fiduciary duty to citizens by not performing cost-benefit analyses before taking actions.

• AOL's Huff Post to launch live streaming network

  AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.

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  World Trade Center design flaw could cost millions

  The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower.

• Microsoft slams Google user data policy in new ads

  Microsoft Corp. slammed search rival Google Inc. with full-page newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to internally merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers.

• PRUDEN: When the Earth refuses to warm

  Global warming: Been there, done that. Forward-looking folks are adjusting their fretting machinery now to something called Cycle 25. Button up your overcoats. Ice is on the way.

• American Scene

  A Los Angeles elementary school teacher was charged with committing lewd acts against nearly two dozen students after a film processor gave authorities bondage-style photographs showing children in blindfolds with their mouths taped, and some with cockroaches on their faces, authorities said Tuesday.

• Internet to get a lot more entertaining

  After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web suddenly are flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.

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  Congress trying to police itself on insider trading

  Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.

• Facebook IPO could value it among top companies

  When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

• Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week

  Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report.

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