
Google Inc. plans to hire more than 6,200 workers this year _ boosting its work force by at least a quarter _ in the biggest expansion yet by the Internet's most profitable company.

Social networking behemoth Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, The New York Times reported.
The fallout from a hacking attack on Gawker Media Inc. a week ago underscores a basic security risk of living more of our lives online: Using the same username and password for multiple sites is convenient, but costly.
Yahoo Inc. expects to report $33 million to $38 million in charges related to layoffs it announced earlier this week, the company said in a regulatory filing.
The content-sharing site Delicious may not be on Yahoo Inc.'s shrinking menu of online services much longer.

A published report says AOL Inc. is considering breaking itself up and then combining its content division with Yahoo Inc.
It took a man-made disaster to topple a celebrity from the top spot on Yahoo Inc.'s annual list of most popular search requests.

European regulators are tackling a puzzle that could shift the balance of power on the Internet: Is Google stifling competition by juicing its search results to favor its services over its rivals?

Yahoo Inc. is hopping on the bargain-hunting bandwagon with Groupon, the Internet's hottest discount broker, and more than a dozen other similar services.