Whitman formally begins bid for Calif. governor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman is launching her bid for governor of California, promising to return a sense of optimism to the troubled state and saying she will "refuse to let California fail."

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Yahoo to spend $100M in bid for more brand buzz

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes a lot of its good work has been overlooked by investors and the media so it's spending more than $100 million to get the word out to consumers directly.

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NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor met Congress President Sonia Gandhi here today and is reported to have discussed his "cattle class" comment on the social network site Twitter.

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LONDON - Cost of space exploration doesn't always have to be out of this world, ask American students Oliver Yeh and Justin Lee who have taken images of the earth's surface using a camera bought on eBay, a weather balloon, a mobile phone, handwarmers and a drink cooler at a total cost of 90 pounds.

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Whitman to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman says she wants to cut state spending by another $15 billion and reduce the existing state work force by 17 percent.

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Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool in settlement

NEW YORK — Facebook is shutting down its much-maligned Beacon marketing program, launched nearly two years ago amid fanfare only to generate a storm of privacy complaints over the tracking of user activities at partner Web sites.

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Travel brands and deals on Twitter: Who to follow

NEW YORK — What are you looking for when you follow a travel brand on Twitter? News? Deals? Exclusive offers? And which Twitter travel feeds are the most popular?

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Facebook shuts down thorny marketing tool

NEW YORK — Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its five-year history.

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ComScore, Omniture join up to measure audiences

NEW YORK — Two of the largest companies involved in tracking and analyzing Web traffic are joining forces to measure digital audiences more comprehensively.

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Want to read all about it online? It may cost you

SAN FRANCISCO — With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions.

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