EBay Inc said on Friday that private investors looking to buy Skype had agreed to settle litigation with Skype's founders, who will get a 14-percent stake in the Internet phone service in the transaction.

Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organisation as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.

United Online Inc, which provides consumer products and services over the internet, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by strong demand at its FTD segment.

Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise "serious new challenges" for financial regulators, the head of the largest U.S. independent securities regulator said on Tuesday.

After months of industry hype, Hollywood on Tuesday rolls out the red carpet for Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" showing the final performance of the fallen King of Pop.

Barry Diller may be about to hang a 'for sale' on Ask.com, saying on Tuesday that his search advertising business could be open to a takeover given the competition it faces from Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.

Wall Street analysts on Tuesday cut their price targets on Baidu Inc, after China's dominant search engine forecast a sequential decline in fourth-quarter revenue due to the transition to a new Internet advertising technology.

Britain will damage its economy if it does not follow France and clamp down on Internet piracy, the boss of entertainment and telecoms group Vivendi said on Tuesday.

Tweeters are being invited to submit questions for the spirits of departed celebrities including Michael Jackson and William Shakespeare as part of the world's first Twitter seance.

China's leading Internet search company Baidu Inc warned that the transition to a new advertising technology would crimp revenue in the current quarter, sending shares plunging 11 percent.

Companies trying to market products to mothers need to head onto the Internet with a survey showing the 21st century mother is online daily, using Facebook to connect to friends and Google to diagnose illnesses.

Revenue from China's online game market grew 39.5 percent in the second quarter from the previous year to 6.18 billion yuan ($906 million), according to data from research firm Analysys International on Tuesday.

British pay-TV giant BSkyB, a broadcaster 39%-owned by Murdoch's News Corporation and chaired by his son James Murdoch, said on Monday that it was launching Sky Songs, a digital music service to challenge Apple's iTunes in the music downloads business.

A British "UFO eccentric," wanted in the United States for breaking into NASA and Pentagon computers in "the biggest military hack of all time," lost his latest battle to avoid extradition on Friday.

Activision is planning a Guitar Hero application for the iPhone and exclusive tracks specifically for new video games Band Hero and DJ Hero, Telegraph reported on Monday.

The U.S. government and the body in charge of assigning Internet addresses signed an agreement on Wednesday that allows for greater global participation in the Internet domain name process.

Cyber criminals are increasingly focusing their attacks on the hundreds of millions of users of social networks and on loopholes in bank security systems, security software vendors said on Wednesday.

German police said Wednesday they had broken up an international child pornography network that exchanged pedophile images on the Internet and sexually abused children.

Nearly half of all the photographs Europeans take end up online, according to a survey, with Russians the keenest on taking snaps of themselves, just ahead of the Austrians.