Yahoo: No Rest For American Weary

Seems like everybody in the States is wound up pretty tight these days thanks to impending economic troubles and continuing denial at the upper crust. The bad news gets worse: A wound-up America won't be unwinding this summer.

Google, Yahoo Partnering: What About Panama?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks an ad deal with rival and potential Microsoft ally, Yahoo, could work without incurring the wrath of antitrust investigators. Yahoo shareholders should be the wrathful ones.

eBay Setting Up Fair Trade Site

Some of eBay's more popular (and printable) nicknames include feeBay and greedBay.  But an upcoming move - the introduction of a fair trade site - may improve the company's image a little.

Searching For The American Idol

If Internet buzz is any indication of the future—and it's not, mind you, unless Ron Paul really will get the Republican nomination—David Cook is your next American Idol. According to search metrics and questionable phone measurements, Cook edged out David Archuleta by the slimmest margin in Idol history.