YouTube says Warner Music videos back in months

YouTube said Tuesday that music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the video site in the coming months after a nine-month dispute over splitting ad revenue.

Most of the catalog of videos from artists such as Madonna, Metallica and Green Day will be available for free viewing by the end of [...]

Microsoft says no plans to buy Electronic Arts

Microsoft Corp has no plans to acquire Electronic Arts, a Microsoft executive said, shooting down unsubstantiated talk of a potential bid that triggered a spike in the video game publisher’s shares.

“We have no plans to acquire EA,” Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. “They remain [...]

Thief caught after stopping to check Facebook

A 19 year old Pennsylvanian man has been arrested after stopping to check his account on social networking website Facebook whilst burgling a house, and then forgetting to log out again. According to The Journal of West Virginia, Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, PA, is alleged to have stolen two diamond [...]

Twitter valued at $1B

Twitter Inc.’s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent.

That was the message underlying Friday’s news that Twitter has lined up $100 million to finance its operations while founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone plot ways to make money off one of the Internet’s most popular [...]

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Muhozi, an endangered Ugandan mountain gorilla, is appearing online as part of a fundraising program the Ugandan Wildlife Authority launched Saturday to help save the species.

Around 340 mountain gorillas — nearly half of the 740 remaining worldwide — live in Uganda’s lush Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and 40 more live in another Ugandan reserve. [...]