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Google now allows ads linked to abortion from religious groups, having reached a settlement with the Christian Institute.

Google in shift on 'abortion' as keyword

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

After a lawsuit from a Christian anti-abortion group, Google is now allowing religious organizations to take out ads using the keyword "abortion."

Taking the next step to rein in European mobile phone industry

By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN

This week, the EU's telcommunications chief, will ask the European Parliament to extend roaming caps to mobile data and text messaging.

Trash that talks

ON ADVERTISING

Sponsors feeling credit squeeze

By ERIC PFANNER

Manchester United's suddenly closer link to the U.S. government is not the only potentially awkward marketing situation to arise from the financial turmoil.

Why the Google-Yahoo ad deal is nothing to fear

Trash that talks

By ERIC SYLVERS

In Italy, a system allows garbage bins to 'tell' trucks whether to stop.

A new kind of venture capitalist makes small bets on young firms

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Union Square Ventures focuses on services that use the Web to change a market rather than simply make it more efficient.

DIGITAL DOMAIN

Why the Google-Yahoo ad deal is nothing to fear

By RANDALL STROSS

Google does not set the prices of the search advertising market; its advertisers do. With auction pricing, even a major player can't control the market.

PING

Technology doesn't dumb us down

By DAMON DARLIN

Over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.

Brin, of Google, predisposed to Parkinson's

By MIGUEL HELFT

Sergey Brin, who made the announcement on a blog, says he does not have the disease and that the exact implications of the discovery are not clear.

Google won't delay alliance with Yahoo

Oracle earnings beat expectations

But the company's weakening guidance for new software license sales may tell a different story.

Japan trade commission rules against Microsoft

Bloomberg News

The Fair Trade Commission told Microsoft to void clauses it has with Japanese PC makers that blocked them from taking legal action over patents involving the Windows operating system.

New group claims leadership of SAG

The shake-up could dislodge the logjam in contract talks between the Screen Actors Guild with the movie studios.

Palm's first-quarter loss widens, even as sales rise

Bloomberg News

Palm reported a fifth straight quarterly loss on Thursday after sales of its Treo and Centro smart phones fell further behind Research In Motion's BlackBerry. The shares fell 7.2 percent in extended trading.

Silicon Alley to Wall Street: Send us your resumés

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

After years of seeing technical talent lured to Wall Street by fatter paychecks and big bonuses, East Coast start-ups are offering jobs and some stability to those displaced by the financial crisis.

Yahoo moves ahead with new home page

Reuters

The most heavily visited site on the Web is getting a radical redesign that gives users a personalized view of the wider Web.

Microsoft moves to wrest its story from Apple

By STUART ELLIOTT

The next phase in a new marketing campaign is an audacious embrace of the disdainful label that Apple has gleefully - and successfully - affixed onto users of Microsoft products: "I'm a PC."

REVIEW

New features and new directions, for iPod and Zune

By DAVID POGUE

Both Apple and Microsoft have introduced new versions of their music players for the coming holiday season, but while Apple has fine-tuned its existing lineup, Microsoft has created new features that aim to appeal to hard-core music lovers.