Reuters - The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday it had launched a tendering process for mainland China for the sale of internet and mobile phone platform rights for next year's Beijing Olympics.

Reuters - Borders Group Inc. on Thursday plans to announce its intention to reopen its own branded e-commerce Web site in early 2008, ending an alliance with Amazon.com Inc. that had been the core of its online strategy, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. has named a senior executive to lead the company's efforts to combat click fraud in its Web search advertising business, the company said on Wednesday, in a bid to reassure advertisers.

AP - A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced the former chief financial officer of scandal-tainted dot-com company Livedoor to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings reports.

Reuters - Ten months before the first 2008 U.S. presidential primary, a video war has erupted between supporters of Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, their opening skirmish on the new campaign battleground -- the Internet.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it found no evidence of a security breach on Bungie.net or its Xbox Live online video game network following reports of fraudulent behavior and theft.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it is combining its search and advertising development teams, highlighting the importance of those services as the software giant struggles to compete with Web search leader Google Inc.