AP - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that gave the company's recently slumping shares an immediate boost.

Macworld.com - New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing Web site operator Gratis Internet Inc. for allegedly violating consumer confidentiality agreements by selling millions of consumers’ personal information to e-mail marketers, according to a statement issued Thursday by Spitzer’s office.

AP - Progress toward opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is still hindered by questions about the quality of scientific and engineering work, a year after allegations of fraud emerged, congressional investigators said Thursday.

AFP - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit accusing a company of selling e-mail addresses in what he described as the largest deliberate breach of privacy in Internet history.

AP - Computer-savvy Philippine protesters took civil disobedience to cyberspace Thursday, launching a "virtual sit-in" campaign that urged online activists to overwhelm the police Web site with numerous hits.

Reuters - The Web site reads like an advertisement for a holiday home.

Users flock to Platial, a map-sharing site where "neogeographers" share their personal knowledge of the terrain, from the best indie bookstores to spots where they've enjoyed intimate encounters. By Annalee Newitz.

Reuters - The Web site reads like an advertisement for a holiday home.

E! Online - In an entry published on the Huffington Post over the weekend, political pundit and eponymous blogger Arianna Huffington issued an apology to readers of her site after misleadingly crediting George Clooney with authoring a politically charged entry. As for the Oscar-winning actor, well, he may have to wait a while longer for his mea culpa.

AP - The broadcaster Discovery Communications Inc. wants to help kids with their homework by selling them access to an enhanced home version of the video encyclopedia network already used by thousands of schools.

Reuters - An attack on a U.N. site in south Sudan, most likely by Ugandan rebels, pushed peacekeepers into their first deadly exchange of fire, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.

AP - Commentator Ariana Huffington apologized to readers for a blog posted on her Web site on March 13 that was attributed to actor George Clooney but was actually a compilation of his views.

AP - The finance section Google Inc. unveiled Tuesday continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site that seems increasingly interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending them elsewhere.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Mountain View, CA (AHN) - Online search engine giant Google Inc. is devoting a section of its Web site to information about the stock market and corporate America, filling a gaping product hole as it continues to battle for Internet traffic with rivals Yahoo...

AP - Sweden's foreign minister resigned Tuesday, accused of lying about shutting down a far-right Web site that solicited cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

TechWeb - Google and Nike launch a Web site for soccer fans that offers video, information on games and players and social networking.

Kelley/Uustal launch their new web site with the help of PaperStreet Web Design. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2006]

Reuters - Google Inc. is introducing a financial news, stock quote and chat service that seeks to shake up the online finance information market now dominated by Internet media rivals and online brokers.

AP - Online search engine leader Google Inc. is devoting a section of its Web site to information about the stock market and corporate America, filling a gaping product hole as it continues to battle for Internet traffic with rivals Yahoo Inc., MSN and America Online.

AP - A new Web site could carry America's fascination with celebrities and the art of product placement on TV to dizzying levels.