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STOCKHOLM - Sunniva Geertinger was devastated when her boyfriend took his life early this year. Full Story »

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he had never visited eBay Inc's rival classified ad site, which is the center of a bitter legal fight between the two companies. Full Story »

GENEVA (AFP) - Global postal services will soon have their own address on the Internet, after the web's authority for assigning domain names ICANN, said on Friday that it had approved the new address dot post (.post). Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Internet users looking for gift cards and other free merchandise are being steered to Web pages inviting them to send e-mails to Congress expressing their views on President Barack Obama's push to reshape the country's health system. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google has unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the Internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth's forests. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Privacy advocates slammed revamped Facebook privacy controls on Thursday, saying the change masks a move to get members to expose more information online. Full Story »

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp. may accelerate up to $150 million in reimbursements due Yahoo Inc. if their proposed Internet search partnership is approved by regulators. Full Story »

Google has seen the writing on the wall and realizes the importance of social media and real-time search for both consumers, as well as for its business customers. Today Google announced that its Google Search Appliance will now be able to provide results from Twitter in addition to the traditional Google search results. Full Story »

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo is including more Twitter messages in its search results to give people a better sense about what's happening on the Web. Full Story »

NEW YORK - AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company Thursday as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even a minimally savvy youngster can figure out how to access violent or explicitly sexual content in some virtual or Internet worlds, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The woes of Tiger Woods have spawned the inevitable online game. "Tiger Hunting," located at Break.com, features an animation of the golfer and another woman in his car being chased by his golf-club wielding wife. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of AOL Inc fell about 2 percent on their return to trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, following the Internet company's spin-off from Time Warner Inc, while shares of AOL's former parent rose. Full Story »

Yahoo will begin inserting Twitter posts directly into its general Web search results page on Thursday, expanding on an initial integration of Twitter into its search engine. Full Story »

Aol officially set sail as an independent, publicly traded company on Thursday, leaving behind its parent company Time Warner and embarking on a journey that could be turbulent. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Internet pioneer AOL returns to Wall Street on Thursday after finalizing its divorce from Time Warner and ending one of the most disastrous corporate marriages in history. Full Story »

Despite precautions taken by online virtual worlds to protect minors, sexually and violently explicit material is still showing up in areas frequented by kids under 18, according to a Thursday report from the Federal Trade Commission. Full Story »

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese regulators have turned down an application for a television license from a Hong Kong company whose local affiliate conquered the Internet earlier this month with a fanciful video of golf star Tiger Woods' Florida auto mishap. Full Story »