Under the alliance, eBay will set up an online store for Paradise Electronics Retail Ltd., one of China's top consumer electronics retailers and a well known consumer brand known locally as Yongle, a spokeswoman said.

"Microsoft are willing to do more but cannot do this alone. Daily fines are not the solution," the software giant's top lawyer, Brad Smith, told reporters on Thursday.

Under the alliance, eBay will set up an online store for Paradise Electronics Retail Ltd., one of China's top consumer electronics retailers and a well known consumer brand known locally as Yongle, a spokeswoman said.

Yahoo said it would take a 14.9 percent stake in a new holding company for Japan Net Bank to be set up by SMFG.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc. has set up an Internet bank that offers higher interest rates, as part of its plan to attract more online customers and reverse a decline in consumer banking profit.

LONDON (Reuters) - As the unmistakable opening notes of the disco hit "Le Freak" thumped through the High Court on Wednesday, it was clear that "Apple Corps Ltd vs. Apple Computer Inc" was not going to be a typical trademark lawsuit.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. on Thursday said it will showcase segments from its popular "60 Minutes" television news magazine on Yahoo Inc. as it seeks a wider audience for its news programs.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online payment company PayPal is preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile phones, the company said on Wednesday.

Siemens said on Tuesday it was the main supplier to T-Mobile, the mobile phone unit of Deutsche Telekom, and a Siemens spokeswoman said that its part of the deal was worth an amount in the double-digit millions of euros.

The Conference Board said its measure of online help-wanted advertising volume slipped to 1.99 million last month from 2.16 million in January. There were 1.63 million online job postings in December.

BellSouth, which recently agreed to be sold to AT&T Inc., already sells city-wide wireless broadband services in five markets including New Orleans using a proprietary technology. It is looking at Wi-Max to lower costs and expand its subscriber base.

Mohsen al-Awajy has been in custody since Friday after writing an article which said a liberal clique of ministers and officials had become the real power behind the scenes with a direct line to King Abdullah.

The plot revolves around Lei Feng, a humble selfless People's Liberation Army soldier who, the myth goes, spent all his spare time and money helping the needy and serving the Party until tragically dying in an accident in 1962.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had cracked an international pornography ring that featured live molestations of children streamed over the Internet.

The monitoring of children online has become a hot-button subject due to a nationwide string of cases involving adult sexual predators using virtual-communities on the Internet like MySpace.com to meet child victims.