SEATTLE - A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission information about the author of an item that claimed Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A federal judge Monday rejected a plea deal that had called for Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli to get probation rather than prison for his role in a stock options backdating case that led to the largest corporate writedown of its kind.

SAN FRANCISCO - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices.

Olympian Michael Phelps' record-setting performance in Beijing has led to multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, but his road to marketing gold was paved years before he swam a lap in China.

TRENTON, N.J. - Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine misled the public.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Shares in Warner Music Group Corp. slid 9.3 percent Wednesday after a filing showed top music executive Lyor Cohen sold 800,000 shares, more than a fifth of his stake in the company, earlier in the week.

China online advertising market reached 2.8 billion yuan (411 million U.S. dollars) in the second quarter of 2008, while the number is 2.28 billion in the same time of 2007, consulting company Analyst International (AI) said on Tuesday.

ST. LOUIS - Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light, has agreed to a takeover by a giant Belgian brewer, a union that creates a global beer leader and brings to an end one of the most iconic names in American business.

NEW YORK - Even for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe retrenchments in recent memory last week.

China's media advertising operator Sinomedia will raise as much as $62 million in Hong Kong's IPO. The roadshow has launched from June 24 to July 1.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing.

PHILADELPHIA - A group of local investors said Tuesday they have bought Philadelphia's wireless Internet network, a week after EarthLink Inc. gave up on the system because it failed to make a profit.

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, prompting the Internet pioneer to hire online search leader Google Inc. to handle some of its advertising sales.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - News and financial information company Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell its Dialog research database business to the ProQuest unit of privately held Cambridge Information Group.

NEW YORK - Susan Lyne, who rebuilt the Martha Stewart Living business in the aftermath of the namesake founder's legal woes, has stepped down as chief executive, and the job is being split between two company executives.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. may have to defend its response to Microsoft Corp.'s takeover attempt in a trial that could sway the outcome of the Internet pioneer's August showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn.

NEW YORK (AP) -- AOL is revamping its popular online radio service Tuesday, adding streams from all 140 CBS Corp.-owned radio stations and upgrading its player to add more functions and expand the service's reach.

NEW YORK - In the latest effort to placate restless investors, Yahoo Inc. president Sue Decker laid out plans Wednesday for building the company's online advertising operations, and Yahoo announced a slew of new partnerships.