Marie Colvin, the award-winning Sunday Times journalist, has been killed in Syria. It is reported that she died alongside a French photographer in Homs when a house they were staying was shelled. News agencies say she and the photographer, Remi Ochlik, another veteran war correspondent, were killed by a rocket as they tried to make their escape. Colvin, who has worn a black eye patch since she lost an eye while working in Sri Lanka in 2001, was regarded as Britain's foremost front-line war repor...

Amazon pulled more than 4,000 e-books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group off its site this week after it failed to exact better terms from the distributor.

Canoe Ventures, which was formed by the leading cable TV operators, will lay off 120 of its 150 employees, including the chief executive.

Millions of television and Web viewers spent time Saturday afternoon watching the funeral service for Whitney Houston, and CNN was the biggest beneficiary of the viewer vigil, according to Nielsen ratings.

The ratings for Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, which had a surge of interest after his acrimonious departure from NBC in January 2010, have declined at TBS. Still, he is the signature star for the network.

The former first daughter has been a special correspondent since December, contributing to the nightly news and the prime-time news magazine "Rock Center With Brian Williams."

In the face of a High Court ruling that it violated copyright laws, the file-sharing site repeated that it would switch to a new torrent system in which nothing is downloaded from the site itself.

* Repeats story that ran on Tuesday By Poornima Gupta Feb 21 (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is in an enviable position - market leading products, a $98 billion warchest and a seemingly gravity-defying stock price. But as he gears up for the annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders, a few issues may be causing him angst. Chief among them are in China, where poor labor conditions are in the spotlight and Apple's iPad trademark is under attack. The meeting this Thursday comes d...

The Wall Street Journal is good to bird-dog the Federal Reserve on transparency, and it gets results even before publishing its story. The paper reports that the central bank, which doubles as a bank regulator, has all but quit having public meetings on new rules: The Fed is making these sweeping changes—the most dramatic since the Great Depression—almost completely without public meetings. Rather than discussing rules and voting in public, as is done at other agencies with which the Fed often c...

Very late to the party, songs from the Beatles' album "1" will now be sold as mobile ringtones at iTunes for $1.29; Kim Dotcom is released on bail, with no Internet use allowed; and more.

Team Enterprises, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is starting Team TransActive with a pair of executives, Tom Dowdy and Ira Rosenkrantz, who are well known in shopper marketing, a field that focuses on consumers at the point of sale.

The National Enquirer continues to push the boundaries of tastelessness.  The publication has published an alleged photo of Whitney Houston 's open casket on the cover of their latest issue.   According to The Wrap , the photo was taken during the singer's open-casket wake in Newark, N.J. The photo runs with the headline: "Whitney Houston Last Photo" showing the singer in a purple dress and diamond jewelry the mag claims is "worth $500,000." This isn't the first time the publication has touted s...