Reuters - Yahoo's annual investor meeting on Friday will be a magnet for discontent over the company's failure to reach a merger deal with Microsoft and complaints about the company's past performance.

Reuters - China's blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes.

AP - After spending weeks ridiculing Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors, nettlesome investor Carl Icahn has piped down and won't even be at the Internet company's annual meeting Friday.

Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao said his country would stand by pledges made when it was awarded the Olympics as Games officials deflected fire over Internet censorship on Friday by lifting restrictions.

AFP - China on Friday allowed media at the Olympic press centre to access Amnesty International's website and a small number of previously censored sites, but a wide array of others remained blocked.