AFP - Facebook is asking a US court to shut down German website StudiVZ on the grounds it is an illegal "knockoff" of the online social networking superstar.

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that full-year sales would be at the lower end of expectations because of difficult trading conditions, despite a rise in first-quarter sales.

AP - Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.

AP - Shares of Apple Inc. fell sharply as investors focused more on the company's cautious guidance for the current quarter than on the blockbuster Macintosh and iPod sales during the previous three-month period.

Reuters - Facebook Inc. is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said late on Sunday.