Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc posted a higher quarterly profit on wireless sales, but its shares fell on worries about declining land lines as growth in its FiOS television subscribers missed some estimates.

Reuters - The world's largest sportswear and shoe company Nike Inc pulled advertisements that some bloggers had dubbed anti-gay.

AP - British billionaire Sir Richard Branson showed off a key piece of his fledgling commercial space program Monday, unveiling a carrier aircraft designed to launch a passenger-carrying spaceship.

AP - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

AP - Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

AP - When Amy Morris' twin boys, then 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks.