Like other members of the Harvard Business School class of 1999, James Currier was looking to start an Internet business. Inspiration came when he and his classmates were asked to take the Myers-Briggs test, a multiple-choice personality assessment that employers often use to show how a worker might relate to others. The site he founded after graduation, eMode.com, was built around personality tests, and, through word of mouth, survived the collapse of the dot-com bubble. Now the company, renamed Tickle.com, is growing and profitable.

Stationsare investing big money into digital radio but so far only about 80 of the 13,000 nationwide. And while the technology promises a lot there's not a lot of audience willing to plunk down $400 for a receiver.

A misconfigured spam filter blocked Comcast Corp.'s 5 million high-speed Internet customers from reaching Russia for four days. Until the filter was corrected Tuesday, customers could not send e-mail to users with Russian ".ru" domains, the company said.

Can Canadian Internet pharmacists provide a cure for high prescription drug prices in the United States? Or are they part of the problem? American regulators and lawmakers are split on the issue, even as the pharmaceutical industry continues trying to fight Canadian drug wholesalers and online retailers who have carved out a market south of the border.

Affinity marketer MemberWorks is acquiring dating site Lavalife for about $115 million, marking the third major matchup in the hot social networking space this week.

The Universal Music Group in Santa Monica, Calif., has agreed to pay a $400,000 fine to the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The commission called it the largest such penalty ever.

Jackie Jahosky's online lighting shop is just the kind of business Yahoo Inc. expected to help with its new search engine. Instead, the Internet giant has managed to rankle the Long Island entrepreneur, and plenty of others like her.

The drive to control "spyware" and other software that hijacks personal computers without owners' permission is spreading to state legislatures, turning up pressure on PC pests.

Ask Jeeves Inc. agreed to acquire closely held Interactive Search Holdings Inc. for $343 million in cash and stock, inking a deal that would double the amount of Web-search traffic it handles and bolster considerably its bargaining position with its search-page listings provider, Google Inc.

Database marketing and credit reporting service Experian expanded its offerings with the purchase of CheetahMail Inc., a New York e-mail marketing services firm that competes with DoubleClick, Digital Impact, Responsys and Bigfoot Interactive.