Institutional Shareholder Services has relegated newly public Google to the governance basement, ranking the search-engine company lower than any company in the S&P 500 stock index.

Intel Corp. this week is expected to introduce a chip that adds support for a relatively obscure version of Wi- Fi, analysts said on Monday, in a move that could help ease congestion on wireless networks.

Accor North America has reached an agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. to install wireless Internet access throughout all of its Red Roof Inns over the next year, officials said.

Research firm Nielsen/NetRatings will launch a service tracking how consumers use financial Web sites--the first of a series of efforts to focus on specialized industries.

Tari Akpodiete has what might be called a mildly unnatural preoccupation with banner ads. For the last couple of years, she's been copying just about every one she's come across onto a website, and in the process has built what she believes is the largest collection of such ads in the world.

While Republicans firm up their campaign platform during the Republication National Convention in New York City next week, Yahoo! rolls out a campaign touting its search platform to convention-goers.

CNET Network plans to advertise the need for its newsletter recipients to add trusted businesses' "from" addresses to their e-mail address book in a campaign to run in several CNET e-mail newsletters.

Geoffrey Y. Yang, a top Silicon Valley venture capitalist, can take solace in all those companies he has invested in that produced rich payouts, including Ask Jeeves, NetFlix and Excite.

The Macon Daily is providing affordable classified ads, a yellow page directory, and other great features designed to make life easier for middle Georgians. Macon Area Online is ranked in the top 10 on all the major search engines under searches for Macon. So that means that anyone looking to buy, sell or find something in middle Georgia will most likely land on our website. No other media can claim an unlimited audience except the internet.

Google this week removed the ads from the top of all free hosted Blog*Spot blogs, previously delivered as part of Google's AdWords contextual ad program, and replaced them with a Blogger navigation bar that includes a search box.