Steve Jobs confirmed weeks of hard-to-believe rumors Monday, saying that Apple Computer will end its 11-year partnership with IBM and adopt a new generation of microprocessors from Intel.

Procter & Gamble Co. is pulling the plug June 13 on Reflect, its once highly touted experiment in mass customization of beauty products, shutting the Web site and retail stores in San Francisco and Chicago.

If online advertising revenue continues to grow as quickly as it did in the first quarter, the industry could see advertising sales above $11 billion this year.

Ford Motor Company is giving Web users a virtual test drive of its new high-end sports car, the Ford GT, via a downloadable racing game. The new multi-level game, dubbed the Supercar Challenge, is aimed at reaching both potential Ford buyers and youngsters who might aspire to buy a Ford in the future. Wild Tangent built the game and JWT Detroit is handling the overall communications plan.

Internet media company Yahoo Inc. will quit charging fees for auctions on its U.S. site in an effort to encourage more people to sell their wares, the company said on Sunday.

This is how the Internet was supposed to help music: last year, J. P. Connolly, a science teacher in Brooklyn, heard a song by one of his students, a rail-thin 15-year-old named Oliver Ignatius, who is the lead singer for a band called the Hysterics. Mr. Connolly, who had bonded with his student over independent music, loved Mr. Ignatius's song and posted it on Music for Robots, an influential blog he helps run.

These days, triple-digit annual growth rates are rare among major Web sites. Meet that rarity: Craigslist. Exceptional, too, is the ability to draw 10 million unique visitors each month without ever relying on venture capital and equity markets. Or the ability to attain fourth place among general-interest portals without ever spending a penny on marketing.

Phishing attacks are getting harder to spot as cybercriminals become increasingly skilled at disguising their fraudulant Web sites.

Microsoft acknowledges that hackers booby-trapped its MSN Web site in South Korea to steal passwords from visitors. The company says it was unclear how many Internet users might have been victimized. Microsoft said it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers inserted this week. Spokesman Adam Sohn said Thursday that Microsoft was confident its English-language Web sites were not vulnerable to the same type of attack.

When Google Inc.'s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don't go away. In an era of increased government surveillance, privacy watchdogs worry that Google's vast archive of Internet activity could prove a tempting target for abuse.