America Online is plunging deeper into the growing online business of reselling tickets to rock concerts, sporting events and other live shows. The Time Warner unit is set to announce Tuesday that it has lined up TicketsNow.com as the second partner in the ticketing endeavor, having previously struck a deal with StubHub.com.

Verizon Communications Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have teamed up to launch a cheaper high-speed Internet service designed to compete against cable operators and dial-up service providers.

A major record label, the Universal Music Group, said Friday that it had entered into a strategic alliance to sell a music-oriented cell phone service.

Movie studios typically advertise on television and in newspapers in search of the biggest possible opening-weekend audience. For a new film, "The Constant Gardener," Focus Features is intent on building its audience in a different way: by taking aim at readers of niche Web sites and blogs.

Google Inc. unveils a computer and Web search tool on Monday using self-updating navigation and personal information software that puts it in more direct competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL.

Web retailer Amazon.com on Monday said it would offer online photo developing services, through a partnership with Shutterfly, a leading Internet photo service.

Thirty-seven percent of shoppers said search influenced them more than any other channel when buying a wireless product, according to a study released today. In their joint study, Yahoo Search Marketing, Pasadena, CA, and analytics firm Compete Inc., Boston, also found that most searchers go offline to buy such products.

Mashboxx is one of several avowedly law-abiding, peer-to-peer companies trying to thrive in the wake of June's landmark Supreme Court decision that found Grokster potentially liable for copyright infringement.

Underscoring the tech-savviness of even today's youngest children, Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. has launched broadband sneak peeks of its newest preschool series Go Diego Go a full two weeks before its September 6 on-air debut.

In all the speculation that followed the announcement from Google on Thursday that it planned to raise an additional $4 billion by selling stock, no one seemed to recall the space elevator. The elevator - a fanciful alternative to rocket boosters to reach earth orbit - is one of the dozens of business ideas that have been considered by the company's wide-eyed founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It also is one of the ideas that the company's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, has taken pride in keeping "below the line."