The controversial pundit behind The Huffington Post explains why the mainstream media is failing, and serves up some zingers for Bush apologists posing as journalists.

Internet information search engine Google has raised more than four billion dollars to finance its development. Google said in a statement received on Thursday that an operation to sell 14.159 million shares at 295 dollars each had successfully raised 4.177 billion dollars.

A string of issues related to its trustworthiness, especially about adware, could tarnish the portal's reputation on the Net.

Coca-Cola has finally unveiled M5, a design project that asked five design groups from five continents to "create and share visions of optimism." The result, at www.them5.com, is a collection of unbranded short videos from Caviar (Japan), The Designers Republic (U.K.), MK12 (U.S.A.), Rex & Tennant McKay (South Africa), and Lobo (Brazil). Each agency created a 3- to 5-minute short film set to music from an up-and-coming music group, including Towa Tei, Citizen Bird, Guided by Voices, Fischerspooner, and The Flaming Lips.

A Washington judge on Tuesday cleared the way for a former Microsoft executive to work for Google in China but placed tough restrictions on confidential information he had gleaned while working at Microsoft.

Yahoo Inc. said it is upgrading Yahoo Mail, the most popular Web e-mail program, to make it run more efficiently than other Web-based systems and nearly as fast as desktop e-mail. The new version of Yahoo Mail works in a browser, just as existing versions of the program do, but Yahoo has developed ways to short-circuit the multi-second delays that typically delay any action taken in Web-based e-mail programs.

Would you buy Windows Vista? For Bill Gates and Microsoft, that's the big question. This week at the software giant's Professional Developers Conference, Gates rallied the troops--software developers, Microsoft's most important audience--to build enthusiasm for Vista, the oft-delayed new version of Windows, and Office 12, an update to Microsoft's most profitable franchise. Gates sat down with CNET News.com to talk about competitors old and new, why software hasn't fulfilled promises and the mixed blessing of controlling 90 percent of the world's PCs.

The online world waits anxiously as Firefox vets prepare to launch a browser that will hook into popular web services automatically. Bloggers around the web rejoice.

The gripping question for the television industry as the focus turns to the new fall season is how well the major networks' primetime programs will play as digital cell phone and e-mail snippets, on-demand replays, aftermarket DVDs, video games and other new gizmos. So much for the ritual of must-see appointment TV viewing.

Clear Channel Communications on Tuesday is expected to launch an online service offering hundreds of songs and music videos from new and unsigned artists as part of a larger foray onto the Web. The largest U.S. radio conglomerate, which owns about 1,200 radio stations across the country, also has a deal with GarageBand.com, a site for new musicians, to boost access to new artists material.