As part of the 3M Hire Our Heroes campaign, a number of the nation's military veterans who work in auto body repair shops and their shop owners who nominated them are headed to the November NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Texas.

Yahoo was the most visited U.S. Web site for the third month in a row in September, according to the latest com Score data. Yahoo last month drew 197.8 million unique visitors, followed by Google, with 191.4 million, and Microsoft, with 170.5 million. Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five, with 142.2 million, and 112.4 million visitors, respectively. Before July, the last time Yahoo was ahead of Google in the rankings was May 2011, underscoring traffic gains made under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. During the company’s third-quarter conference call, she noted that traffic had increased 20% to …

Augie Ray, formerly director of social media at Prudential Financial, tweeted this afternoon that he’s joined American Express as director, voice of customer strategy. The card giant did not immediately respond to a media request to confirm the hiring. Before joining Prudential last year, Ray was executive director of community and collaboration at USAA, and before that was a senior analyst at Forrester focusing on social media. Ray’s observations on the social media and digital space have drawn 17,801 followers on Twitter. American Express has earned a reputation as a social innovator through its Small Business Saturday program, its Sync …

A federal judge in Washington late Tuesday rejected FilmOn X's request to modify her injunction banning the company from operating in 47 states.

Yahoo on Tuesday reported third-quarter revenue that was roughly flat from a year ago, reflecting continued weakness in its display ad business. The $1.081 billion in revenue, excluding payments made to partners, was just a shade below the 1.089 from a year ago. The Web giant posted an adjusted profit in the quarter was $358 million, up 24% from a year ago. Yahoo had adjusted earnings per share of 34 cents for the quarter, compared to 39 cents, a year ago. Wall Street analysts on average had forecast earnings per share of 33 cents on revenue of 1.08 billion …