New York's attorney general sues an internet company, accusing the firm of selling e-mail addresses to marketers after promising flatly not to do so. If the charge is accurate, it would be among the largest breaches of internet privacy ever.

AFP - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit accusing a company of selling e-mail addresses in what he described as the largest deliberate breach of privacy in Internet history.

AP - A company accused of selling e-mails, in what may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever, has been sued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

AP - General Motors Corp. said Thursday that it is selling a majority interest in its commercial mortgage division for $1.5 billion in cash to a private investment group.

AP - The broadcaster Discovery Communications Inc. wants to help kids with their homework by selling them access to an enhanced home version of the video encyclopedia network already used by thousands of schools.

AP - Americans pay on average $50 per month for cell-phone service, yet there are free wireless hotspots in lots of places.

InfoWorld - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, at the EclipseCon 2006 conference on Wednesday.

Reuters - If you can't sing like an American Idol, you will soon be able to dress like one.

AP - Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index opened lower Wednesday on selling in securities house and pharmaceutical issues. The dollar slipped against the yen and euro.

Reuters - U.S. Treasury debt prices tumbled on Tuesday as a jump in underlying producer inflation and economic optimism from the Federal Reserve Chairman sparked a wave of selling that took on a momentum of its own.

Reuters - Jones Apparel Group Inc. , which owns the Nine West label and Barneys clothing stores, is exploring strategic options including selling the company to private equity firms, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

USATODAY.com - Officials in New Orleans want to nip a pernicious rumor in the bud: There's no truth to an e-mail-spread report that garden centers across the USA are selling mulch from New Orleans infested with dreaded Formosan termites that will eat your house down.

AFP - In a bid to take a lead in the battle for dominance in next-generation DVD players, Toshiba Corp will start selling the world's first HD DVD player in Japan later this month, a report says.

Reuters - Michaels Stores Inc. , the largest arts-and-crafts retailer in the United States, is expected to announce strategic alternatives that could lead to sale of the company, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday.

Reuters - Some South Korean musicians may be singing the blues after prosecutors said they had broken up a crime ring selling bogus music diplomas from Russia, which helped many land university jobs and seats in orchestras.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, DC (AHN) - According to the marketing information company, ACNielsen, in the super-competitive business of selling wine, animals on labels give new brands an edge. Americans buy twice as much of new wines with beasts on their labels as they do other...

AFP - Royal Dutch Shell said that it has decided against selling its global Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing and distribution business.