Passed over for the top job, Philip Bennett decides it is time to leave.

The Chinese government broadened its recent effort to limit pornography on the Internet by criticizing 19 Internet companies by name on Monday, including the two market leaders in the country, Google and Baidu.

The co-founder and chief executive said the ailment had been causing his recent weight loss but said the condition was treatable.

After a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business' most glittery and cozy traditions.

Ticket sales at North American movie theaters totaled $9.6 billion, a decrease of less than 1 percent from the previous year.

The letter that the Apple chief executive Steven Jobs released Monday to address questions about his health.

The Chinese government broadened its recent effort to limit pornography on the Internet by criticizing 19 Internet companies by name on Monday, including the two market leaders in the country, Google and Baidu.

Steven Jobs announced that he was being treated for a hormone imbalance but would remain head of Apple.

At a mall, past the Gap Outlet and the China Buddha Express, is a $13 million video arcade that the U.S. Army hopes will become a model for recruitment in urban areas.

Conversations with some of the leading venture capitalists about the types of companies that will receive some of the estimated $31 billion that venture capital firms raised in 2008 offer a glimpse at the future of technology.

The loser may be the Chinese consumer, who will suddenly be faced with an unappetizing choice between proven technology from players with spotty or no operating records, or unproven technology from an industry titan.

In its latest concession to the worst revenue slide since the Depression, The New York Times has taken a step that has become increasingly common across the newspaper industry.

The two-hour live countdown was like an MTV show, with edgy performances by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Lil Wayne, complete with a risque pole-dancer in the background and salty comedy from Kathy Griffin, including a vulgarity that was edited from later rebroadcasts.

The computer maker will try to set itself apart in a crowded field by introducing several laptops at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

The U.S. Army is hoping that new "experience centers," complete with video games that simulate battle, will increase enlistment among young people.

With the Consumer Electronics Show set to open Wednesday. the future of Blu-ray remains in doubt despite the demise of the HD DVD video disc format last year.

Google's book search may allow writers to make money from titles that had been out of commercial circulation for years.

A partnership with Netflix will bring access to the 12,000 films and shows in its Watch Instantly library.

After a dismal 2008 for many companies, the movie business is quietly celebrating solid if not spectacular results at the multiplex.

Israel has enlisted an arsenal of Internet tools to take its message directly to a global audience — including "the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter."