NETWORKING PAYS OFF: LinkedIn Corp. earned $6.9 million in the fourth quarter as its online professional networking service added 14 million members. Revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to nearly $168 million. The results were better than management and analysts had forecast.

A new videogame in which players can rout French colonists shows how Vietnamese entrepreneurs are setting their sights on creating their own brands, instead of doing piece work for foreign companies.

Intel agreed to pay $6.5 million as part of a settlement with the New York attorney general, ending the last major antitrust case awaiting trial against the chip company.

AP - LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It might be a relative social network fledgling, but the social media site Pinterest has experienced a digital real estate boom and now enjoys millions of visitor hits, according to Hitwise data collected in December.