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Internet company AOL Inc. (AOL) says its fourth-quarter net income grew despite lower revenue, as the year-ago results were weighed by restructuring costs related to its separation from Time Warner Inc. and other items. AOL said Wednesday its net income for the October-December quarter was $66.2...

The Obama administration is launching a "private sector alliance" to help entrepreneurs. Startup America Partnership will bring together entrepreneurs, start-up financiers, CEOs and others to help companies start or grow, the group said in a statement. Steve Case, co-founder of AOL (AOL), will...

In a blog post on Friday, Google made its most direct warning that it would be tweaking search algorithms to punish "content farms" -- cheap producers of Web content that either copied or scraped information from other publishers. Demand Media could suffer in particular.

Better-than-expected earnings from General Electric helped lift the Dow and S&P 500. The Nasdaq closed lower after disappointing results from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. Overall, the week's strong earnings bode well for coming corporate reports.

Among Monday's top online stories for investors: Mining for treasures in the AMEX, why we desperately need a better Google, Jim Cramer's top Dow picks for 2011.

Among Wednesday's top online stories for investors: Is Google shopping around to buy an alternative to Groupon? Why did Tony Conrad sell about.me to AOL so quickly? And how can investors cash in right now on Facebook's $41 billion value?

Internet company AOL (AOL) agreed to purchase about.me Inc, a website that lets people create a single personal profile page that presents their online identity. About.me lets users bring together profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, blogs and more. Sponsored Links About.me's...