AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.

AP - Amazon.com Inc. doesn't seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.

AP - The legal salvos between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. stopped months ago, part of what officials at the wireless industry heavyweights described as a truce in a long-running battle that spanned three continents.

AP - Stocks advanced for the second straight session Wednesday as another decline in oil prices and several upbeat profit reports eased some of Wall Street's concerns about the economy.

Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price of oil fell.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets rallied on Wednesday, led by the banking and auto sectors, after an overnight rally on Wall Street helped by falling oil prices that also lifted Asian share prices.

Reuters - (Reuters) Both Dow Jones futures and S&P 500 futures were up 0.55 percent at 0945 GMT (5:45 a.m. EDT), while Nasdaq futures were 71 percent higher.