http://news.yahoo.com – NEW YORK – Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below the 8,000 mark, as the fate of Detroit's Big Three automakers and the economy disheartened investors. Read more »

http://www.newsvine.com – CAIRO — Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. Read more »

http://www.money.co.uk – A $125million settlement means consumers will soon be able to read in-copyright books online. In what has been hailed as the start of the digital reading revolution, Google have been given the go-ahead to make in-copyright books available for public download. Readers will soon be able to search, preview and read millions of in-copyright but out-of-print books online using Google Book Search. Read more »

http://abcnews.go.com – The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy. Read more »

http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank won't disclose details of the $2 trillion in emergency loans of taxpayer funds because doing so would stigmatize banks needing the money. Read more »

http://www.techcrunch.com – Today, the (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of the total, or $66 million. (Another $2 million or so came from other search engines). Read more »

http://www.ftc.gov – A federal judge has banned Kevin Trudeau from infomercials in which he has an interest for three years and ordered him to pay more than $5 million in profits from his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About." The ruling confirms an earlier contempt finding against Trudeau – the second time he has been found in contempt of court in the past four years. Read more »

http://www.forbes.com – Yahoo!'s Five Biggest Mistakes Brian Caulfield, 11.18.08, 07:00 PM EST The Web portal's employees open up (a little) about the company's problems. Sirens blared outside Yahoo!'s campus Tuesday, a day after chief executive Jerry Yang said he will step down as the Web portal continues to struggle to gain a grip on the advertising market and capitalize on its media assets. Read more »