In quest for the end of a title drought that began in 1995, the U.S. David Cup team extended team captain Patrick McEnroe`s contract by two more years.

Online business sites are preparing big-time for the upcoming holiday season, where the strong survive and the weak don`t offer what consumers are looking for and can go out of business or at least lose out on big sales if they aren`t careful.

Coming into the season, people expected the Mavs to be good. However nobody expected them to be this good - this fast. With all do respect to the players, the credit for Dallas Success should go first and foremost to the head coach.

The fantasy hockey pool manager, Hockey Draft, has issued two new services this week, offering much more fantasy hockey options. The first service is a box selection pool, similar to the ones seen in magazines and newspapers.

The Philadelphia-based hosting service provider, X1Services, announced this week the acquisition of MaximumVPS, the account provider. X1Services is a leading hosting service provider offering services ranging from reseller hosting to dedicated and custom solutions.

Search company Google takes its online spreadsheet project one major step forward and buys iRows, and independent company that specializes in online spreadsheet services.

A large percentage of small businesses close down with in their first year of operation. Thus, having a newly developed small business that is already receiving praise from critics and customers a like, is a great way to ensure that yours will not be part of the percentage of failures.

With the 2005 World Series in full swing, in celebration XM Satellite Radio offered a free satellite radio to every fan who entered U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago for Game One on Saturday.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil?s president for the last four years, won re-election this week in a landslide against his opponent, the center-right politician Geraldo Alckmin. With the vote going 61 percent for Lula da Silva and 39 percent for Alckmin, analysts say voters wanted to reward the Worker?s Party candidate for the work he has done for Brazil while in office.

Hostway Corp., a leading provider of Web hosting and managed services, will hold a live audio Web seminar on August 16 to educate companies on how to avoid creating small-to-medium-sized business blunders.

There was another series of cases of the bird flu discovered in Russia this past Monday, China has reported a fresh outbreak of the bird flu in the eastern province of Anhui, and the Health Ministry of Indonesia confirmed another death of a human due to bird flu.

Massive explosions rocked the Indian capital of New Dehli on Sunday as marketplaces prepared for that country`s festival of lights. As of press time, 61 people had died in the most recent terrorist attacks to hit India.

Boeing decided to settle U.S allegations about violating export regulations and will pay a $15 million fine. Boeing was accused of selling commercial jets equipped with a chip that had potential army uses. The State Department has agreed to settle, and the fine will be a part of a consent decree.

The Seattle Mariners have asked waivers on infielder Scott Spiezio for the purpose of granting him his unconditional release. The switch-hitting Spiezio missed 62 games from April 20-July 1 with a strained left oblique muscle. He was 3 for 30 batting left-handed this season, 0 for 17 right-handed.

The Sun Devils (3-1) had 475 yards of total offense and scored four touchdowns in the third quarter to pull away. The Beavers (2-2) piled up 525 yards of total offense, but turned the ball over six times.