Washington - Google's proposed online advertising partnership with Yahoo is drawing a good degree of scrutiny in Washington, where, along with the Senate Judiciary Committee -- which has already announced plans to hold a hearing on the deal -- four other Congressional committees in addition to the Justice Dept. are said to be examining different aspects, AdAge reported. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Google is planning to introduce a new Internet audience measurement service, to compete with existing ratings provided by comScore and Nielsen, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. [more..]

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire the outstanding shares of Symbian, which develops the operating system that runs Nokia mobile phones, that it does not already own in a deal valued at about $410 million. [more..]

Waterloo, Canada - Close to half (44%) of all Internet traffic in North America is peer-to-peer file transfers, an increase of 3% from a year ago, according to a report due to be released today by Sandvine, a company that markets bandwidth monitoring technology, Ars Technica reported. [more..]

New York - InterActiveCorp. (IAC) has announced plans to launch an online advertising network that will cover all of its 26 various brands and Web properties, including Evite, Citysearch and Match.com. [more..]

Palo Alto, Calif. - Jaxtr, a provider of Internet phone services for social networks and blogs, said on Tuesday that it has raised $10 million in its second round of funding, led by new investor Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. [more..]

San Francisco - Yoono, the developer of a social Web browser extension for Mozilla's Firefox, has added $4 million to its first round of venture capital financing, which was led by AGF Private Equity, TechCrunch reported. [more..]

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Paul Sweeting: Why spend upwards of $1 billion to buy brick-and-mortar locations you don't need? [more..]

London - Amazon is preparing to bring its MP3 store to the U.K., the Telegraph reports, and Amazon executives met with British record label heads last week to firm up the details. [more..]

San Francisco - Online social network Facebook has signed a deal with credit card provider Visa that will bring $2 million in advertising spending on the site, while providing Visa with the opportunity to market its services to the 80,000 small businesses with profiles on the site, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Rochester, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. announced that it is entering the imaging technology market for mobile devices. [more..]

New York - Interscope/Geffen recording artist Beck will preview his new album "Modern Guilt" via 10,000 Internet-connected digital jukeboxes on TouchTunes' nationwide network a week before its official release on July 8. [more..]

Dallas - Video rental giant Blockbuster on Tuesday announced a partnership with PayPal, whose online payment service will now be accepted as a payment method for its online DVD rental service. [more..]

Los Angeles - European Web-based karaoke site RedKaraoke on Tuesday launched an English-language version of its service, which offers a catalog of 14,000 songs, and claims more than 400,000 users worldwide, TechCrunch reports. [more..]

Palo Alto, Calif. - IMVU, developer of a site that lets young adults meet each other through 3D avatars, said on Tuesday that it now features a catalog of virtual goods with more than 1.5 million items. [more..]

Washington - Leonard Downie Jr., who has served as executive editor of The Washington Post since 1991, said that he plans to retire in September. [more..]