New York - Google plans to begin selling e-books through its search engine, The New York Times reported on Sunday, in a move that will give current e-book giant Amazon.com competition in the nascent industry. [more..]

Los Angeles - Photos and specifications for Sony's new PSP Go handheld game system have leaked online, and the much smaller and lighter device will forego the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format in favor of 16GB of on-board memory, according to published reports. [more..]

Los Angeles - Microsoft introduced "Project Natal," a motion-sensing camera controller accessory for the Xbox 360, on Monday at the E3 video game convention in Los Angeles. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on the side of Cablevision in a legal dispute between the cable TV provider and the Hollywood TV networks and movie studios, over its planned "remote storage" digital video recorder that would store recorded programs on the company's servers rather than a consumer set-top box, Dow Jones Newswires reported. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - Prime View, a Taiwan-based provider of electronic displays and supplier of ePaper display modules, announced on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire E Ink, a maker of electronic paper display materials, for approximately $215 million. [more..]

Washington - The Obama administration plans to name Google executive Andrew McLaughlin to become the nation's Deputy CTO, The New York Times reported, citing two people with knowledge of the situation. [more..]

New York - Digital music service eMusic announced on Monday that it has signed its first deal with a major record label, Sony Music, which has agreed to license its back catalog to the service. [more..]

Los Angeles - Concert promoter and venue owner Live Nation, whose proposed $1.5 billion merger with Ticketmaster is under antitrust review, announced on Monday that it will eliminate "convenience" fees normally charged for tickets to some of its events on Wednesdays this summer. [more..]

London - Seatwave, a U.K.-based online secondary ticket marketplace, has landed $17 million in fourth round funding, led by Accel Partners, according to a post on Atlas Venture partner Fred Destin's blog. [more..]

Los Angeles - Retail giant Walmart has announced that it will shut down the servers maintaining access to customers who purchased security-protected songs from its online store before the company abandoned the use of digital rights management (DRM) in February 2008, Hypebot reported. [more..]

Jacksonville, Fla. - Cliqset, a platform that aims to help developers and users create, organize and share social information on the Web, desktop and mobile environments, announced on Monday that it has raised $1.5 million in angel funding, from Vurv Technology founder Derek Mercer. [more..]

Menlo Park, Calif. - MashLogic, a developer of technology that provides contextual information about websites, has raised $500,000 in angel funding from investors SoftTech VC, About.com founder Scott Kurnit, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Wikia CEO Gil Penchina, TechCrunch reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - Surviving members of the Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were on hand at Microsoft's E3 press conference on Monday to introduce the upcoming video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" from Harmonix and MTV Games. [more..]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Blake Jorgensen, the current CFO of Yahoo, will leave the company to become the new executive vice president and CFO of San Francisco-based apparel company Levi Strauss & Co. [more..]

Secaucus, N.J. - Japanese electronics firm Panasonic on Monday introduced what it says is the first portable Blu-ray Disc player, the $799 DMP-B15. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts on Monday announced the relaunch of its EASports.com site, which the company plans to push as an online hub for its sports content. [more..]