New York - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) Dow Jones & Company announced that it will not renew the news partnership between its Dow Jones Newswires and the Associated Press, and instead has signed a deal to distribute editorial content from rival Agence France-Presse (AFP). The company noted that the deal does not affect agreements between AP and The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Factiva. Dow Jones Newswires publishes up to 12,000 items each day, reporting from nearly 90 bureaus worldwide. The company said it also plans to expand its global editorial staff, and that the changes are part of its broader strategy to invest in its global financial news operations.

New York - ROO Group, a provider of Internet TV broadcasting technology, on Tuesday said it added Fox Television Stations, Agence France-Presse and Chat the Planet to its client roster. For Fox, ROO will receive daily local and regional news video and allow Web publishers to select clips for their own sites, while for AFP the company will launch an international news channel for both English and German news video.

San Francisco - Google has begun publishing full stories from news agencies such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Press and Britain's Press Association on its Google News aggregation service, Reuters reported.

Washington - The news gathering organization Agence France-Presse (AFP) announced that it has settled a lawsuit with Google, and licensed the company to use AFP news and photos on Google News and other services.

Stockholm - Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay announced on Friday that it is looking to buy its own island, as a means of evading copyright laws, Agence France Presse reported.