What ClickZ's editors are reading: Google Sells Its AOL Stake Back to Time Warner (WSJ) The $283 million transaction was processed earlier this month, consolidating full ownership of AOL under time Time Warner in preparation for a spin-off later this year.

Barnes & Noble said today it would offer free wireless Internet access at all its bookstores nationwide. Barnes & Noble has offered Wi-Fi access via AT&T since 2005, but that was a subscription-based service. Customers shopping in the bookstore will now be able to preview over 700,000 eBook titles along with thousands of public domain titles available from Google, on their Wi-Fi enabled devices.

If you're in business, someone's got to buy something for you to make money. At least last time I checked. (Twitter, call me). For the rest of you, this article should help you get more people to buy something. Sick of Hearing that People Buy Because of Emotion? Well then' that would be a strong emotional response to a logical assertion, no? But I hear you. Over and over you're told that people buy according to emotion,

Apple is notoriously known for banning applications from the App Store for some pretty iffy reasons. Sometimes a ban is in order , but other times their decisions just seems ridiculous. With Apple's recent banning of all Google Vocie related apps for the iPhone, you can chalk this one up in the ridiculous column. But, why is Apple banning Google Voice apps? Only one reason comes to mind: Pressure from AT&T brought on by FEAR .

The number of people looking for health information online has reached 154 million, representing 67 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive. The majority (83%) of people looking for health information online indicate their search was successful and almost half (45%) say it was "very successful." An even larger majority (87%) believes that this information was reliable, but only 28 percent said it was "very reliable.

AT&T has launched a new social networking app, which combines access to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and customizable news feeds. It's called the AT&T Social Net App, and it's available as a free download. "Five of the top 10 searches on our mobile Web portal are for social networking sites, a clear indication of the growing popularity of mobile social networking," says VP of voice and data products, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. Mark Collins. "With this app,

Congratulations to the UK team behind MSN Cars who have just throttled into top gear by winning a Headline Autos coveted accolade amongst some stiff competition! As part of MSN in the UK, the vertical gets a whopping 900k unique users eager to learn all about the latest vehicle models and the editorial guys have been commended for creating content that users find exceptionally relevant & accessible. As Tom Evans,

SEO has a bad rap. Tell a group of people at a party what you do and one of them will no doubt accuse you of being a spammer. But there is a distinct difference between SEO and spam. If the critics are correct then all of us are spammers. But I'm not willing to concede that just because you want your website to rank well in the search engines that you must be a spammer. Rather, I think smart business people,

There is a new search engine in town called Yebol, a search engine that does manage to combine various search features in a way that sets it apart from its competitors. Yebol has developed a technology that combines the advantages of a traditional Google like search engine (spider the web, and add an algorithm that determines what's "best") with a human touch (group high quality web sites into different categories that may be relevant to the query).

When the Time Warner board voted in late May to spin off AOL , buying back Google's 5% stake in the company would be a prerequisite for the sale. This week, Time Warner did just that . The return on investment, however, was not so hot. Google invested $1 billion in 2005 to acquired the 5% stake. They only got back $283 million. Other statements made in the filing are quite telling of the possibilities for AOL's future.