Break-dancers, wearing white T-shirts with the new "Aol." paint-splash logo, entertained those who waited on the red carpet for AOL's spin-off party last night at the New York Stock Exchange. You know, break-dancing is kinda young, kinda "back." There was a bit of accidental irony in the air on an otherwise pleasantly mild evening on Wall Street. After all,

PayPal has introduced a new Facebook app for sending money. The app is designed to allow uses to use PayPal to send money to anyone starting from Facebook. Users only need the person's email address. PayPal Director of Product Marketing Heinz Waelchli explains how it works: Visit our send money application page and click on the "Get Started" button to install the application. Next just fill in the fields in the form and click the "Continue to PayPal" button.

When we launched a Yahoo! News shortcut with Twitter content integration earlier this month, we said more was coming. Starting today, you will see recent tweets directly integrated on the Web search result page when you search for buzzy topics. How is this different from what we launched earlier? You can still see relevant tweets about the most popular topics in the news in the expanded Yahoo! News shortcut with Twitter which combines news articles, images, videos, and tweets.

It should now be easier than ever for advertisers to get their videos in front of YouTube users in different countries. Today, YouTube's Promoted Videos program launched in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. In return for a little money, Promoted Videos allows advertisers to have their clips stuck at the top of YouTube's "Related Videos" lists. The clips get a yellow background to help them stand out, too. YouTube hasn't shared any specifics,

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that 13 additional social networking sites, including those owned by Google, Yahoo and AOL, have agreed to remove sex offenders from their sites. The move follows Cuomo's announcement from last week that Facebook and MySpace had removed more than 3,500 registered sex offenders from their sites. As of today, 15 major social networking sites have agreed to use New York's e-STOP law,

Last week, we announced the CNN/YouTube Climate Debate in Copenhagen, an effort to make sure that your voice is included in the climate debate â?" and that your questions are posed to decision-makers on an international stage. Today, we want to inform you that panelists will include former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, journalist Thomas Friedman, U.N. Executive Secretary Yves de Boer and author Bjorn Lomberg. To submit your question for these leaders,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Meteor shower (Searches increased by 3,203%). Get ready for a free light show: The dramatic Geminid meteors will streak across the sky Sunday night . Holiday music online (+2,239%). Did we mention free ? " Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince "  (+204%). Now on DVD . Nobel Peace Prize (+195%). The war-time president collected his peace prize . Gilt.com (+130%).

This may be the year of real-time search, but this week alone has captured much of the attention related to the subject. Yahoo is rolling out something close to real-time search today, and of course the big news is that Google has begun incorporating real-time search results right into its regular SERPs. Google has now made another real-time search-related announcement in that they are now offering Twitter integration with the Google Search Appliance.

These are not the best of times for print media and they are the worst of times for Editor & Publisher, the journalism trade journal. The Nielsen Co. announced today that it is shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years. Nielsen is selling eight other trade publications - including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard - to e5 Global Media LLC, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management,

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore AdEffxâ?¢, an integrated campaign effectiveness measurement suite that enables clients to accurately "measure what matters" depending on their particular campaign objectives.