AP, CNet Strike Deal

Associated Press and CNet Inc., the Internet source for computer and technology information, are entering into a partnership to share up-to-the-minute content and news. AP will select stories from CNet News.com’s daily coverage of technology to supplement the AP’s own business and technology reports. The CNet News.com stories will be distributed to AP newspaper and broadcast members on the news cooperative’s financial wires. AP will also display selected CNet News.com stories on the Wire, a multimedia Web site linked to more than 300 AP member news sites. CNet also will use selected technology and general news stories from AP on CNet News. San Francisco-based CNet’s shares fell 94 cents, closing at $49 on Nasdaq.