Investor’s Business Daily – Google (NMS:GOOG) will continue to provide the search results on AOL’s Web site under a new, five-year deal. The deal will put AOL video content on Google’s YouTube site for the first time.

Microsoft announced that the code base for Windows Phone 7 1.0 has been finalized. The software has been “released to manufacturing,” meaning that this version is the one handset makers will deploy on the first devices to feature the radically redesigned mobile OS.

PC World – Best-selling authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear have launched The Mongoliad, the first digital novel on a so-called social book platform that will allow them to add new elements such as music, video and reader-generated content to the book.

NewsFactor – The Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing false advertising rules against “astroturfing.” On Friday, the agency announced a settlement with a public-relations firm that had been posting fake, favorable online reviews for a client. The settlement is the first enforcement under new FTC guidelines.

AP – Real estate data provider CoreLogic says the number of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the property is worth declined slightly in the second quarter versus the first three months of this year.