This isn't recent news but it's been dodging around on my radar recently. I finally got time to have a look through it today.

Samsung has announced that their first quarter profit has fallen 15% on the same period last year, their worse earnings repo

According to Rep. Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Banking Committee...

Google released a report on ClickBot.A, a click fraud bot net. Did Google or Panda catch these bad guys?

According to CNN, which is according to Fortune, which is according to Hitwise, which is according to some estimation.

If there are any SEO/SEM firms in Utah, they are going to be moving soon.

Starting on October 15, Verisign is increasing .com domain prices 7 percent and .net domains 10 percent. Renew your domains now to save money.

The PlentyOfFish owner Markus discovered a recording of a phone conference with Battelle that reveals the Adsense revenue share percentages. You can here it here at minute 24:40 where they uncover the percentages.

Earlier this morning I attempted to post a question here asking if anybody else saw the horrible yellow-colored background appearing behind the Top 3 AdWords ads (was blue). I thought it was nothing more than another UI test, but it's since been made official via Google.

Clear as mud.. thats the best way to describe Googles new Adsense optimization advice. Last night the Adsense team started sending personalized but automated optimization tips to publishers.

Google announces TV Ads trial here it's going to be auction based again, like the print ads... oh hum

sidenote: anyone seen current.tv on sky in the UK ?

Matt's Blog hacked or Not..

Sorry Matt but either way If you were Hacked then I'm sorry, but if it's a April the 1st Joke, Then bad taste,

Reasons

a) you post you upgrade your wordpress "I upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.0.x to 2.1.x tonight, and I’m a little grumpy"

From This Is London, HSBC may be spamming you soon.

After the recent dog day at Google, I figured cat day was next, guess not though:

...over the past few days we have literally been inundated with inquires asking if we will also have a cat day, and the short answer is no. While we understand there are many cat lovers that use Google products, cats are unfortunately not allowed at the Googleplex...

See them for yourself on WebmasterWorld and the discussion thread about this new twist.

Pirate Bay moves servers to North Korean Embassy to escape RIAA... (gotta be an april fools joke or something).

Not Today but Soon... Maybe...

The WTO and most of the rest of the world now agrees that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (The UIGEA you remember, the Bill that was attached to the completely non-related Port Security Bill in the middle of the night, in a back room, by a few slimy US Senators on their last day in power)... is a protectionist law.

This just in from ole Rageboy:

I met Kathy Sierra last night for the first time -- on camera. This email just hit my inbox from CNN: The segment is scheduled to debut on our morning show "CNN American Morning" which airs between 6am to 9am. If there is breaking news of a serious status, it will not run.

AOL to serve advertising

Quote: NBC and News Corp. said they had signed up three of Google's largest rivals, including Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, to distribute their programming and offer a major Internet advertising vehicle.

ICANN rejected .xxx:

"To assume an ongoing management and oversight role regarding Internet content is inconsistent with ICANN's technical mandate," read a rejection of the .xxx proposal adopted by the ICANN board.