Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth gives Yahoo its second straight day of major Wall Street love for the Internet company’s stock.

The washingtonpost.com has launched the "Issue Coverage Tracker," a new application that compares the amount of press coverage between candidates and the major issues of the 2008 presidential race.

When VideoEgg mocked YouTube over a not-so-new ad format, it raised a lot of eyebrows.  It also, it seems, raised a lot of interest – less than a month has passed, and VideoEgg just collected $15 million in funding.

Look for Beelzebub to stroll around in long underwear with a Windows logo on it, now that Microsoft has opted to have its Silverlight media player supported on Linux.

Google is throwing its weight behind the Patent Reform Act, expected to come to a vote in the House of Representatives later this week. The company feels excessive patent litigation is a drag on the free market.

Google’s search dominance has reached legendary proportions, and the term “Google killer” has become something of a joke.  But there’s word that a number of powerful companies, along with the Japanese government, will work together to challenge the search giant.

In 2006 the social networking application market was relatively small, reaching $46.8 million, according to a new study by IDC.

Does anybody out there use Yahoo Messenger’s chat rooms?  If your answer is “not anymore” you’d be in the majority.  If your answer is “yes,” then you’re probably a viral marketing robot.

Users of Facebook will have their profiles indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo unless they opt to keep their listings from appearing in search engines.

Readers of the magazine Business 2.0 will not see another issue after October’s has been published; Time Inc has decided to shut down the seven-year old publication.

Online ad network BlueLithium, the fifth largest in the US, joins the Yahoo fold to give the company a boost in its performance marketing efforts.

The latest contribution to the Google Public Policy blog, on the topic of patent reform and Google’s stance, received a pointed rebuttal from a Brookings Institution guest scholar.

Virgil Griffith’s Wikiscannner has helped uncover some new naughtiness by Sony, this time involving Wikipedia and a forthcoming competitor’s game title.

U.S. social networking sites may generate revenue that could reach $1 billion in 2007, and increase from $400 million in 2006, according to IDC’s "Social Networking Services in the US-Popular, Yes, But how To Monetize Them?" report.

If Wikipedia’s users get to determine the next president, it seems like we’ll be seeing Ron Paul in the White House; according to an analysis of four different factors, the Republican candidate is popular in just about every way.

Google hid an Easter egg so well it wasn’t found until nearly Labor Day, in South Africa, where I’m not even sure if they have Labor Day. Doesn’t matter, it’s not really an Easter egg, either, it’s a flight simulator tucked inside of the most recent release of Google Earth.