One of the most striking things that hit me in my analysis of the 30 most visited blogs at Truth Laid Bear was the small number of blogs using the Adsense program.

President Bush and Prince Abdullah shook on it. Oil prices have been cliff diving like lemmings on angel dust. We are all systems go now for off-roading this summer, right? Not quite.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide more than doubled its earnings for the first quarter.

According to the Commerce Department, the economy’s growth fell to its slowest rate in two years at 3.1% in the first quarter.

Does Microsoft consider the server environment a site is hosted on when applying relevancy rankings for their search results? If this were indeed true, wouldn’t manipulation of this sort render their SERPs as biased and non-relevant?

BBC News: “eBay is the top brand name on the net, according to calculations by net monitoring company Envisional.

Mining company BHP Billiton’s iron ore production increased by 14% in the third quarter.

The European Union lost an appeal against a World Trade Organization decision making its subsidized sugar exports illegal.

Dutch recording industry tries persuading government to collect a tax on all devices that could potentially store a pirated work.

The $3.4 billion merger of Molson Coors has led to the company’s net loss of $46.5 million in the first quarter.

High demand for premium cable services and broadband Internet connections pay off for the cable provider.

Exxon Mobil reported financial results for the first quarter today, including a boost in profit.

Yahoo, unsurprisingly, is taking steps towards being a banner ad-serving company via its network of content publisher partners. Google recently announced their own progress in this area, which included allowing animated banners, and a new CPM-based pricing system.

Chipmakers ATI, Nvidia, both see declines as Intel’s Centrino line gets a new addition.

Energy is in a crisis right now. Oil prices have been shooting off the charts for months now. Oil went over $58 a barrel earlier this month. It’s starting to drop but gasoline is still more then $2.20 a gallon at the pump.

Recent revamp to the portal company’s news site features easier navigation and a cleaner layout.

This has been a quiet week at work: no big projects, few meetings, several coworkers gone.

Coca-Cola Enterprises announced that its senior management team is going though some big changes.

Allied Domecq agreed to be taken over by Pernod Ricard last week for $14.2 billion.

Latest revision to OS X will set existing users back $129; update will be included on new Macs sold.

Remember the backpacks in the Ghostbusters movies? They had nuclear accelerators on their backs. UCLA scientist Seth Putterman may not be far off from with their new experiments being published in today’s issue of the science journal, Nature.

In its sixth flyby of Saturn, US-European-Italian space probe, Cassini, delivered the best glimpse yet of Saturn’s tiny moon Epimetheus.