When Wall Street’s darling stock plummets upon missed earnings estimates, folks tend to concentrate so much on the recent numbers, they miss the subtleties of side comments on the future.

Voice Of America reports that American congressmen took to the floor today, blasting internet companies for being partners in censorship efforts, during a briefing earlier today.

The AFP reports that Bill Gates told a Microsoft conference in Lisbon that he has so much money, the IRS needs a seperate, special computer just for his financial information.

Over on the Google Adsense blog they are providing invaluable tips on how to optimize your Adsense ads to make more money.

A bird flu in the hand is worth two in the bush and if money grew on trees, then you may expect to find two birds there too, allowing scientist to track money and birds and thereby killing two birds with one stone. Let me explain. No, don’t. Let me start over.

Google News had the news-aggregation space to itself for quite a while, but after MSN deployed its Newsbot and Topix.net launched, other efforts followed, and some have gathered a little venture capital for themselves.

Kevin Newcomb has word from scholars at Stanford Business School that many PPC advertisers are paying much more than they need to.

And who’s to argue with his claim? Jason Calacanis made money from blogging (sold his blogging network to AOL for $25 million).

Investors in Sun Microsystems have another reason to be concerned about the company’s direction, as Sun plans to pay the initial license fee for Oracle Enterprise Edition database software on its high-end hardware.

The newspapers will be reading more about it too, as the vital cash lifeblood of both print and television has been forecast as heading online in even greater numbers.

Microsoft must open up its code or face a 2 million ($2.4 million) a day in fines from the European Commission. The feud over this has been brewing for some time and it seems to be coming to a head. They’ve given Microsoft five weeks to comply.

In a study that is both interesting and destined to get more attention than it should, A Couple of Chicks Marketing has published the findings of a 125-student survey on search engine use and online travel brands.

By investing $1 billion in AOL, Google may be placing AOL in a position to go public as a separate company and could reap a big return.

Even though Jason Calacanis didn’t show up for the Earning From Search & Contextual Ads session as scheduled, attendees made do with the likes of Google, Yahoo, the New York Times’ About.com, AOL, and JenSense discussing the topic.

I am a Microsoft Outlook user, as I’m sure many of you are. I’m not going to get into the whole Microsoft vs. Mozilla debate, but I know there is always room for improvement with either.

Over the years I have discovered exactly what derails an ad. More often than not, when an ad fails to produce results, the problem isn’t with the ad. The problem is with WHO the ad reaches.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US Dept. of Commerce backed overseer of the Internet has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on by VeriSign, the governor of all things .com and .net, over ICANN’s interference with VeriSign’s controversial Site Finder.

Those nonstop scam emails from Nigeria that attempt to swindle people will face new law enforcement efforts aided by Microsoft.

High traffic blogs are primed for a huge breakthrough in revenue generation. With their already large volume of vistors, combined with some solid products and services on offer, and you have a recipe for some serious dollars.

The San Diego firm Wireless Facilities is a partner in Google’s bid to provide San Francisco with a free Wi-Fi network.

The portal company has made another addition to its content offerings, by adding several financial columnists to Yahoo Finance.