Google, which last week cleared its first earnings session as a public company, wakes up today to find that for the moment at least, its market cap exceeds Yahoo!'s.

There are results out today of a study pertaining to online safety.

Yahoo! held its annual Creative Works Summit in New York yesterday, awarding its iconic purple Big Idea Chair to Audi of America and its agency McKinney + Silver.

Okay online people, listen up. Here's an entertaining morsel for some of The Minute's critics.

The business of advertising in videogames - console, PC, and especially online games - is heating up. Niche ad networks Massive and InGamePartners are racing to serve this fledgling market. So is it any wonder that rich media providers are bringing specialized ad formats into the picture?

First the television screen, then the computer screen, and now the cell phone screen? With worldwide revenue from mobile information and entertainment expected to grow to $39 billion in 2007 per the research firm Ovum, mobile phones look like the next big platform for advertisers to do their thing.

Oh my, it seems that several readers, or at least the ones who were outraged enough to write, were offended by The Minute's ruminations on events surrounding the upcoming presidential election.

It's Google, again.

With the third of the 2004 Presidential debates concluding last night and Election Day approaching, the pollsters are polling away. AOL conducted polls before, during and after the debate - painting a picture of thousands of citizens across the country whose TVs are in direct sight of their computers or who are curled up on the couch with the cat, the Wi-Fi, and the remote.

In a report released by Pew Internet & American Life Project study earlier this week, we learned that while one in four Americans spend time online researching prescription medications, a surprising few actually click "purchase."