Status Update: Twitter and Facebook Look Like They're in Adorable Spat

Twitteronia is abuzz this morning: Some Twitter messages on the most mundane details of their lives are not getting automatically posted to Facebook, too. It must be censorship or something! More »

Mark Zuckerberg's road rage

Having completed his vision quest in India, Zuckerberg is now moving on to the requisite Eurotrip. Shown here guest-lecturing at the Technische Universität-Berlin, he's also expected to speak at an invite-only function in Munich. These trips might not seem peculiar, given Facebook's international expansion. But there is one odd pattern we've noticed. More »

Is Microsoft after Yahoo's paid-search patent?

Yahoo's board has called Microsoft's on-and-off pursuit of their company "erratic." Not that their behavior's been that straightforward, either. But could there be more to the imbroglio than Jerry Yang's founder ego and Steve Ballmer's desperate grasping at relevance on the Web? Blogger Usman Latif has a theory: It's all about "'361," a patent Yahoo obtained when it bought paid-search pioneer Overture in July 2003. The patent covers the basic business model of letting advertisers bid to place ads against keywords — the heart of Google's multibillion-dollar revenue engine. Latif's thesis: Microsoft doesn't want Yahoo's people, products, or market share; it just wants to get its hands on this patent, so it can use it to knife Google. More »