Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling

You'd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one another inaccurate, spineless "toddlers." More »

Microsoft Flacks Banned 'Forever' Over a 'Significantly Less Blue' Scoop

Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch publisher and noted feuding diva, has "banned" Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom for a blown embargo. Forever. What huge scoop was stolen from him, by Microsoft's terrorist network? More »

Jealous Google Lets Employees Flirt with Microsoft, But No Petting

Google takes it all back, baby. The company now acknowledges it was wrong to begrudge programmer Jon Skeet a Microsoft MVP Award, just because it came from The Enemy. He can accept the prize. But no whispering sweet nothings. More »

Bing Heats Google Ice Queen

It's been ten years since Microsoft decisively buried Netscape, and Silicon Valley is still frightened of the monster in Redmond, Washington. Even giant Google is paranoid; the company is increasingly said to be chasing Microsoft's tail lights. More »

Twitter CEO's Mockery: We 'Were Laughing at Those Media Guys'

Twitter's revenues will be just $4 million this year, according to a new Wired feature story. But that's not going to crimp its co-founder's swagger: Evan Williams knows Twitter will be huge, and has words for anyone who says otherwise. More »

Ousted Twitter Co-Founder's Twitter Derivative Has a Hometown

It's easy to get the idea Jack Dorsey is acting out a revenge fantasy. Fired one year ago as CEO of his brainchild Twitter, Dorsey now says he's planning a startup with "similar ideas" — right in Twitter's back yard. More »

Google Tells Employee to Decline Microsoft Award

Each year starting in 2003, Microsoft has honored Jon Skeet for his extensive work helping people code in a Microsoft-developed programming language. But Skeet joined Google last year, and his new employer is apparently the jealous type. More »

Video Game "Crusader" Files Wacky Facebook Lawsuit

Disbarred Florida lawyer Jack Thompson gained some notoriety when, in 2006, he appeared on 60 Minutes to rail against violent video games. Nerds the world over took to Facebook to call him names. Now he's suing the website. More »

Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars

Elon Musk and Hendrik Fisker are mortal enemies in the green car business. Yet the feds just split a billion dollars between the two companies. If that sounds like a bad idea, blame Al Gore. More »

Truckers: Text War Spoilers?

We all know that texting while driving kills the world, but that means nothing to truckers: they're fighting prohibitive legislation because it will cost them money to pull over and check on-board computers. And because they like being fringe. [NYT]

David Pogue: 'I Am Not a Reporter, I Have Never Been To Journalism School'

David Pogue's taken fire from all sides: Both bloggers and the New York Times columnist's own public editor challenged the tech reviewer over his conflicts of interests. He's finally unloaded with both barrels, at friend and foe alike. More »

Legalizing Electric-Car Kingpin's 'Founder' Fetish

Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes to call himself "founder" of companies he didn't actually start. This weird fetish has never been fully safe and legal, until now: The real founder of Tesla Motors is dropping his lawsuit and granting permission. More »

Jealous Geeks in $2 Billion Wrestling Match Over Skype

How did a group of private investors snag Skype for $2 billion+ when big public corporations like Google were too scared to bid, thanks to lawsuits? With stolen computer nerd sorcery, allegedly. More »

Bitter Breakup Splits Tech's Biggest Boosters

It should be a happy day for Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. The tech nabobs just wrapped their latest TechCrunch 50 conference, which captivated venture capitalists and the press. But the moguls are locked in Northern California-Southern California civil war. More »

Steve Ballmer's Two Minutes of iPhone Hate

Microsoft's CEO seems determined to live out a career of comical self parody. Steve Ballmer, who suppposedly hurled a chair in an anti-Google tantrum, has acted out his iPhone rage in a Seattle stadium. How Big Brother can you get? More »

There Are No Winners in Perez Hilton and Demi Moore's Twitter Fight

Demi Moore's 15-year-old daughter Tallulah was snapped revealing some underage cleavage on hipster nightlife site The Cobrasnake. So, internet cockroach Perez Hilton posted it. Now they're going on about it on Twitter in a fight they both can only lose. More »

The Scariest Boss in Redmond

Chairman Bill Gates famously cursed out Microsoft programmers. CEO Steve Ballmer screams and throws chairs. But online chief Qi Lu is as subtle as he is lethal, a corporate terminator who will hunt Google endlessly until it is dead. More »

Apple Has a Big Back End

After kicking Google off its board, will Apple compete with the company on its home turf? Quite possibly: Apple's new server farm "would qualify as a big-ass data center," an official backend expert told Cult of Mac. OK then! (Pic)

Chess Wizards in Huge Online Sorcery Feud

They say bickering intensifies as stakes diminish; this helps explain the enmity engulfing the U.S. Chess Federation. A struggle over board seats turned into a flurry of lawsuits, all rooted in the following obscene and allegedly faked internet postings. More »