The Coming Search Engine Media Wars

News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. More »

Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7

A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? More »

Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food

Don Dodge used to be an official evangelist for Microsoft, hyping the company's software and insulting its competitor Google. Then Microsoft laid him off, and Google hired him. Cue the bitter, flip-flopping blog post in which Dodge loudly switches sides. More »

Lymphoma Diagnosis for Paul Allen, Microsoft's Least Lucky Co-Founder

Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. It's more tough news for the Microsoft co-founder, who has overcome more than his share of health problems before. More »

Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google

For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »

Ãœber-Programmer Ditches Yahoo Over 'Lame' Microsoft Deal

No one likes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft. Wall Street wanted more up front money; tech elites called it an abdication, a "shame" and "seppuku." Now Yahoo is losing a programming icon over the embarrassing arrangement. 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 »

Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning

Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant's growth has slowed. Conference rooms are already reserved. If you learn anything about the reboot, email us. (UPDATE: Social networking hit.) 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 »

The Retreat of King Twitter

With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More »

AP's Betting the Farm Microsoft Will Crush Google

The Associated Press, self-declared enemy of internet evildoers, says it has seen some awesome new Microsoft search technology — top secret stuff — that will return its content to a position of total world domination. Google is so history. More »

Selling Your Tweets to the Enemy

Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that cash-hungry Twitter is already selling access to its "firehose" of data. 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 »

The Home Where Microsoft Got Reamed

Microsoft is notorious for sticking it to enemies and business partners alike, especially among the tech elite of Silicon Valley. How satisfying for them, then, to hear how a hometown boy took the company to the cleaners. More »

Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7

Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, is available to the public Oct. 22. So why not host an awkward launch party for a perfectly diverse group of your friends? Microsoft made an unbearable video tutorial to get you going. 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 »

After All That Drama, Google China Loses Leader

Poor Google! The company's Chinese expansion hasn't been easy: they've been shamed for giving into government censors and continue to play second-fiddle to a state-supported competitor. And now they've lost their regional leader. What will become of the company? 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 »

Who Is On Team 'Screw Google?'

Microsoft convenes regular "Screw Google" meetings on Capitol Hill, Daily Finance reports, as part of an effort to tear down rival Google's image. Who would want to help Microsoft do this? The better question is who wouldn't? More »