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Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google
4:15AM Ryan Tate | 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 »
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Sluggish Microsoft To Fire Hundreds This Morning
2:57AM Ryan Tate | Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant’s growth has slowed considerably. Conference rooms are already reserved. More »
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Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
3:41AM Ryan Tate | It’s been 10 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 »
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The Retreat Of King Twitter
3:30AM Ryan Tate | 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 »
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AP’s Betting The Farm Microsoft Will Crush Google
5:48AM Ryan Tate | 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 »
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Selling Your Tweets To The Enemy
3:30AM Ryan Tate | 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 »
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Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
4:41AM Ryan Tate | Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 7, is available to the public October 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 »
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Steve Ballmer’s Two Minutes Of iPhone Hate
2:11AM Ryan Tate | 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 »
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After All That Drama, Google China Loses Leader
7:37PM Andrew Belonsky | 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 »
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