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Barnes & Noble wants U.S. to stop Microsoft’s Android patent campaign

Updated with Microsoft statement. Barnes & Noble is asking the U.S. Justice Department to examine Microsoft’s effort to use its… Read More

How to sell your startup to Google: Travel in first class between Seattle and the Valley

Entrepreneur Dan Shapiro –who sold Sparkbuy to Google back in May and merged Ontela with Photobucket in 2009 — offers… Read More

Zuckerberg on the tech ‘war’ with Amazon, Apple and Google

Mark Zuckerberg is more of a lover, than a fighter. After all, he doesn’t want to engage in an all-out… Read More

Google+ opens to businesses, with link to Google search

Google today announced the long-awaited debut of pages for businesses on Google+, looking to boost the functionality of its fledgling… Read More

Latest Windows Phone data: Nowhere to go but up … right?

The latest numbers from comScore Networks show Microsoft’s share of U.S. smartphone subscribers slipping again, to 5.6 percent for the… Read More

Friday Fun: How to make any web page ‘do a barrel roll’

By now many of you have probably heard of what happens when you type “do a barrel roll” into Google.… Read More

Chart: Majority of 18-to-44 year old mobile users own a smartphone

Well, the economy is in rough shape, and it’s still tough to find a job. But, somehow, more Americans are… Read More

Tech Moves: Sony vet hired at WildTangent; Keegan Hall joins Pirq; RescueTime and more

Mark Donohue, a former senior vice president of ad sales at Sony Digital, has joined WildTangent to oversee the Redmond… Read More

Who did it better? Microsoft Bing vs. Google on Halloween

The two major search engines, Google and Microsoft Bing (does Yahoo count anymore?) outdid themselves on Halloween this year. Google’s… Read More

Memo: Microsoft’s Ballmer finds an employee survey to love

Anonymous third-party surveys of Microsoft employees don’t always turn out so well for Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft this week came… Read More

Google+ expands with Apps, ‘Ripples,’ and photo effects

Google+ is still trying to find its niche as an alternative to Facebook, with mixed results. But the company announced… Read More

Why we’re not using Google+ to reach consumers, so far

Guest commentary: Since Google+ launched in June of this year, two questions have been on everyone’s mind in the digital… Read More

Microsoft chart: Android patent deals outpacing disputes

Announcing its latest patent agreement with an Android device maker, Microsoft over the weekend released a series of statistics and charts making… Read More

Another day, another Android licensing deal for Microsoft

Microsoft today announced its 10th Android patent licensing agreement in the past 18 months, sealing a deal with Taiwan-based electronics… Read More

News flash: Google, Microsoft don’t like each other’s phones

Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t hold back when asked for his take on… Read More

Ballmer says Microsoft is ‘winning, winning, winning’ in rivalry with Google Apps

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company is consistently beating Google in online productivity and communications applications, a market where… Read More

Microsoft idea: Search the Internet like a celebrity

How would Megan Fox search? Microsoft is seeking a patent on the concept of applying a “persona” to Internet search… Read More

Twitter handles 250M Tweets a day, targets everyone on planet

Twitter’s growth over the past few years has been nothing short of staggering. And now we’re getting a closer look… Read More

Hiring boom continues at Google as shares soar on profit and revenue increases

Google engineer Steve Yegge may think some things are messed up at Google. But the search giant continues to deliver,… Read More

Classic rant by Google engineer rips apart Google + and describes Jeff Bezos as a micromanager

I’ve never met Steve Yegge. But after reading the Google engineer’s 4,771-word rant — in which he slashes everything from… Read More

Microsoft signs Quanta deal, ninth Android patent pact in 18 months

Microsoft just announced another Android patent licensing deal, this one with Quanta Computer — saying that the agreement “provides broad… Read More

Google holds steady with 65 percent of U.S. search queries

Google continues to hold a dominant lead in the Internet search business, with two reports out this week highlighting the… Read More

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

Reporting from TechNW: If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be… Read More

Google’s Seattle site director Bershad to take post in Russia

Maybe the cold, dark Seattle winters are really getting to Brian Bershad. So, the 46-year-old has decided to take matters… Read More

EU approves Microsoft’s $8.5 billion Skype acquisition

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of online communications company Skype just won approval from European regulators, clearing the way for the… Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues Motorola over six patents

Motorola has been sued for patent infringement by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan… Read More

Google co-founders’ kids can’t avoid Microsoft technology

The families of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been using their Google+ and Facebook accounts to build buzz for Bumble Los Altos,… Read More

San Diego startup SweetLabs picks Seattle for new office

We’ve been writing a lot about California tech juggernauts establishing operations in Seattle, from Facebook to Salesforce.com to Zynga. But it… Read More

How Amazon’s new tablet signals the start of next generation

Guest Analysis: With the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon has now made the long term tablet business an interesting… Read More

Chart of the Week: IBM > MSFT

Apple made headlines when it surpassed Microsoft in market value, the stock market’s measure of a company’s overall worth. And… Read More