Shares of Google get clobbered after first quarter financials disappoint Google today reported revenue of $8.58 billion for the first quarter, an increase of 27 percent compared to the same… Read More
Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’ Two days after Microsoft called Google out for “misleading” the U.S. government about a security certification for a Google product,… Read More
Nerd Notes: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More
Data: Bing, Yahoo gain on Google Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to… Read More
Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More
Early Microsoft partner HTC rides Android past new Microsoft partner Nokia Microsoft and HTC tied their fortunes together in the emerging smartphone market a decade ago, back when people were still… Read More
U.S. lets Google’s ITA deal fly, with some baggage The U.S. Justice Department and Google have reached a deal clearing the way for the search giant’s $700 million acquisition… Read More
Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More
Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets. A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… Read More
How Facebook’s new Seattle engineers put its mobile revamp months ahead Seattle is Facebook’s first major remote engineering base outside its Palo Alto HQ, so it’s a test case for future… Read More
Nerd Notes: Commodore Revived, Bill and Ted Return and Snake Makes a Fashion Statement Commodore USA revives the 64. LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this… Read More
Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely… Read More
Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag [Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More
Google’s April Fool’s Day joke, Gmail Motion, comes to life via a Kinect hack The April Fool’s Day joke from Google — Gmail Motion — may not be too far afield after all. Some… Read More
Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More
Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More
Microsoft filing antitrust complaint vs. Google in Europe Microsoft is back in the middle of an antitrust case in Europe, but this time it’s the one with the… Read More
Windows Phone says its apps are real, not padded What is it with these Microsoft groups feeling the need to publicly defend their numbers all of a sudden? The… Read More
Nerd Notes: Biz on Zuck, Skype in the Classroom and Noah Wyle +1 $500 Million: Too low for Twitter? Biz drops the juicy details about Zuckerberg’s courting (it happened in a car…) on Howard Stern. Nintendo announces the next console… Read More
Google +1: Does this put the Internet search titan back in the social search game? Can Google make Internet search more social? That’s the goal with +1, a new service that allows Google users to… Read More
Report: Windows Phone to add NFC mobile payments One of the biggest buzzwords in the mobile industry right now is NFC, or Near Field Communication — a short-range… Read More
Stats: Hotmail still on top worldwide; Gmail gets bigger While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been… Read More
Prediction: Windows Phone will top iPhone by 2015 A new study from the IDC research firm predicts that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will surpass the iPhone and Blackberry in… Read More
Hotmail gets interactive with Netflix, Posterous, LivingSocial Microsoft’s Hotmail team today will show how more companies plan to use its “Active Views” technology — interactive email messages… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: AT&T, T-Mobile and a wild week in tech This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We look back on one of the biggest weeks we can remember in technology… Read More
Google: More M&A deals are coming Maybe Google feels like it has $6 billion burning a hole in its pocket. A few months after Groupon turned… Read More
Firefox: Something fishy about Microsoft’s IE9 aquarium Since its earliest previews of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has been pointing to its IE9 Test Drive site for demos… Read More
Excerpt: Setback for Google in book-scanning case In the mood for some evening reading about the future of online books? Here’s the full text of the ruling… Read More
Apple hits adult ‘app store’ MiKandi with cease-and-desist over trademark Amazon.com isn’t the only company being targeted by Apple for using the phrase “app store” in conjunction with its Android… Read More
Google: Microsoft’s Android claims ‘threaten innovation’ Google itself hasn’t yet been named as a defendant in any of Microsoft’s patent litigation over Android, but the search… Read More
