Google CEO: Microsoft is main competitor, not Facebook or Apple
Outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt today refuted assertions that Facebook and Apple are the search giant's biggest competitors.
View ArticleTop Microsoft ad exec leaves for Facebook
Microsoft’s global advertising head, Carolyn Everson, is moving to Facebook after just eight months at the Redmond-based company, All Things Digital reports. Microsoft hired Everson, who was corporate...
View ArticleBing adds your friends’ Facebook ‘likes’ to search results
Microsoft today rolled out a feature for Bing that shows whether your Facebook friends have “liked” any search results that pop up for your query. For instance, if you search for “Seattle Thai food”...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft may sue to block ex-exec from Facebook job (ATD)
Perhaps emboldened by its recent success in enforcing non-compete agreements, Microsoft is considering legal action to block a former advertising executive from her new job at Facebook, All Things...
View ArticleGoogle +1: A ripoff of Bing’s Facebook integration?
Google on Wednesday unveiled +1, a new feature on the search engine that lets people easily recommend things they find to their friends. Sure sounds a lot like one of the Facebook features on...
View ArticleDo teens of the Facebook generation value privacy?
For years now, adults have been grumbling about kids these days and how they have no sense of privacy. Always posting everything to Facebook, sharing their lives on Twitter, bantering with friends on...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Watch out for phishing scams on Facebook
Every once and a while, one will pop up in your Facebook inbox or news feed – an interesting-looking link from one of your friends. You click on it, then up pops another Facebook-looking Web page that...
View ArticleBing expands Facebook search integration
It was three months ago that Microsoft integrated Facebook “likes” with Bing search results. Today, the company launched more features that use people’s Facebook connections to personalize their search...
View ArticleFacebook deploys Microsoft tool to fight child pornography
Facebook is the first company to use a tool from Microsoft that identifies known images of child pornography and remove them from the social network. The tool, called PhotoDNA, is software that...
View ArticleMicrosoft director, Netflix CEO joins Facebook board
The Associated Press reports: “Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it has named Reed Hastings, the CEO of online movie rental company Netflix Inc., to its board of directors. … Hastings, who founded...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg now richer than Steve Ballmer
Facebook was valued at an astounding $70 billion earlier this week when GSV Capital bought 225,000 shares at $29.28 each. For some perspective: Boeing’s market valuation was $53.5 billion this morning....
View ArticleReport: Facebook to launch Skype-powered, Seattle-developed video chat
Facebook next week will launch a new video-chat feature powered by Skype and developed at the social network’s Seattle office, according to several reports. TechCrunch first reported and Mashable has...
View ArticleFacebook launching Skype video chat, from Seattle office
Facebook today said it is launching a video-chat feature powered by Skype and developed at the social network’s Seattle office. The previously rumored service, which will roll out over the course of...
View ArticleWhat is socl.com? What is Microsoft’s project Tulalip?
I’m a bit skeptical of the speculation that Tulalip, the social-leaning service Microsoft Research accidentally published this week at the URL socl.com, is the company’s foray into traditional social...
View ArticleFacebook’s Seattle office, Zuckerberg, Gates and the ‘Microsoft effect’
It was just 10 months ago that Philip Su left Microsoft, where he’d worked for 12 years, to join a the small Seattle outpost of a young company named Facebook. In October, by the time he’d finished the...
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