Google and Microsoft slobbering over Facebook
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Like rival lovers, Google and Microsoft are intensely courting Facebook as the social-networking upstart picks petals off a flower -- &quot;she loves me, she loves me not&quot; -- and tries to decide which of the two will be allowed to buy a minority stake in the company, according to press reports.
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Out Googling Google on bespoke scale Comment Should Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! go through, the combined company would face one very major infrastructure question - how far is it willing to go in the war against Google?â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Google and Microsoft are duking it out for developers' hearts and minds.  But is Amazon the wild card?
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InfoWorld - Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on theÂ online adsÂ it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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Microsoft Corp. has approached Facebook Inc. in recent weeks proposing an investment that would give Microsoft a 5% stake in the popular social-networking company, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 10--Google. MySpace. Facebook. YouTube. They're not just insanely popular phenomena: They also are businesses that require superpowerful computers distributing mountains of data in microseconds to eager users.
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For Google, buying a piece of Facebook would have been, well, nice. But for Microsoft, sealing the deal was an absolute necessity.
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Facebook.com reveals even more than its online exhibitionists want.
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In the last couple of months, we have seen Google invading the Microsoft territory with GMail and Google Desktop Search. Now Microsoft is responding.
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BREAKING NEWS - This afternoon, Microsoft won the apparent battle for an equity stake in social networking applications provider Facebook, making a $240 million equity investment in the company. In exchange, Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party supplier of Facebook's advertising platform.
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Microsoft is having big problems in the Search Engine Market. Their online search engine stands nowhere on popularity charts and now Google and Yahoo!
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Microsoft has the software. Yahoo! has the ad revenue. Together they can challenge Google. Among the likely winners: online advertisers.
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There&#39;s been a lot of gossip about the upcoming Google browser and its possible impact on Microsoft. It&#39;s hard to predict what will happen, but it won&#39;t surprise me if an all-out war between Google and Microsoft ensues.
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Vista tops list of tech disappointments... NYT and Henry Blodget weigh in on Google's threat to Microsoft... More people are 'Googling' themselves and more...
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. is trying to convince federal and state authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for the allegiance of personal computer users.
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Social networking site, Facebook, believed to be in negotiations with Microsoft.