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Microsoft has completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, but startup Tango says it will be the first video-calling application on phones that run Microsoft’s updated Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango, when the devices are released in coming weeks. (more)

Technology giants Microsoft and Google are considering putting in a bid for Yahoo. However, the two firms are not interested in a takeover; they would rather provide financial support, according to reports. (more)

Google Inc. (GOOG) is considering providing financing for an acquisition of Yahoo! Inc. by another company or a group of bidders, according to a person who has been briefed on the matter. (more)

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company’s focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp., according to a biography of Jobs. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s Windows franchise regained some of its vigor during the company’s latest quarter, but that might not be enough to overcome the perception that the world’s largest software maker is being outmaneuvered by nimble rivals whose fortunes aren’t tied to the personal computer. (more)

Microsoft formally closed its acquisition of Skype on Friday, meaning the video-chat service is now a division of the software giant. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced a partnership with companies including Best Buy and Microsoft to offer free computer training around the country. (more)

Responding to complaints over the Metro-based Windows 8 Start screen, Microsoft is still trying to defend the new user interface but has promised to make some tweaks to appease unhappy users. (more)

Google engineer posted an internal memo on Google + that was mistakenly shared publicly – opps wrong settting. (more)

President Obama’s class-warfare assault on successful businessmen and investors appears to have spurred members of Congress to launch an assault on Google because it has been too successful. Depressingly, however, these attacks are not limited to Democrats, but include among their ranks so-called conservative Republicans. (more)

At Microsoft’s company meeting on Friday, CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t do his famous monkey dance, he didn’t shout “I love this company” and, when he did speak, many of his employees started emptying out of their Safeco Field seats. (more)

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft, three major technology companies that have traditionally competed for digital advertising revenue, have created an unusual partnership in which they will sell ads for one another. (more)

With potential buyers circling above, Yahoo, the once-mighty online empire, is preparing to sell. (more)

One of the web’s most widely used technologies is going to be absent from some versions of Windows 8. (more)

The first email hit TechCrunch’s tip line at 11:32 EDT. Others quickly followed saying the same thing: major Microsoft cloud services are down worldwide. Hotmail, Skydrive, and Microsoft’s recently launched Google Docs competitor, Office 365 were all unaccessable. Users took to twitter and our tip line to express their rage, but then approximately four hours after going offline, the services were restored with little explanation for their downtime from Microsoft. (more)

Google may not have had much of a choice when it came to buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. If it didn’t, someone else would have and that would have put the company in an even bigger patent hole. (more)

Earlier today, Google came out swinging. Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the patent issue, Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, wrote a blog post calling out several of Google’s rivals for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy Android. Chief among the rivals called out was Microsoft. Drummond noted that the software giant had been getting in bed with other rivals to hurt Google. (more)

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, will become the next chief information officer for the federal government — a bigger, more policy-oriented technology job than any he held at the software giant. (more)

Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking service, is offering free video calls over its site through a partnership with Skype Technologies SA. (more)

A few weeks ago Microsoft bought Skype for over $8 billion. And a lot of people are trying to figure out what they intend to do with this new technology. (more)