Report: Google and Microsoft slobbering over Facebook
Like rival lovers, Google and Microsoft are intensely courting Facebook, as the social-networking upstart picks petals off a flower -- "she loves me, she loves me not" -- and tries to decide which of the two will be allowed to buy a minority stake in the company, according to press reports. Full story »
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