Microsoft to take stake in Facebook

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MICROSOFT will take a $US240 million ($267.66 million) stake in the wildly popular social-networking website Facebook as part of an expansion of the strategic alliance of the two firms, the companies said today.

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Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22645137-…

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The story is that FaceBook needs the money to act as a war chest to defend against expected legal action as it grows. Pretty insane set of circumstances.

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