Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
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Microsoft buys a $240m stake in the social networking site Facebook, beating rival Google
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Beating out Google in a hotly contested advertising deal, Microsoft announces it is making a $240 million investment in Facebook, valuing the social network at $15 billion.
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a minority equity stake in Facebook in a deal that values the social networking Web site at $15 billion.
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Microsoft said Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a small slice of Facebook in a deal that values the red-hot social networking website at $15 billion.
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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 Corp. has  agreed to pay 94 million yuan ($12.3 million) for a stake in  Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., a major maker of televisions  and electrical appliances, the Chinese company said on Monday.
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Microsoft's $240 million investment is much smaller than the rumored $750 million that Facebook sought. Why the difference? Epicenter's Terrence Russell analyzes the deal.
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Microsoft is mulling an investment of up to 5.0 percent in the social networking site Facebook, a move that could set the stage for confrontation with rival Google, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Microsoft Corp on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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Facebook will sell a $240 million minority stake to Microsoft, which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.
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Facebook Inc., the fast growing  Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has  acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the  co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox.
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Privately held social networking  site Facebook Inc. said on Thursday it has acquired Internet  startup Parakey, run by the co-founders of Web browser Mozilla  Firefox, for an undisclosed sum.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc.
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Facebook and Microsoft Corp on  Wednesday said the world's largest software maker will become  the exclusive provider of banner advertising and sponsored  links on the social networking Web site as part of a strategic  alliance.
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These days, numbers just seem to blur together. Microsoft is thinking about paying $500 million for 5 percent of Facebook, which would make that company worth $10 billion. VMware, in which parent company EMC recently sold a stake to the public, is currently valued at $30 billion (that's just for VMware, not the whole of EMC).
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SHANGHAI, China  - Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay 94 million yuan ($12.3 million) for a stake in Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., a major maker of televisions and electrical appliances, the Chinese company said on Monday.
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The two companies confirm their partnership, with Microsoft taking a $240 million stake in Facebook as well as gaining the right to sell ads for Facebook internationally.