Microsoft and Facebook

ALTHOUGH MOST TECH news sweeps right by me at the moment (see Flickr photostream for the main distraction), my FreeNews client told my P910i that something significant was brewing around Facebook, the online social network where all of my students (and every Microsoftie I know) are establishing an academically-accessible toehold. Microsoft's overtures may result in an investment of $300m in Facebook but more importantly, if Microsoft succeeds in beating both Yahoo! and Google to a meaningful investment, it means Google will probably press ahead on its Facebook-killing strategy.

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Kevin Delaney -- "Microsoft Fires Volley at Google in Ad Battle"
Charlene Li -- "Facebook: Is it worth $10bn?"

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