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• Facebook’s patent purchases simplified
  It was revealed today by Facebook that they’d be picking up nearly 1,000 patents, patent applications, and...
  4/23/2012 4:53pm
• Facebook buys Microsoft patents
  Facebook is paying Microsoft $550m (£341m) for some of the patents it recently bought from AOL - it is...
  4/23/2012 4:36pm
• Facebook to Pay Microsoft $550M for AOL Patents
  Facebook on Monday continued its latest spending spree by agreeing to pay Microsoft about $550 million for...
  4/23/2012 4:15pm
• Microsoft sells over half of its $1 billion AOL patent portfolio to Facebook
  Microsoft has signed a deal with Facebook to sell the social networking site $550 million worth of patents...
  4/23/2012 4:00pm
• Microsoft sells over half of its $1 billion AOL patent portfolio to Facebook
  Microsoft has signed a deal with Facebook to sell the social networking site $550 million worth of patents...
  4/23/2012 4:00pm
• The $550M Patent Trade Off: From AOL to Microsoft to Facebook
  Microsoft and Facebook have reached an important agreement today that gives the social network access to a...
  4/23/2012 3:40pm
• New Facebook patents cover IM, search
  The 650 patents that Facebook acquired from Microsoft are “web-related” said a source with knowledge of...
  4/23/2012 3:21pm
• New Facebook patents cover IM, search
  The 650 patents that Facebook acquired from Microsoft are “web-related” said a source with knowledge of...
  4/23/2012 3:21pm
• Facebook to pay Microsoft $550M for AOL patents
  Facebook on Monday continued its latest spending spree by agreeing to pay Microsoft about $550 million for...
  4/23/2012 2:18pm
• Facebook Strikes Microsoft Deal for Newly-Bought AOL Patents
  (Reuters) – Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold by...
  4/23/2012 2:12pm
• Facebook Buys Microsoft Patents
  Facebook is paying $550 million to Microsoft for some of the patents the software giant recently bought from...
  4/23/2012 1:49pm
• Craze continues: AOL patents change hands from Microsoft to Facebook
  Happy Monday, here’s some patent news to start off the tech week. A couple of weeks after Microsoft...
  4/23/2012 1:34pm
• Facebook and Microsoft Ink $550 Million Patent Deal
  Facebook has agreed to acquire up to 650 or so of the patents that Microsoft obtained from AOL in an auction...
  4/23/2012 1:26pm
• Facebook to buy 650 AOL patents from Microsoft
  Facebook is set to buy a large number of patents that Microsoft recently acquired acquire through an AOL...
  4/23/2012 1:20pm
• Facebook And Microsoft Announce $550 Million Patent Deal
  Facebook and Microsoft are partnering up for $550 million patent deal. Earlier this month, Microsoft picked...
  4/23/2012 1:15pm
• Microsoft and Facebook strike deal over AOL patents
  On Monday Facebook agreed to buy a portion of the patents Microsoft recently acquired from AOL. Facebook will...
  4/23/2012 1:15pm
• Facebook expands arsenal with 650 patents from Microsoft, license to hundreds more
  Facebook will purchase about 650 former-AOL patents from Microsoft for about $550 million, the company...
  4/23/2012 1:13pm
• Facebook Shells Out the M&A Dollars This Month
  Facebook is on a bit of a purchasing binge. Getty Images Facebook has spent $1.55 billion this month alone on...
  4/23/2012 1:13pm
• Facebook is Buying Half a Billion-Worth of AOL Patents from Microsoft
  The patent war is getting ridiculous but, until the bubble bursts, patents are now fetching dizzying...
  4/23/2012 1:11pm
• Microsoft shows patent-war newcomers how it's done with AOL deal
  In one smooth move, Microsoft is pocketing $550 million by selling hundreds of patents it bought from AOL to...
  4/23/2012 1:10pm
• Facebook Buys Most Of The AOL Patents From Microsoft That It Bought Just Weeks Ago
  You may recall that, a few weeks ago, Microsoft bought all of AOL's patents for about a billion dollars. Last...
  4/23/2012 1:10pm
• YAHOO FIRES BACK: Paying $550 Million For Microsoft Patents, Facebook Just Validated Our Lawsuit (AOL, YHOO)
  Earlier today, Facebook bought 600 patents from Microsoft for $550 million. Facebook has long collected...
  4/23/2012 1:09pm
• Rather Than Pay Off Yahoo, Facebook Built A Fortress 1400 Patents Strong
  Facebook had a choice to make: With just 56 patents to its name at the start of 2012 it could pay its way out...
  4/23/2012 1:04pm
• Microsoft and Facebook strike deal over AOL patents
  Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in...
  4/23/2012 12:57pm
• Bits: Facebook Arms for Patent Fight With $550 Million Deal
  Less than two weeks after Microsoft paid AOL more than $1 billion for a trove of its patents, Microsoft is...
  4/23/2012 12:42pm
• Facebook Joins Patent Fray with $550 Million Microsoft Deal
  There?s a new patent powerhouse in town: Facebook. The social network is spending $550 million to acquire 650...
  4/23/2012 12:38pm
• In Pricey Microsoft Patent Deal, Facebook Delivers Another Smackdown to Yahoo Lawsuit
  When I wrote that Facebook was going to play rough after Yahoo sued it for patent infringement earlier this...
  4/23/2012 12:36pm
• Microsoft To Sell Some AOL Patents To Facebook For $550M
  Microsoft, which recently agreed to pay $1 billion for a portfolio of patents from AOL, today said it will...
  4/23/2012 12:36pm
• Microsoft and Facebook Strike Deal Over AOL Patents
  Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in...
  4/23/2012 12:30pm
• Microsoft wanted to partner with Facebook on patent purchase all along, but AOL auction wouldn’t allow it
  Microsoft announced today that it will be selling hundreds of patents to Facebook, a sign that it wants to...
  4/23/2012 12:21pm
• Facebook will buy 650 AOL patents from Microsoft
  Facebook has struck a deal with Microsoft to obtain most of the patents Microsoft is acquiring from AOL....
  4/23/2012 12:21pm
• Facebook will buy 650 AOL patents from Microsoft
  Facebook has struck a deal with Microsoft to obtain most of the patents Microsoft is acquiring from AOL....
  4/23/2012 12:21pm
• Microsoft sells AOL patents to Facebook for $550M
  Microsoft has agreed to sell some of its recently purchased AOL patents to Facebook for $550 million.
  4/23/2012 12:18pm
• Microsoft and Facebook Align Further With Patent Deal
  Less than two weeks after Microsoft paid AOL more than $1 billion for a trove of its patents, Microsoft is...
  4/23/2012 12:18pm
• Facebook buys $550m patent defence from Microsoft
  Facebook is buying a portfolio of 650 web technology patents from Microsoft for $550m, as part of an effort...
  4/23/2012 12:17pm
• Microsoft selling some AOL patents to Facebook
  Two weeks after Microsoft bought $1.1 billion in patents from AOL, Facebook is getting a piece of the action.
  4/23/2012 12:14pm
• Scott Thompson's First Big Move At Yahoo Is Turning Into A Disaster (YHOO, AOL, MSFT)
  New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's first big move was to try to shake down Facebook with a number of...
  4/23/2012 11:31am
• Microsoft and Facebook announce $550 million patent deal
  Microsoft and Facebook on Monday announced a $550 million patent agreement in which the social networking...
  4/23/2012 11:30am
• Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash
  Although Facebook didn’t buy AOL’s patent portfolio the other week — it was gobbled up by Microsoft for...
  4/23/2012 11:30am
• Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash
  Although Facebook didn’t buy AOL’s patent portfolio the other week — it was gobbled up by Microsoft for...
  4/23/2012 11:30am
• Microsoft to sell 650 patents to Facebook
  Microsoft and Facebook will be swapping patents for cash to the tune of 550 million dollars. Microsoft...
  4/23/2012 11:28am
• Facebook paying Microsoft $550 million for 650 patents, Ballmer clicks 'like'
  Microsoft has agreed to sell on around 650 patents to Facebook in a deal worth $550 million. The Haüs of...
  4/23/2012 11:25am
• Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550M
  The social network, closing in on what should be a mammoth IPO, is fattening up its patent war chest "to...
  4/23/2012 11:23am
• Facebook to buy AOL patents from Microsoft for $550 million
  Facebook is paying Microsoft $550 million for a portion of the patents that Microsoft recently bought from...
  4/23/2012 11:22am
• Facebook Buys $550 Million in Patents From Microsoft
  Facebook has signed an agreement to acquire $550 million in patents from Microsoft, the companies announced...
  4/23/2012 11:21am
• Facebook and Microsoft reach $550m deal over AOL patents
  Microsoft and Facebook have announced an agreement that would see Facebook making use of some of...
  4/23/2012 11:14am
• Facebook acquires AOL patents from Microsoft
  Facebook announced today that it will pay $550 million to Microsoft for the right to 650 patents and patent...
  4/23/2012 11:14am
• Facebook acquires AOL patents from Microsoft
  Facebook announced today that it will pay $550 million to Microsoft for the right to 650 patents and patent...
  4/23/2012 11:13am
• Microsoft, Facebook strike deal over AOL patent portfolio
  Microsoft gives Facebook the right to purchase — for $550 million cash — a portion of the patent...
  4/23/2012 11:12am
• With Yahoo lawsuit looming and IPO coming soon, Facebook buys $550M in patents from Microsoft (AOL)
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Facebook is paying Microsoft $550 million for access to 650 patents, All Things...
  4/23/2012 11:10am
• MICROSOFT IS SELLING PATENTS TO FACEBOOK FOR $550 MILLION (MSFT, AOL, YHOO)
  Facebook is buying 600 patents from Microsoft for $550 million in cash, the companies just announced. The...
  4/23/2012 11:01am