Updated 2:35 pm ET, Monday, April 23
Facebook just can’t stop making news in the run up to its initial public offering: On Monday, the world’s largest social network announced that it was purchasing 650 various software patents for a cool $550 million in cash from Microsoft, which had in turn just purchased those very patents, plus hundreds more, from AOL.
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