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Facebook and Microsoft in 15 seconds or less

By Owen Thomas, 4:30 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007, 1,123 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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In case you missed the whole hullabaloo about Microsoft taking a $240 million stake in Facebook, CNBC has the 15-second version. Tech pundits with a bad case of blogorrhea could take notes from the cable network's brevity.

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