Billion-Dollar Patent Sale of the Day

The tech world is abuzz over Facebook's $1 billion buyout of Instagram, but it's not even the biggest acquisition a major tech company has made today. Microsoft paid AOL $1.056 billion in cash for 800 patents after "a competitive auction process."

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