Facebook Partnership

Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that the two companies would expand their advertising partnership and that Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation. Under the expanded strategic alliance, Microsoft will be the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook, and will begin to sell advertising for Facebook internationally in addition to the United States.

This deal is a major advertising syndication win for Microsoft and an enormous vote of confidence from our largest advertising partner. Microsoft continues to grow share of the global online advertising opportunity—currently worth $40 billion and growing rapidly—increasing the volume of advertising partnerships.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/oct07/10-24FacebookPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2201992/microsoft-beats-google-facebook

Also for all you SQL folk - read on to find out about FQL

http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?doc=fql