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Microsoft in talks to buy Facebook stake

By Brad Stone and Andrew Ross Sorkin

San Francisco, September 24 - Some people laughed at Mark E. Zuckerberg when he reportedly turned down a $900 million offer last year for Facebook, the social networking Web site he founded three and a half years ago.

But Microsoft, Google and several funds are considering investments in the fast-growing site, according to people with knowledge of the talks, that could give the start-up a value of more than $10 billion.

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