Software giant agrees to purchase 800 patents for roughly £800,000 each
Microsoft is to spend $1bn (£600m) purchasing 800 patents from AOL, which equates to roughly $1.3m (£800,000) per patent. The patents mostly relate to search, email, instant messaging and online...
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