Microsoft chief to spend $2.5B fighting Google

Published Friday July 25th, 2008

Internet Facebook Inc. will run Microsoft ads with its searches, expanding on a deal for other promotions

Dina Bass and Amy Thomson
Bloomberg

Microsoft Corp. chief executive officer Steve Ballmer plans to spend at least US$2.5 billion to compete with Google Inc. because the opportunity in online advertising is too big to ignore.

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