Microsoft is attempting to see if Facebook has any interest in being purchased by the software company after it abandoned its bid to buy Yahoo.
According to the WSJ Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, to see if it would be interested in being acquired.
Last October, Microsoft bought a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the social networking site at $15 billion. An unnamed source says there are no active talks between the two companies.
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