With Microsoft out of the hunt for the Yahoo! prize — will Facebook be its consolation prize? The Wall Street Journal reports today that Microsoft put out feelers to the hot social networking site to see if acquisition talks made sense. Neither MSFT or FB officials are talking. The software giant already has a $240 million take in Facebook – which tags the overall value at about $15 billion. (Here’s a Reuters write-up of the WSJ piece.)
I can just see it now: Soft Face. No?


