Josh Polhans's List: FB_MS_Patent_Deal

We have a really good relationship with Microsoft," Zuckerberg said. "Now that you [Skype] are owned by Microsoft, that gives us the sense of stability that it's going to be with a company we can trust--that we know we have a longstanding relationship with."

The companies have been working together closely for years now. Back in 2007, Microsoft took a $240 million equity stake in Facebook to form a strat

The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion. So that comes out to less than a 2 percent stake for Microsoft, which is much smaller than 5 percent stake that was bandied about earlier.