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Hot on the heels of the MySpace-Google deal comes news from the NY Times that Facebook have inked a three year agreement with Microsoft, making adCenter the exclusive provider of banner ads and sponsored links on the site. The deal is quite clearly a reaction to the MySpace ad deal, since the serious talks only began last week. No financial details are being given, which prevents a comparison to Google's $900 million, but Steve Berkowitz of Microsoft has said the move is “not comparable to the MySpace deal because we focused on the right economics for both parties". Uh-huh.