By Susan Angel

Microsoft and Facebook announced a partnership on Wednesday which will give Software Giant anaccess to public Facebook data to show it as part of Bing search result.

For example if a user will search on Bing for information about a movie, he/she will get related links shared by his/her friends in Facebook in addition to regular web search result. With the merger, the two companies intend to fight a common enemy: Google.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, noted that the action announced on Wednesday only deepened the partnership with Microsoft. In 2007, Microsoft paid $240 million for $1.8% stakes of the social network. Since then, the two companies worked together for multiple features of their products.

The Trade Commission today unanimously approved the acquisition of AdMob by Google, in an operation of 750 million dollars.

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