1. Facebook and Google haven’t exactly seen eye to eye, and now the battle seems to have turned nasty : Facebook hired a PR firm to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, with an angle that Google was invading user privacy. Facebook has now, seemingly, confirmed it hired Burson-Marsteller, on the grounds it thinks Google’s really invading privacy, and is unfairly using Facebook’s data to fuel its own social ambitions.
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