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Forget the privacy-infringing, faux-not-evil Google Beast. The real beast, growing rapidly and devouring everything in its path, is Facebook. Facebook huge right now. Super-huge. Almost Google-huge. CEO-bitch “CEO,bitch” Mark Zuckerberg is hailed as a modern-day DaVinci. Even old fogeys like Robert Scoble are transitioning to Facebook, because it’s as cool as iPhone. A cottage industry, complete with eager VCs has sprung up around Facebook Applications, and startups rise and fall on Facebook apps alone.

And now, Facebook is jumping into the acqusistions game, buying up a startup before it even launches and outbidding Google. When you outbid Google’s billion-dollar cash reserves, you ‘re not fooling around. You mean business. Read more »