• By Owen Thomas
    Nov 4, 2008 10:40 PM 1,847
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    Microsoft's Facebook millions paid back with Google election map

    What does $240 million get you these days? That's what Microsoft invested in Facebook, but the software giant hasn't gotten much love in return. On election night, whose online maps did Facebook use? Google's.

    Which goes to show you that money can't buy you love. Literally — I suspect that's what motivated this slap in the face, inadvertent or not, to Facebook's investor. Dave Morin, Facebook's senior platform egotist, is dating Google Maps marketer Brittany Bohnet, who's been working on the search engine's voting-data projects.


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