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I don't think they did that directly, although Google has a financial leverage on Mozilla (default search engine payments).

It was sufficient to do what they usually do - acquire Feedburner, then quietly make Live Bookmarks obsolete by promoting Google Reader while making LB a "hardcore nerd-only feature", and then making Google Reader obsolete, after it was integrated into Google News wrapped by algorithmic and paid display.