* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Google Facing EU DoubleClick Objections
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>| The extended review initiated by the EU pushed that date out to possibly as
>| far as April 2nd, after deciding in an initial investigation they needed more
>| time to review the case.
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> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/01/google-facing-eu-doubleclick-objections
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> So, Microsoft offers to buy a /rival/ for $40+ billion, but it also attacked
> Google's planned DoubleClick acquisition (just over $3 billion), **despite**
> the fact that Microsoft offered almost double that amount for DoubleClick?
All's fair in business and war.
> Not a hoax: Microsoft offers $44.6bn for Yahoo!
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>| When from 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live) ? as all the others are
>| mostly jokes ? you manage to only have 2 (Google and YahooLive!), I don't
>| care whether they call it "oligopoly" or "monopoly".
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>| The world is defenseless in front of the corporate greed, and we'll end in a
>| world with no alternative choices. What's funny, the name of this Orwellian
>| world is not "communism", but "corporative capitalism", supposedly in
>| a "democratic free world".
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> http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/01/12/42/32-not-a-hoax-microsoft-offers-44-6
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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