This is the Internet age. We don't have to wait for general counsels to drop their bon mots before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, because they are already posted online.
Upon review of the testimony by David Drummond of Google, and Brad Smith of Microsoft, Google thinks its proposed purchase of DoubleClick represents a routine business development, one that isn't worthy of all the kerfuffle raised by privacy advocates and antitrust regulators.
Microsoft sees it as an anti-competitive move that would be akin to arming polar bears with invisibility cloaks and Desert Eagle .50AE handguns. Competitors, and normal people with privacy concerns, would be the equivalent of newborns left out on the frozen tundra.
"If Google is allowed to proceed with this merger, it will also obtain a dominant gateway position over the other main type of online advertising – non-search ads. Today Google and DoubleClick are the two largest competitors in this area. Combined, Google will account for nearly 80 percent of all spending on non-search ads," Smith said in his
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