By combining the strengths of our companies, we can deliver an efficient and highly competitive offering for our customers. Our complementary assets will give us increased talent and scale to compete in the markets of search and online advertising, and pioneer new innovations in the areas of video, mobile services, online commerce, and social media.?
That is all well and good. Microsoft certainly hasn?t been seen in such glowing terms of late. But I, for one, am always sad to see a major chunk of any industry too much controlled by a handful of big dogs. We have seen what a lack of competition has brought us in the oil industry, cable TV provision, and utility services. We should hope the Antitrust issues will be carefully scrutinized before this hostile takeover bid is rubber stamped.
A hallmark of American industry has always been fierce and fair competition on the open market. Whenever it has ceased to exist in any quarter, the consumer is inevitably the loser.
Good, bad, or indifferent?it sure makes things interesting here in the cyber-world, doesn?t it?
That?s the Word on the Information Super Highway.
Veracity Jones