Microsoft Yahoo Merger

Google wins approval for buying DoubleClick by convincing the European Commission that its planned merger would not give it a dominant position.

Making Google’s own antitrust arguments against the Microsoft Yahoo merger, less convincing. A voice in favor of the merger comes from Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle who is reported to by the NY Times as saying “It’s bizarre that there’s a stigma to buying something rather than building it yourself.”

Internet Activity

I suggest reading a disturbing article in the Seattle Times about how “Web companies are learning more than ever before the gritty details of what people search for and do on the Internet”.

iPhone

The latest country to have access to the iPhone is Ireland as reported by iPhone World. Has Apple really unlocked the iPhone with the release of Apple iPhone SDK, or as reported by the Telegraph, will applications still be controlled very tightly. As I have mentioned before the biggest mistake Apple made with the Apple II and Mac was to retain control and not open up the PC’s to the outside world.