<![CDATA[A Washington Bank Shot -- How A Telephone Company Lobbyist Works To Weaken Google]]>

1.0 link 65780 <![CDATA[A Washington Bank Shot -- How A Telephone Company Lobbyist Works To Weaken Google]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/a-washington-bank-shot-ho_b_65780.html A Senate Subcommittee will hold a hearing Thursday on Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, and what the deal would mean for the online advertising industry. This is a complex transaction, with lots of issues of market competition and privacy to be worked out. But one witness isn't coming to the hearing to fret about the ad market or the dangers to consumer privacy. He's only coming to tarnish Google at the behest of other parties. Guess which ones?

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