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Monopolies can be curbed by cartels.
Monopoly feeds on itself , let’s see if it can destroy itself.
US Government has a choice, to support Monopoly or cartels.
Story:
WASHINGTON—Several popular online travel companies are joining forces to oppose Google Inc.’s proposed $700 million purchase of ITA Software Inc., the leading provider of flight data, saying the deal would give it too much sway over the travel sector.
Expedia Inc., Kayak.com, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix Inc.—which operate half-a-dozen leading online travel sites—are forming a coalition called FairSearch.org to persuade the Justice Department to block Google’s latest deal.
The companies are also launching a lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill, making the case to members of Congress that the deal would allow Google to dominate the online air-travel market by giving it control over the software that powers many of its rivals in the travel search business
Google responds that buying the service will help it provide more useful information to consumers when they search for flight data.
But opponents of the deal worry that Google could limit access to ITA’s software, which is used by many of the flight-comparison sites operated by the members of the newly formed coalition. Expedia also runs Hotwire and TripAdvisor. Sabre runs Travelocity, while Kayak runs SideStep in addition to Kayak.com.
Related.
Now online media take on Google.
Seems Google is under attack just as Microsoft was some months back.
