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"deploy its market power to squelch competition."

"One company's past is not another company's future," he says.

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This is kinda reminding me of the banking hearings. I imagine we may see that quote again.

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3.17pm: says they had "a long conversation years ago about how not to be evil" if Google became big. "We think we have done the things that would be appropriate," he says.

They have market power. Their market power is expanding. Andoid is on more than 50% of mobile's shipped in the US today. "Is there a problem? Yes there is a problem if Google is engaged in improper conduct," says Barnett.

, founder of Yelp is up now.

Not being in Google is tantamount to not existing, he says. So when Google said it wanted Yelp's reviews for free, they had to provide them. Now it's playing nicely - could that be because the government is investigating possible monopoly abuses, he asks.

4.17pm:

Stoppelman

Franken has said "Microsoft." Eric Schmidt avoided saying the dreaded M word earlier. Franken says it's not enough to say "trust us." He asks Google's pal if there should be a technical panel to look at Google just as there was with Microsoft. Are we heading for a full on anti-trust inquiry? And not an antirust inquiry - which as my colleague

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Aerospace and press baron Arnaud Lagardère's controversial video and pictures with girlfriend Jade Foret become online hit

It was the first time the French business world, normally highly discreet about its private life, had seen a chief executive so publicly cavorting. Some called it "economic suicide" for Lagardère, who heads the eponymous Lagardère media group, which publishes Elle and Paris Match, and has a stake in the European aerospace and defence group EADS.

Lagardère's stint in the top chair at EADS is important for Sarkozy. The men's friendship has already come under question when Lagardère's press group was seen to punish journalists who sought to run uncomfortable stories about Sarkozy, such as the scoop that his then wife Cecilia had not voted in the second round of the presidential election in 2007. Some even speculated that Lagardère's public display of love for a supermodel was styled on Sarkozy's relationship with Carla Bruni. The president is reported to be perplexed by Lagardère's public display of affection.

You're going to tell us more about QNX plans in October, and we can wait until then. And I'll take you at your word today that you're waiting until everything's perfect to release it. Then again, you seem to think you did that with Torch, which, nope!

Quit It With That BBM Music Crap

And hey, you're still making lots of money! Sure, you're not making it as fast as you used to, but $4 billion of revenue is a lot of Curves. And there was still $329 million of net income in there which, even though it's less than half the profits of last year's analogous quarter, is still enough to fund some solid R&D.

Last night the TechCrunch Disrupt conference climaxed with the  announcement of the winning startup, the company who'd convinced a panel of five TechCrunch Disrupt judges - and Michael Arrington - that it was the most deserving winner among 31 promising but as-yet-unlaunched startups.

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And while we're on the subject of the US government punishing a company for retaliating against whistleblowers, we should probably mention that the very same federal government has been going out of its way lately to try to imprison government whistleblowers. Apparently, it's okay when the federal government does it, but not when anyone else does it.