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As I promised the missus I wouldn’t be tethered to the laptop via a mobile card, I have been hitting Starbucks each morning for some coffee and wireless.

Every now and again, a good song I am unfamiliar plays. I was getting up. walking tot he front, wheere there is a flat panel noting what was playing.

Then I noted buried on their (ATT) log in page. a section marked “Now Playing.” So I created my open pop up page by reducing the size of the page and keying on that part of their page:

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Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX), Coca-Cola (KO), Marketing and advertising, AT and T (T), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), Expedia Inc (EXPE), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE)

Facebook is making the biggest ad splash since Google, according to an article in the Financial Times.

Filed under: Industry, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), AT and T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Politics

Christine A. Varney heads up antitrust at the Department of Justice, and she's going hunting. She is the point person for a group consisting of the presidential administration and some Congressional Democrats that is looking to put the breaks on large companies in several industries.

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Google (GOOG) dominates the Internet search market, and it has been the fastest growing company around.  But now that regulators have pounced, the company is desperate to prove it's not that big after all.

Which is why it produced this little chart in its "See, We're Not Evil" presentation, in which it compares itself to Microsoft (MSFT), AT&T (ATT), Verizon (VZ), and IBM, See?  Google doesn't even come close to their revenue and employee size among other metrics.

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