Taplin, Jonathan. “Is It Time to Break Up Google?” The New York Times.
Other tech companies, old and new, big and bigger, are losing
relevance. Aging behemoths, including HP and IBM, barely warrant
the attention of the Four. Thousands of start-ups fly by like gnats
hardly worth swatting at. Any firm that begins to show the potential to
bother the Four is acquired—at prices lesser companies can’t imagine.
(Facebook paid nearly $20 billion for five-year-old, fifty-employee