It seems like Google is about to fall foul of the regulators / politicians which to me highlights another aspect of the “too big to fail” idea described below i.e. at what point is a growing company perceived to wield too much power?  This is a particular problem in technology markets where new companies can go from start-up to domination in a relatively short period of time; Google 10 years, Microsoft 15 years and IBM 20 years.

It seems like dominant market players are going have an increasingly hard time of things over the next few years.  Part of this may be cultural for the companies involved in that the period of entreprenurial excitement will end up being a lot shorter and large company bureaucracy relating to external regulation arrive earlier.