Google
Even Hillary Clinton -- love her or hate her -- got involved.
Google, quite frankly, is tired of betraying its "do no evil" mantra. In whitewashing its search results to comply with the great firewall of China, Big G has been a sellout. Unfortunately, refusing to censor its site -- even if it's the right thing to do -- would likely result in Chinese citizens being blocked from accessing the site.
It's quite the quandary for Google. It has to either be a sellout, or be left with nothing to sell.
Briefly in the news
And now let's take a quick look at some of the other stories that shaped our week.
- Marvel -- now Disney's
(NYSE:DIS) Marvel -- won't be releasing the fourth installment in the Spider-Man movie franchise next year. It's probably going to hit theaters in 2012. -
Microsoft's
(NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing surrendered market share to Google last month, according to Nielsen. Naturally, Bing wasn't going to keep growing every single month, but I sense a new barrage of annoying Bing ads on the horizon. -
Berkshire Hathaway
(NYSE:BRK-A) (NYSE:BRK-B) is gearing up for a shareholder vote on Wednesday, deciding whether it should split its "B" shares in a 50-to-1 transaction. Why is this so controversial? The "B" shares were born as the result of a 30-to-1 adjustment. Did I miss the "no double splitting" poster?
Until next week, I remain,
Rick Munarriz