Will General Motors rule the world?

[paula]

Hey Tom, how does the union feel about GM morphing into a huge
Internet/Telecom/Marketing thingy?  Not just the satilites, but now Onstar
connected cars and online TradeMarket, or some such.  The small revenue
company they're creating the site with is selling for like, $300/sh. Some
how GM hasn't excited the infamous Market yet. Maybe members should
maximize any employee stock benefits, eh?

The Onstar site is interesting.  They market to the fear and loathing of
soccer moms and dads and the renewal rate on the service was a surprise to
them.  Now they're going all out. They're running the service through
General Magic NOC as the VUI(voice user interface)Provider for their
internet connection and so forth. Now I see they're going to take over
industrial purchasing with Commerce One. Apparently you won't be able to do
biz with GM unless you're part of their network so that covers a lot of
companies. That seems like a lot of power to not use the word monopoly in
the same sentence. But I don't think of any laws that apply.