38 years after the summer of love, San Francisco and the Bay Area is bracing for war as Google has set its sights on PayPal - ebay and Craigslist. With its stock price ballooning the best ideas the billionaires of Silicon Valley could come up with mimic the models of the other successful Bay Area e-successes.
There is relief in Redmond and confusion in the peanut gallery where the pundits thought Google was going for the desktop.
Google Wallet is about to be announced, followed by a classified advertising service and it will be dog-edog on the streets of San Francisco this summer.