Er, or words to that effect. You may have noticed that a French company called Alcatel SA is merging with Lucent, the company that used to be called Bell Labs. So what? Well, Lucent does a lot of work for the Pentagon — and you know what the Yanks think of the French. Even the chips in the DoD canteen have been renamed “Freedom Fries”. Somehow, I’ll be surprised if this corporate marriage works out. After all, Congress got into a lather about a Dubai company owning American sea ports…

Headline courtesy of Good Morning Silicon Valley btw.