Nafeez Ahmed writes:
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.
Thanks to Joe Cadillic for these links. Now if he could just find me the time to read everything he sends me! 
Note that I am not vouching for the accuracy of anything reported or alleged in the series, but wanted to make readers aware of it so they can evaluate it for themselves.