Yahoo reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues were $1,732 million for the fourth quarter of 2009, exceeding the top end of the Company’s business outlook range. Revenues decreased 4% from the fourth quarter of 2008 and increased 10% from the third quarter of 2009. Revenues were $6,460 million for 2009, a decrease of 10% … [Read more...]
Google Founders To Sell 10 Million Shares Giving Up Controlling Interest Over Next Five Years
According to a regulatory filing submitted today the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plan to sell off 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, which would cause them to surrender majority voting control over the company. If they followed the plan, the stock sales would reduce their voting power over Google's stock from 59% today to around 48%, depriving them of … [Read more...]
Google Earnings, Revenue, Clicks and Price Per Click All Up, Stock down
After the market closes today Google's announced its results for the 4th quarter beating analyst estimates. Revenue rose 17% from a year ago on strong ad sales. Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, excluding traffic acquisition costs, was $4.95 billion, slightly higher than the $4.92 billion analysts were expecting. Including those costs, Google posted total revenue of $6.67 … [Read more...]
AdGooroo: Google Advertisers Down 5%, But PPC spending up 13% & Ad Prices Are UP.
According to AdGooroo, a marketing data and keyword tools provider, Google has lost 5% of its active advertisers. However they found that spending on Google is up nearly 13% among the top 80 U.S. retailers. AdGooroo said retailers' Google spend grew from approximately $264 million in the third quarter to about $298 million in the fourth quarter. "Google experienced a quality purge this … [Read more...]
How Google Ranks Tweets and Real Time Search Results
The Technologyreview.com, interviewed Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, who led development of real-time search for Google. Back in December Google announced that is was going to being to index real time search results for Twitter and Facebook entries. This is the first time I have read an account of how Google is actually going to rank and index real time searches. According to Mr. Singhal, … [Read more...]
Breaking News: Google May Pull Out Of China
According to Google's blog it may pull out of China. Google said it detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China" in mid-December and that the attack resulted in "the theft of intellectual property from Google." "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered, combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit … [Read more...]
The Family Of The Author Of Blade Runner Is Not Happy With Google’s Choice Of Nexus One
The family of the the Author of the sci-fi novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" that later became the sci-fi classic Blade Runner says that Google lifted the name of their new smart phone, Nexus One from the book. The book written by Philip K. Dick, was about a private detective tracking down a rogue android, a Nexus 6 model. "Google takes first and then deals with the fallout later," … [Read more...]