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- Google moves to show YouTube has 'a very credible business model'
- Google on its second quarter earnings call went out of its way to say it was pleased with YouTube's "trajectory" and indicated that the company would make money on the video site. The motive: Combat a bevy of worries about YouTube's profit potential. YouTube monetization has become...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Video, YouTube Monetization, Munster, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?
- AOL will be an independent publicly traded company again as Time Warner solidified plans to spin off the ailing unit, which some analysts estimate to be worth about $5 billion. In a statement Thursday, Time Warner put more meat on its plans to spin off AOL. Executives...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Google first quarter earnings on deck: What to watch
- Google's first quarter is expected to be roughly in line with expectations and some analysts say Wall Street may be too pessimistic about the search giant's financial results. Google reports earnings on Thursday and as usual will be closely watched. Wall Street is expecting Google to report...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Earnings, Laura Martin, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic
- Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...
- Tags: Revenue, Shareholder, EBITDA, Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ivory Investment Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Motorola: Handset unit spin-off delayed; No Android 'til next Christmas; Layoffs on tap
- Motorola's sick patient--its handset business--is too sick to spin off right now and it’s unlikely that a big bet on Google's Android operating system is going to save it. Meanwhile, Motorola won't deliver Android smartphones until this time next year give or take a few days. The...
- Tags: Layoff, Handset, Motorola Inc., Handset Business, Sanjay Jha, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Ballmer: We don't need Yahoo and we aren't raising our bid
- As expected, Microsoft launched its Yahoo counterattack on Wednesday as CEO Steve Ballmer said the company isn't raising its bid for the portal and would be just fine without a merger. Whether Ballmer is bluffing or not remains to be seen. Yahoo reported solid first quarter earnings...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Internet, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo: Google could play spoiler and bid too
- Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo in a deal that on the surface looks like a no-brainer. Unless Google bids too. The logic behind a Google bid for Yahoo makes a lot of sense. In fact, Google buying Yahoo makes more sense to me than Microsoft buying...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Google's quarter falls short of expectations; Social networking not monetizing well
- Google on Thursday reported fourth quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, on revenue of $4.83 billion, up 51 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges Google reported earnings of $4.43 a share. All of those figures missed Wall Street estimates. According to Thomson...
- Tags: Social Networking, Revenue, Google Inc., Network, Sergey Brin, TAC Google, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- With Google, everyone is an armchair HR critic
- The handwringing over Google's hiring practices is getting to be comical. Google hired 2,130 people in the third quarter and now employs almost 16,000. Oh no! News.com's Elinor Mills asks what these people do? Short answers: Sell ads, cook up new technology and add brainpower to the...
- Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- News Corp.: MySpace on track to top annual sales of $500 million; post modest profit
- MySpaces fiscal 2007 sales are on track to top $500 million with more growth to come in 2008, said News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin. News Corp., which revealed the glimpse of MySpaces financial results on its fiscal second quarter...
- Tags: General, Google, MySpace, Peter Chernin
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- News to know: Dissecting presidential speeches; Vista revs; 802.11n
- Notable headlines: President Bush gives his State of the Union address tonight. Heres the techie way to dissect the speech... Pluggd tees up searchable State of the Union. ...and put it in historical context: U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.Vista is coming up:Genuine Advantage: Can Microsoft recast itself as protector, not...
- Tags: General, State-of-the Union, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Google's golden run continues
- Google has just released its Q2 results and, like a true life Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, the world's media continues to be enthralled with this uber-successful Internet innovator. Google's Q2 completes a set of Web company announcements this week. Earlier this week Yahoo's stock went down after their second quarter...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-21
- Yahoo, Google report to Wall Street next week
- “Google and Yahoo are still benefiting from the increased willingness of marketers to buy ads based on keyword searches,” so say analysts in advance of next week’s second quarter earnings reports due out, as reported by CNNMoney:Even though both companies reported strong first quarter results and have continued to unveil...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- Wall Street analysts still gaga over Google
- Wall Street analysts still gaga over GoogleSo, is this a site for technology news ...Or the Wall Street Journal?One word: sellI think the best quote I saw from a respected analyst today was along the lines of: I think investors are figuring out that Google isn't a rocket company. They're...
- Tags: Linux, Investment, Financial accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-01
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