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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

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It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum begins

Updated: Microsoft and Yahoo made it official on Wednesday. The two companies announced a 10-year pact where Microsoft will power Yahoo search. Yahoo also becomes the sales force for Microsoft's premium properties. The companies said the search deal will accelerate innovation and bring more value to advertisers...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Google: Nice quarter, but...

Google's expense management enabled the company to handily top its earnings targets, but there were Wall Street worries about the company's lack of revenue growth. Revenue per click was also a worry. The company today reported second quarter revenue of $4.07 billion, beating Wall Street's estimates of...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Google's MySpace payments: just one more year to go

Assuming MySpace meets its page view requirements, Google writes a $75 million check to News Corp. every quarter as part of a multi-year, $900 million AdSense deal the two hammered a few years ago. In a post today, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington detailed the payment schedule in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Payment, MySpace, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Analyst: Google will start walking away from bad AdSense deals like MySpace

Are the days of silly AdSense deals with the likes of MySpace and AOL over for Google? Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. The analyst upped his price target to $600 for Google shares on the theory that the economy is rebounding and the search giant's revenue per...

Tags: Paid Search, Google Inc., America Online Inc., Google AdSense, MySpace, Lindsay, Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory'

Updated: Google reported first quarter net income of $1.42 billion, or $4.49 a share, on revenue of $4.07 billion, excluding traffic acquisition costs. Excluding various charges, Google reported earnings of $5.16 a share, well ahead of Wall Street estimates of $4.93 a share. In a statement, Google...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Earnings, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-16

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

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy

Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment. The search giant on Thursday reported net income of $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, on revenue of $5.37 billion excluding...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees

The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake?

Yahoo has made it official: It is teaming up with Google on search advertising, but the ripple effects--both short-term and long-term--are just beginning. The two companies have announced a broad agreement where Yahoo uses Google's text advertising, but stops short of completely outsourcing search. Among the key...

Tags: Advertisement, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Management, Strategy, Termination Fee, Text Advertising Business, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more

Updated: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was "open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft" following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled out a Microsoft purchase, but wants something better than the software giant's $31 a share offer. ...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal

Google on Thursday allayed concerns about its paid click growth rate with first quarter earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations. Google reported first quarter net income of $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, on revenue of $5.19 billion. Excluding traffic acquisition costs TAC of $1.49 billion, revenue was...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Quarter, StreetView, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Did GOOG beat estimates by shortchanging publishing partners?

Last week Google beat financial analyst forecasts and its shares rose. I looked at the third quarter 2007 results, in particular, its traffic acquisition costs TAC, and noticed something very interesting and something which no one else had written about. TAC was 29 per cent of total...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Partnership, Google AdSense, Difference, Operational Accounting, Business Structures, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-10-20

Tic Tac Toe (Multiplayer) 1 (Windows)

Tic Tac Toe game panel. You can play a game of Tic Tac Toe against the computer or you can select a friend from your Google Talk buddy list to play with as well. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-09-10

Google earnings fall short of expectations

Google reported second quarter earnings of $925 million, or $2.93 a share, but that wasn't enough to satisfy Wall Street. Excluding charges, Google had earnings of $1.12 billion, or $3.56 a share. According to Thomson Financial Google was expected to report earnings of $3.59 a share. On the revenue...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Google paints $3.7 billion pretty picture

Why is Google CEO Eric Schmidt so "ecstatic"? Pictures say 3.66 billion words!Googles quarterly report to Wall Street ritual went as expected today: Business at Google continues to be very strong, very, very strong!Whats more, Schmidt is confident that there is more, much more to come, in Googles future:The global...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Feds: Microsoft not meeting deadlines in antitrust settlement

Feds: Microsoft not meeting deadlines in antitrust settlementIf you say soit's your opinion to have :)Please name the servicesrequired for XP to "see" the network. I'm sitting at an XP machine right now and I'll check your list for you just to make sure.......shoot.The real truth MS wants to avoid...

Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice, McKay, antitrust, Abramoff, MSFT

Discussion threads 2007-03-07

What Google didn't say: Q3 analyst questions left unanswered

Google is feeling especially cocky today and who can blame “everyone’s favorite garage band”? Google CEO Eric Schmidt had the pleasure of announcing one-of-a-kind financial results to Wall Street in its Q3 earnings report conference call this afternoon; See “Is Google unstoppable? Q3 record performance defies market conditions.”The market and...

Tags: Google Inc., stock, Eric Schmidt

Blog posts 2006-10-19

Nine great podcasts from MIT's CIO Symposium

What do Monster Technology's Paul Neilson CIO, Dunkin' Brands' Rick Broughton, (Director, IT Strategy), MIT's Jerry Grochow VP of IS, COX New England's Brad Shipp Vice President for Information Technology, Accenture's Bob Suh Chief Technology Strategist, Hyperion's Howard Dresner Chief Strategy Officer, Red Hat's Brian Stevens CTO, HP's Russ Daniels...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, audio, Moderator

Blog posts 2006-08-15