LIVE: Google’s Q2 Earnings Come in a Little Low

Posted on July 15, 2010 by robhof

Despite some promising signs of a continued rebound in search advertising, Google reported second-quarter results that met analysts’ revenue expectations but came in lower than they forecast on profits. Shares are down almost 4% in after-hours trading after closing up a fraction in today’s trading. I’ll liveblog the earnings call starting at 1:30 p.m. Pacific. [...]

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Search Ads Continue to Surge; Good News for Google?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by robhof

Given the even sorrier state of the economy a year ago, it’s not hard for any industry to show an improvement. But even though search ads didn’t slump nearly as much as every other kind of advertising, it’s continuing to show strong improvement, according to a new report from search marketing firm Efficient Frontier. That’s [...]

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Eric Schmidt: Google’s Next Big Business Is Display Ads

Posted on May 13, 2010 by robhof

Annual shareholder meetings can be anticlimactic snoozers, but often enough, Google’s are not. There was the time in 2008 when cofounder Sergey Brin abstained from a motion for Google to end its activities in China, on which the rest of the board voted no–providing a clue to Google’s recent decision to stop censoring search results [...]

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Google Tops Earnings Expectations–But Not Investors’ Hopes

Posted on April 15, 2010 by robhof

As expected, Google turned in a more than decent first quarter, with profits up 37%. But just as in the fourth quarter, investors were hoping for even better, sending the search giant’s shares down 3% or more in early after-hours trading. No big surprise here: If anyone were expected to beat already heady expectations, it [...]

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Google Beats Q4 Earnings But Shares Dive

Posted on January 21, 2010 by robhof

In just-announced fourth-quarter earnings, Google handily beat expectations for fourth-quarter profits. They rose fivefold (thanks to some $1 billion in writeoffs a year ago) on a 17% jump in sales, both considerably higher than analysts expected. But investors clearly had hoped for more, and they were sending Google’s shares down 5% in after-hours trading. I’m [...]

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