Archive for the 'Google' Category
Ringleader dials up $6 million for mobile ad network
While the mobile space is huge, it’s still not easy to penetrate. Yet, with only $2 million in angel funding by the past couple years, Ringleader has done fairly well. The company has put together a sophisticated online advertising network, which helps with mobile ads (as well as those on the de…
Monster Worldwide growls
While much of the attention was on Yahoo!, Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) nowadays, there was actually some good news for other Net stocks. Take Monster Worldwide (Nasdaq: MNST).
For its Q4, Monster reported a 15% increase in net inco…
Google tops Forbes list of fastest growing tech stocks
Last week Forbes released its annual list of the fastest growing tech stocks, and it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) topped the list, with nearly $15 billion in sales, representing five-year sales growth of 155%, and 30% EPS growth. To construct the list, companie…
Market highlights for next week: Verizon, Boeing and Google reporting
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Monday, January 28
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is reporting Q4 earnings; conference sign at 8:30am.
Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) is reporting Q4 earnings; conference sign at 9am.
Compass Diversified Holdings (NASDAQ: CODI) to hold conference shout to discuss the acquisition of S…
Google (GOOG) depressed by scary Apple forecast
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) stock is trading lower that AM after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) forecast a second-quarter profit well below analysts’ expectations. AAPL is now expecting a second-quarter profit of 94 cents per share, below Wall Street’s expectation of $1.09 per share. The forecast worried inves…
Google to supply scientific storage access for free
Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is famous for just giving things absent for free. The company is a large part of the info economy and allows anyone on the planet with World Wide Web access free use of its search engine, mail, documents, photos and more. In return, it receives lucrative advertising d…
IncrediMail back in favor with Google
Though we still don’t know precisely what happened, IncrediMail (NASDAQ: MAIL) announced nowadays that it has been re-instated by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as an AdSense Online customer. As a reminder, about two weeks ago, in a shocking announcement, IncrediMail was let go by Google as an AdSense cu…
Google to donate up to $175 million by next 3 years
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced details of its philanthropic plan (Google.org) to combat climate change, poverty, and what the company called “emerging threats.” In a press release, Google said that “Today’s announcement includes more than $25 million in new grants and investments to initial…
Wal-Mart to sell $399 Google-powered laptop
Some society will go out of their way to avoid using Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows operating system. whether you look around carefully abundant, you can escape the “Microsoft tax” and get a PC for a lower price. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) already sells PCs that don’t use Windows, a…
Google’s Android makes no appearance at CES in Las Vegas
Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s Android was really set up to be displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that week. After such a high-profile and hyped introduction that past fall, it would have been very Apple-esque (as in, releasing products right after announcing them at Macworld) of Go…
Is Wikia a large future threat to Google?
When Wikipedia was conceived, few would have thought it would end up in the regular top-10 of Net sites — but it has. The largest encyclopedia in the world has a viewership that any entity on the web would kill for. Its strength remains in the ability of anyone to create and edit encyclopedia e…
What you get when 1,000+ Googlers start betting
The New York Times has an interesting piece that dawn — “Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game” is as much about so-called “prediction markets” as it is about Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), its culture, and its driving values.
Prediction markets are speculative markets created for the purpose of making de…
Meraki’s Wi-Fi free-for-all in San Francisco
It’s been a good week for Wi-Fi startup Meraki. First of all, the company raised a cool $20 million in venture capital. Investors included Sequoia Capital, DAG Venture and Northgate Capital.
What’s more, Meraki says it will offer free high-speed wireless Net access all through San Francis…
Google must preserve laser focus on search all through 2008
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) had a very engaged 2007 — initiatives and projects, product launches and a furious growth rate that kept analysts guessing every singled-out quarter. With so much going on at the world’s most popular Net search engine, will Google lose focus on the bread-n-butter machine o…
