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In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the company's second-quarter earnings Thursday, cut into Google's overall international growth, bringing it down to 52% from 55% in the first quarter.
Google Inc.'s earnings growth bogged down more than investors anticipated during the second quarter, raising worries that the ailing U.S. economy is starting to touch the Internet search leader.
In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
Google shares have dropped two hundred bucks since they peaked at $724.80 last November.
When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.
Summer travel doesn't have to break the bank. Here are five smart ways to have a great experience your kids will never forget -- without leaving you with credit-card bills that make you wish you'd never gone in the first place.
Where do MBA students most want to work when they get out of school? Investment banks and consulting firms are still popular choices, but for the second straight year, the most coveted employer is Google, a recent survey found.
As Google's CEO, one of Eric Schmidt's duties is to represent the company in public. Co-presidents and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin limit their appearances, presumably because they value their privacy, but also because they seem to prefer it that way. Less time glad-handing means more time thinking big thoughts, working with their fellow Google engineers and, frankly, kitesurfing and other recreational activities.
Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories and worrying a privacy advocate
In our new feature, "Website remedies," Fortune Small Business enlists Web marketing and search-engine optimization specialists to analyze small-business Web sites in need of an overhaul. Could your site use a makeover? E-mail us at fsb_mail@timeinc.com. Plus, share your tips for improving our featured sites in our discussion forum.
In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the company's second-quarter earnings Thursday, cut into Google's overall international growth, bringing it down to 52% from 55% in the first quarter.
Google Inc.'s earnings growth bogged down more than investors anticipated during the second quarter, raising worries that the ailing U.S. economy is starting to touch the Internet search leader.
In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
Google shares have dropped two hundred bucks since they peaked at $724.80 last November.
When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.
Summer travel doesn't have to break the bank. Here are five smart ways to have a great experience your kids will never forget -- without leaving you with credit-card bills that make you wish you'd never gone in the first place.
Where do MBA students most want to work when they get out of school? Investment banks and consulting firms are still popular choices, but for the second straight year, the most coveted employer is Google, a recent survey found.
As Google's CEO, one of Eric Schmidt's duties is to represent the company in public. Co-presidents and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin limit their appearances, presumably because they value their privacy, but also because they seem to prefer it that way. Less time glad-handing means more time thinking big thoughts, working with their fellow Google engineers and, frankly, kitesurfing and other recreational activities.
Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories and worrying a privacy advocate
Way to go, Steve Ballmer. You sure showed Yahoo who's boss!
A new pilot program from Google would allow you to add Facebook-like apps to your site
Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer scientist, he couldn't have had a better gig: working at Google, the engineer's paradise. He had all the usual perks - a massage every other week, onsite laundry, free all-you-can-eat haute cuisine. Even better, he got to work on some of Google's highest-profile products, including the search technology that is the heart and soul of the company. And he made full use of his "20% time," that famous one day a week that Google gives its engineers to work on whatever project they want. A little over a year ago he and a couple of colleagues, brothers Bismarck and Belsasar Lepe, ages 28 and 21, respectively, did what many of the young geniuses do at Google: They came up with a cool idea, in this case a new way to handle Web video.
Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo
Politicians are eyeing oil profits like a fat juicy glazed ham.
Google proved to be the final straw that broke Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's back.
The search giant wants users to get in touch with their inner artiste. It also wants a piece of the social networking pie. Josh Quittner explains the connection between the two
Stocks rallied Friday, ending the week higher, after strong earnings from Google reassured investors that earnings outside the financial sector seem to be holding up despite the economic slowdown.
Internet search leader Google Inc. posted a first-quarter profit Thursday that soundly beat Wall Street's estimates, news that may assuage concerns that online advertising would succumb to a U.S. economic downturn.
"Everybody, listen to me, And return me, my ship. I'm your captain, I'm your captain, Although I'm feeling mighty sick." -- Mark Farner American Poet B. Flint, MI 1948
The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google Inc. to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site
Stock futures slipped early Thursday as investors caught their breath after the previous session's strong gains and awaited another batch of corporate earnings.
Stock futures continued to rise early Wednesday, lifted by an upbeat outlook from chip giant Intel, better-than-expected earnings from JPMorgan Chase and despite plummeting new home construction and rising inflation.
With all the hullabaloo about who is wooing Yahoo, it's easy to forget an undeniable fact: Google is still the best way to cash in on the growth of online advertising.
Yahoo on Wednesday moved another chess piece in its bid to fend off a hostile takeover by Microsoft, announcing it will outsource advertising space to Google as part of a short-term deal that could lead to a bigger partnership.
Two corporate behemoths try to put some ha-ha into your April Fool's Day... with mixed results
New numbers point to more slowing in Google's search ad traffic - and analysts are adjusting their numbers down.
Good thing Google has an on-site dentist. One of the sweetest perks - literally - enjoyed by employees at the company's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters is the unlimited supply of bite-sized chocolates found in its well-stocked cafeterias.
Back in the '90s, "Wintel" became shorthand for the seemingly unstoppable combination of Microsoft's Windows and Intel's chips. Wintel wasn't a bad investment thesis either. For years betting against either stock proved a sucker's game.
Stocks rallied Tuesday on news that the Federal Reserve, in coordination with central banks worldwide, will lend up to $200 billion to banks in an effort to loosen up tight credit markets.
U.S. stocks soared at the start of trading Tuesday after the Federal Reserve acted to boost liquidity for financial markets and the European Union approved the Google-DoubleClick merger.
In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
Facebook Inc. has raided Google Inc. to hire a new chief operating officer, providing the popular online social network with more seasoned management and advertising savvy as it strives to make more money without alienating its audience
Now it's Google's turn to be hounded by an upstart. Facebook, the popular social networking site, has lured top Google executive Sheryl Sandberg to serve as its chief operating officer.
Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
Like a good citizen of the Internet, I've been carefully building and maintaining my digital address books for years. Work e-mail addresses, nonwork e-mail addresses, cellphone numbers - the whole shebang. My electronic Rolodex now holds a few hundred names - a treasure trove of people, data, and memories good and bad.
News that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with skepticism by many CNN.com users on Friday.
With Google's stock already down considerably in recent weeks, the Web's next two most powerful players today struck a powerful blow for equality and influence in the increasingly-important Web ecosystem.
Google reported earnings and sales for the fourth quarter that missed Wall Street estimates, sending the stock tumbling after hours.
Over the years Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have become understandably judicious about their time. After all, multibillionaires are constantly in demand. Yet the engineering-grad-students- turned-media-moguls made time for FORTUNE when informed that Google had been chosen, for the second year running, as America's best company to work for.
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt take Google's reputation seriously. When informed that Google would be named the best company to work for, for the second year running, they agreed to sit for a rare three-way interview with Fortune's Adam Lashinsky. Here are snippets of the hourlong chat.
It wasn't long ago that it dawned on media experts that information technology - and in particular the Internet - would profoundly transform the business of advertising. Here was a new medium that could not only tell you when someone was looking at your ad but also indicate what that someone was interested in. How could old media's gray columns of classifieds compete with that?
Dear FSB: A month ago I launched a Chinese/English language exchange, 247yak.com, for people to practice speaking English and Chinese. The target audience is people in China who want to learn English and Americans who want to learn Chinese. It has 250 members, but only a few log in everyday to chat. Activity is a bit better on weekends. How do I improve the website's usage? Facebook users log in almost everyday!
The FCC's auction of rights to a huge chunk of radio airwaves invites new players to the telecom game. If Google bids big, it could mean open wireless access for all
Google is a company convinced of its own brilliance and its clear vision of the future. Being a hotbed of Mensa members will do that to you. As will stumbling early onto an obscenely lucrative business model. The same thing happened to a company called Microsoft.
Let's try an experiment. Like most people these days, you've probably spent too much time in front of your computer today. So, quick -- name three brands you saw in online display ads within the past 24 hours.
The way that big tech stocks have been wandering around the map lately, you need a global positioning system to figure out what direction they're headed in. And indeed on Friday, investors found their way back to Garmin, the once-highflying maker of global positioning systems - at least for a day. Garmin shares surged 16% Friday after it dropped a costly acquisition plan and extended a deal to buy digital map data from its current supplier. Friday's bounce shook Garmin out of a six-week-long swoon that shaved a third off its market capitalization, as Wall Street began wondering about the company's place in a fast-growing but rapidly consolidating industry.
When any company has been as successful as Google it's tempting to believe it has nowhere to go but down. And many point to potential weak spots: growing internal bureaucracy, insurgent search competitors, and the returning strength of Yahoo. Meanwhile, its much-touted recent initiatives - the Open Handset Alliance for cellphones, OpenSocial for software on social networks, and plans to spend billions buying wireless spectrum space - could easily fizzle.
Google is preparing to bid on a wireless spectrum, a move which could help the company roll out its own nationwide mobile network, according to a published report.
The favored exit strategy for internet startups is no longer an IPO but a splashy acquisition - preferably by Yahoo or Google. In the past decade each company has purchased around 40 small businesses, but for every YouTube (Google) or Flickr (Yahoo), there have been less flashy integrations and outright flameouts.
A new wave of web 2.0 software geeks believe in the former and are offering services in which experts recommend the best sites based on search terms the user provides. In addition to ChaCha's network of human guides (chacha.com), Mahalo (mahalo.com) creates hand-edited results pages for the most popular terms (Britney Spears was an early target). Eurekster (eurekster.com) allows users to build custom search portals that tap the expertise of online communities.
Some of the biggest, most established names in mobile technology are jostling to associate themselves with a company with virtually no track record in the wireless world.
U.S. stocks rallied at the start of trading Wednesday amid some solid economic signs and the first Google trades above $700 a share.
U.S. stock futures drifted slightly higher early Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates.
Past the lava lamps in the lobby and the cubicles decorated with cricket jerseys, a programmer sits in front of two flat-screen monitors touch-typing code. Another is plopped in a beanbag chair balancing a laptop on his knee. In a corner, near an electronic keyboard, a turbaned Sikh relaxes in a massage chair, eyes closed. Interspersed among the cubicles are a foosball table, billiards, darts, a chessboard, and a board game called carrom. A tent-shrouded chair sports a sign, FORTUNES TOLD HERE.
This is a historic moment in the history of technology. All at once, we are shifting to a mobile, ad-supported, on-demand, socially-connected, truly global network.
Google, the world's leading Internet search company, reported strong growth in sales and profits that beat Wall Street's estimates, a further sign of Google's dominance in the lucrative online advertising market.
Google is the elephant in nearly every corner of the Internet, from search and advertising to web-based e-mail, online mapping, and home-brewed video. With its share price setting new highs this fall, its market cap ($188 billion) is now large enough to buy the New York Times, the Washington Post, Gannett, and Time Warner - twice. Or Facebook many, many times over.
Of course Google's not investing in Microsoft or Yahoo. But Google has a big and growing problem that more successful competitors and a more balanced market could help it solve - an ever-growing swath of the world's businesses are becoming dependent on its services.
The war between consumers and producers is over. Consumers won. For decades the economic world order was dominated by excess demand. Scarce resources, including capital, were the differentiators between winners and losers.
As the search behemoth continues to dominate, there are still more than a thousand other search engines vying for users
A few weeks ago, we wrote about plans by Google and other Silicon Valley companies to make the next generation of wireless networks more Internet-like: Customers would be able to use any mobile device on any network, and access all online content on their cell phones.
Google Inc. will try to cash in on the Internet's latest craze by distributing ads within "widgets" - the interactive capsules designed to bring more pizzazz to Web pages.
Google Inc. has expanded its online suite of office software to include a business presentation tool similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint, adding the latest twist in a high-stakes rivalry.
Online search leader Google Inc. is expanding the volume of advertising that it delivers to mobile devices, hoping to make more money from the expanding audience of consumers surfing the Web when they're away from home or the office.
Google is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.
Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are reportedly paying $1.3 million a year so their Boeing 767 plane can take off, land and park at a NASA-managed airport located just a few minutes away from the Internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters.
Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google's online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sales to big businesses.
Can everyone be an astronomer? It certainly seems that way, especially with some of the latest tools at our fingertips, like Google Sky, which allows Internet users to navigate through a digitized map of space. But some say virtual astronomy is not just for amateurs and should also be the way forward for professional space exploration. A future of virtual astronauts, too.
Every so often, a really great, sustained rivalry comes along. In the 1970s and 1980s we had the Los Angeles Lakers versus the Boston Celtics. In the 1990s, East Coast rappers dueled their West Coast counterparts. More recently the nation was transfixed by the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie fight. Now comes a clash of industries so momentous it threatens to make those other feuds look positively tame.
Dream of landing a coding job at an A-list tech company? It might be a good idea to prep for your interviews by pondering how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus. Or how much you would charge for washing all the windows in Seattle. Or why, exactly, manhole covers are round and not, say, square.
Google Inc.'s chief financial officer will retire by the end of the year, creating the most prominent job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years ago
When it comes to consumer recalls, do we care more about our pets than our children?
Disruption is easy to spot - in hindsight. The railroads were always going to be better than canals and wagon trains. The telephone was bound to edge out the telegraph. The transistor was clearly superior to vacuum tubes. In recent years, digital cameras have stolen the market for film, the iPod has started to replace the CD and Google seems to be disrupting just about everything else.
Google revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by Google into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
American Airlines, the world's largest airline, said Friday it was seeking damages from Internet search leader Google Inc. for selling search words involving its name.
What was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. - Charles E. Wilson, president of GM, 1953
Can an open source project improve online searching? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks so
Google, the Internet search giant that's pulled in billions of dollars in online advertising, is looking to break into the market for mobile phone ads, according to one report Thursday.
Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Nike are among the iconic American brands that suffered year-over-year declines in their "likeability" among global consumers, according to a new brand study report Tuesday.
Google Inc. has made its biggest move yet on the U.S. mobile Web market by signing a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. that positions the Internet company to build services to run on Sprint's planned WiMAX high-speed wireless network.
With Google in its mid-toddler years as a public company - it turns three on Aug. 19 - it has achieved something truly historic: It has created more investor wealth in less time than any company in history. So investors, repeat after me: All hail, Google! But don't put it in the wealth-creation pantheon quite yet. And please don't buy it at today's price.
Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity
Weak earnings from Caterpillar and Google sent stock futures lower Friday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 for the first time ever.
Thursday was hardly the best day in Google's three years as a public company.
Catherine Cook, the 17-year-old co-founder of MyYearbook.com, explained why her service has become the third largest social network in the United States. Vint Cerf, the 64-year-old Internet evangelist from Google, conveyed his enormous optimism about continued prospects for the Internet, for which he co-developed the basic software underpinnings between 1974 and 1982. Tech pundit and investor Esther Dyson explained why she was putting her full medical and genetic records online. And John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, arguably the most successful large technology company, predicted that Net innovation would cause U.S. GDP growth to rise as much as a 5 percent annually, significantly higher than the current level of around 3 percent.
Web search leader Google Inc. said Friday that it would participate in an upcoming wireless spectrum auction if the Federal Communications Commission adds a key condition.
U.S. stocks fell at Friday's open, with two major indexes easing from closing records, after disappointing results from Caterpillar and Google.
Google Inc. is shortening the life span of its "cookie" data-tracking file -- but it's not clear whether the move would do much to enhance privacy
Lawmakers in Congress plan to hold hearings to air concerns about Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Web advertising supplier DoubleClick Inc.
Internet search leader Google reported a strong increase in revenue and earnings for the second quarter Thursday thanks to explosive demand for online advertising. But profits fell slightly short of expectations, disappointing investors that have grown accustomed to Google easily surpassing consensus estimates.
Google Inc. said it is expanding its Print Ads program to allow online advertisers nationwide to place print advertisements in 225 newspapers, serving half of U.S. newspaper readers.
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic
Where there are markets, naturally there are middlemen, from market makers on the New York Stock Exchange to people who buy stuff cheap on Craigslist and resell it on eBay.
The two leading Internet search companies will report their second quarter results this week. And even though the Internet ad business is booming, the expectations for Yahoo! and Google could not be any more different.
Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products
A Google executive said Tuesday that the company had heard the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose the winner of a coming auction of valuable wireless airwaves be required to provide an "open platform" to consumers and rivals.
Internet bellwether Google agreed to purchase Postini, a privately held provider of Web communications security, for $625 million in cash, the company announced Monday.
Europe's major consumer group BEUC fears Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content
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