Google Earnings Announced Today – Investors Disappointed From Jessica Guynn: LA Times Google’s first-quarter earnings and revenue topped some analyst estimates, signaling that consumer spending and online advertising are rebounding. The company earned $1.96 billion, or $6.06 a share, in the quarter. A year earlier it had net income of $1.42 billion, or $4.49 a share.
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Twitter Traffic Stats: 75% of Traffic From Outside Twitter.com When Twitter opened up its developers conference, better known as Chirp, they started out by releasing a ton of stats on Twitter. Here are some highlighted stats that were released: Twitter now has 106 million users 300,000 new users added every day 180 million unique visitors 75% […]
AT&T Builds New ‘Rethink Possible’ Image with Commercial (Video) AT&T is making every effort to separate itself from the image of “everyone is ganging up on me so I’m going to stand up and fight back” type of company. So now AT&T is trying a new angle by calling themselves a lifestyle company and launching […]
When it comes to SEO (search engine optimization), nothing trumps the natural SEO process for achieving higher rankings in Google. It never ceases to amaze me how many SEO’s out there are promoting their “100% Guaranteed” front page rankings in Google. And even better are the ones that are guaranteeing that within a month or […]
Google’s Nexus One Phone is new to the market and has experienced disappointing sales so far, but here are 3 reasons why the phone will thrive! In today’s world, people are so quick to lose sight of sound business principles such as patience, iteration, and studying analytics. Although the Google Nexus One phone is new […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer live at SMX. He is currently talking about how Microsoft fits in with the current search market and how their relationship will develop with Yahoo. Mr. Ballmer also talks about the legal issues of how Google goes about their advertising online business. Specifically, he points out […]
When is Microsoft going to stop crying about how much Google is dominating the search market, and actually start doing something to legitimately compete? If Microsoft would stop putting out garbage products that everyone hates, and started caring more about “user friendliness” rather than “control” then maybe they’d gain some true market share. Steve Ballmer, […]