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It’s the patents Google has decided to spend $12.5B on; the products are expendable
Some disappointing numbers in Motorola Mobility’s latest earnings report: A loss of $80 million on revenue of $3.4 billion, and mobile device shipments of 10.5 million versus 11.3 million a year ago. Still, few were as grim as these: 200,000 tablets shipped in the fourth quarter and just 1 million shipped for all of 2011. In other words, it took MoMo a full year to ship 1/15th the number of iPads Apple sold in its most recent quarter.
And this is the company that Google has decided to spend $12.5 billion on.
Motorola… Continue reading: Motorola Sells Significantly Fewer Tablets Than Apple – John Paczkowski – Mobile – AllThingsD
Searching for a coherent and compelling Google value proposition
Google does not disclose how much money it has spent on Google+. But analysts believe much of Google’s aggressive hiring during the past year — its headcount swelled to more than 8,000 employees in 2011 alone — was to feed its social efforts as it seeks to challenge Facebook’s 800 million user network.
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Google+, which does not currently feature ads, is still in its infancy and the company has yet to outline its monetization plans for the service. But Macquarie Research analyst Ben Schachter said the benefits of some of Google’s other non-search initiatives, such as the vast amount… Continue reading: Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google’s new direction – Yahoo! News
Steve Jobs would have enjoyed this
Now compare Google’s fortunes to Apple’s. Apple is today the world’s most valuable company, and it hasn’t spent one cent on lobbying against intellectual property. Apple makes real money, on real products, which aren’t easily replicable. Google, by contrast, is easily substitutable for a Bing or a Baidu. The idea is beginning to circulate that there’s no real long-term growth in Google’s business.
Apple’s soaraway growth is Google’s pain – and here’s why • The Register
Continue reading: Apple’s soaraway growth is Google’s pain – and here’s why • The Register
Meanwhile, via Danny Sullivan (via Facebook…), “Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else”
Google announced a plan Tuesday to link user data across its email, video, social-networking and other services that it says will create a "beautifully simple and intuitive" user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant’s Buzz social networking service.
The changes, which take effect March 1, will remove some of the legal hurdles Google Inc. faces in trying to link information across services from Gmail to YouTube to the Google Plus social network that replaced Buzz.
Business & Technology | Google to merge… Continue reading: Business & Technology | Google to merge user data across more services | Seattle Times Newspaper
Perhaps Google should plan on hiring Newt Gingrich for lobbying work; he should have some spare time soon
Google’s U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $3.76 million in the fourth quarter as the Internet search leader fought proposed changes to online piracy laws and sought to influence a wide range of other issues that could affect its fortunes.
The amount is the company’s largest lobbying tab for any quarter since its Washington office opened in 2005. The company spent $1.24 million on lobbying during the final three months of 2010 and $2.38 million in the third quarter of 2011.
Google pumps up its lobbying effort – The Washington Post
… Continue reading: Google pumps up its lobbying effort – The Washington Post
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