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Google files revised settlement in Books case - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 8 days 4 minutes ago
The new agreement was swiftly criticized by the Open Book Alliance, a group of librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and other technology companies.


Yahoo's search share slips; Microsoft, Google gain - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 20 hours 52 minutes ago
Citigroup CEO annual salary stays at $1


Sharp to offer Google-based phone in Japan: report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 17 hours 6 minutes ago
Sharp holds the largest mobile-phone market share in Japan, according to the report.


Google buys mobile-ad firm for $750 million - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 23 hours 18 minutes ago
The acquisition will enhance Google's "existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising, while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new area," the company said in a statement.


Google, publishers push back settlement filing - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 20 hours 30 minutes ago
In a letter filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers ask to delay a scheduled Nov. 9 deadline for their settlement filing until Nov. 13 -- a request that was granted.


AOL returns as Steve Case scores again David Callaway - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 4 days 13 hours 30 minutes ago
During that brief window at the turn of the decade when everybody old enough to drag a cursor across a computer screen was a Web entrepreneur, profit and cash flow didn't matter, and Internet stock was the leading form of currency on Wall Street, one company rode herd on the revolution -- AOL.


Google and Apple director part ways - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 42 days 34 minutes ago
Google shares paced gains in the technology sector. Shares got a lift after analysts raised their price estimates for the Internet giant. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports in San Francisco.


Google quarterly profit, sales top Wall Street vie - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 22 hours 17 minutes ago
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected Google to post earnings excluding items of $5.42 a share, and $4.24 billion in net revenue.


Google's lifeline for AOL shows signs of decline - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 9 days 23 hours 36 minutes ago
At a book party for author Ken Auletta, who has just written "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," Kara Swisher asks guests if they were scared by the search giant's growing power.


Google expected to post gains after the bell - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 2 hours 48 minutes ago
That compares to earnings of $4.92 a share and $4.04 billion in net revenue for the same period last year.


Google price targets get boost ahead of report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 42 days 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Google shares paced gains in the technology sector. Shares got a lift after analysts raised their price estimates for the Internet giant. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports in San Francisco.


Google beats estimates; shares higher in premarket - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 6 hours 12 minutes ago
Excluding special items, the company said earnings for the quarter were $5.89 a share.


Google, IBM set for late session's center stage - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 23 hours 28 minutes ago
Safeway Inc. shares jump after the company posts better-than-expected profit and maintains its full-year forecast. The supermarket sector led gains in consumer-staples stocks. MarketWatch's Andria Cheng reports.


Wednesday's biggest gaining and declining stocks Movers & Shakers - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 5 hours 57 minutes ago
Fortinet, the Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of network-security solutions, began an initial public offering of 12.5 million common shares at $12.50. The company is offering 5.8 million shares and holders 6.7 million. Fortinet also has given the underwriters an option on an additional 1.88 million shares if demand for the offering requires.





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Company Overview


Company: Google Inc.
Industry: Internet Search & Navigation Services
Website: http://www.google.com

If you've never Googled, you probably aren't finding what you want online. Google operates the leading Internet search engine, offering targeted search results from billions of Web pages. Results are based on a proprietary algorithm -- Google's technology for ranking Web pages is called PageRank. The company generates nearly all of its revenue through ad sales. Advertisers can deliver relevant ads targeted to search queries or Web content. The Google Network is a network of third party customers that use Google's ad programs to deliver relevant ads to their own Web sites. Google subsidiaries include YouTube and DoubleClick. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each have nearly 30% voting control of the firm.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 21,795.6 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 31.3 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 4,226.9 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.6 (2008)
Number of Employees 20,222 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 20.3 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December