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Google, IBM set for late session's center stage - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 11 hours 2 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 | 4 days 17 hours 31 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.


Google shores up cash through pinching pennies MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 9 hours ago
The company also said its total worldwide workforce shrunk by 121 people in the quarter. It employed 19,665 full-time employees at the end of September, down from 19,786 in the second quarter. Google's over exuberant hiring had been sticking in Wall Street's craw.


AMD, Google lead early tech rally - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 41 days 15 hours 32 minutes ago
Analyst Uche Orji said the upgrade was based partly on "improved near term expected growth as our recent checks show that a PC market tailwind is lifting both Intel and AMD."


Critical Alerts for Google, Deere, Dish Network, Suntech Power, and Lincoln National Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 9 hours 43 minutes ago
Critical Alerts for Google, Deere, Dish Network, Suntech Power, and Lincoln National Released...key.) Today's PriceWatch Alerts cover the following stocks: Google Inc. , Deere & Co. , Dish Network Corp. , Suntech Power Holdings Co...


Supercomputer makers must deal with power Therese Poletti's Tech Tales - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 5 hours 46 minutes ago
IBM s Roadrunner supercomputer, the second fastest in the world.


Tiger's Robertson attracted to Intel, Google - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 34 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
Robertson, one of the most successful hedge-fund managers in history, also said he was concerned about U.S. dependence on China as a source for borrowing. He highlighted overseas currencies, such as the Norwegian krone, as more solid than the U.S. dollar.


U.S. stock futures edge up after Google results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 37 days 20 hours 32 minutes ago
S&P 500 futures rose 2.6 points to 1,092.40 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 4.25 points to 1,752.70. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 18 points.


Google profit, sales top Wall Street view - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 37 days 12 hours 46 minutes ago
Less terrible is the new good. Mattel Chief Executive Bob Eckert said Friday that with financial and job concerns weighing on consumers, the holiday season isn't looking too happy. But it won't be as bad as last year, and that's good news.


Google, Microsoft gain in search as Yahoo declines - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 10 hours 37 minutes ago
J.P. Morgan Chase profit jumps past estimates


Protect those Apple, Google and tech windfalls - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 28 days 1 hour 56 minutes ago
Not so fast. You're taking a huge, and thoroughly needless, risk.


AOL has a lot to prove now MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 3 days 14 hours 13 minutes ago
This will enable AOL to save a pile of dough, but it won't be enough to establish the company as a dynamic brand.





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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