GOOG Seesawing In A Down Market Stocks are off in early trading as the ECB expressed caution over more bond purchases and
Corzine doesn't know where the missing money is. Shares of GOOG are trading sideways, currently sliding in the negative. Catalysts include continued
Android momentum in the smartphone and tablet markets worldwide;
Motorola acquisition approval and integration; regaining ground in China; any signs of life for
Google TV (including
Motorola); the roll-out of
Google Music, social network Google+ and
Google Wallet; and progress in other newer initiatives (location-based services, mapping, gaming, daily deals, etc.). The stock trades at approximately
12.7x Enterprise Value / EBIT.
Android Is The Trojan Horse For Other Google Services (CNet) Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Product Management at Google, revealed that Google has a different agenda with
Android, its freely available operating system: driving usage of its own services. One example of how Android serves Google's ultimate goals is mapping. Last week, Google introduced
Google Maps for Mobile 6.0, which brings the ability to navigate indoors in some malls, stores, and airports. The first phones to get the ability? You guessed it.
Read » Google Thinks That Its TV Offering Will Be In Majority Of TVs Next Year (SlashGear) Chairman
Eric Schmidt spoke recently about his big plans for
Google TV, which he believes will be embedded in the majority of new television sets by the summer of 2012. The majority? More than 50%? By May 2012? That's crazy talk says Matt Rosoff at
Business Insider.
The first version of Google TV was such a flop that Logitech saw more returns than sales in the first quarter of 2011.
Read » Google To Add Display Advertising To Its Own Sites (Business Insider) Someday, probably sooner rather than later, Google is going to start putting display advertising on its own sites. The company is looking for someone senior who can build an on-domain display advertising business. Meaning, there will be display ads in Google+,
Gmail and maybe
Google Reader. Ads are already in Gmail, but they are not display ads. While the added monetization is great for the search giant, it spells trouble for
Yahoo! Read » Charts Of The Day: Apple vs. Android, Profits Versus Growth
(Business Insider)Take your pick of which you deem more important.
Tight race.
Google Invests $100 Million In New Hong Kong Data Center
(San Francisco Chronicle) Google says it will spend $300 million on a new data center in Hong Kong that will be up and running by 2013 as it beefs up infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly rising Asian Internet use. That's a good sign given the company's recent falling out with China.
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