Category: Google News & Finances

A few months ago, Google made a change to Google News where you need to sign in to be able to change your local news information…

Google announced their Q2 earnings last night and beat estimates, although some are worried about mobile ads being an issue and Nikesh Arora leaving the company…

As many of you heard by now, Vic Gundotra, announced on Google+ that he is leaving Google.

Vic Gundotra was the Senior Vice President, Social for Google. He was also instrumental with Google I/O related activities. Before joining Google in 2007……

This week, Google announced earnings and the buzz around the industry is that they missed their marks. Google blames the results on the purchase of Nest.

Times of India reports Google may be fined up to $5 billion by the Competition Commission of India.

The commission in India has filed an antitrust investigation and if found that Google has violated anti-competitive laws of the country, it can face he…

Yesterday, news broke via Bloomberg that Google and the European Union have settled over the anti-trust probe regarding rival links in the search results.

Google will dodge EU fines and any finding that it discriminated against competing sites…
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Last night, Google announced earnings – the results were mixed where revenue targets were beat but earnings-per-share was lower than targets. In after hours trading last night…

You may have heard that Google was ordered to pay a patent troll 1.36% of their AdWords revenue between 2012 to 2016. That comes out to about $1 billion or so.

Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land

Google announced yesterday that they acquired Nest for $3.2 billion (yes billion) in cash. You read that right…

In 2009, Google News began reindexing and refreshing stories after they were initially indexed, to make sure to pick up on story corrections. This was a good thing.

But recently…

I am sure you’ve all seen Google’s stock price soar to $1,011 on the closing bell on Friday. For stock owners, they are very happy. For Google employees, they are very happy. But for their advertisers and partners…

Google announced earnings last week and for the first time in a long time, those earnings did not beat expectations.

The main concern from investors is the 6% drop in cost per click (CPC) prices. While we’ve seen a 2-4% decrease in those prices……

I assume by now you’ve all heard about the U.S. government program named PRISM, where the National Security Agency (NSA) claimed to have direct access to Google, Yahoo, Verizon, etc servers of data…

Google announced earnings last night and reported revenues of $14 billion and profits of about $3.5 billion for their first quarter of 2013. The key highlights for search marketers are on paid clicks and cost-per-click…

As you may have heard via the Wall Street Journal or New York Times or Search Engine Land – Google has settled with the European Union after a 2-3 year probe.

The settlement will require Google to:

(1) Clearly label Google’s own results in the organi…