Well, it looks like Larry Page had a bit of good news and some bad news to deal with on his first quarterly earnings call as CEO of Google. The company has just reported $8.58 billion in gross revenue for the first quarter of 2011, which represents a 27 percent increase over the first quarter of last year, but is actually a bit less than analysts were expecting. That figure also doesn't include the company's so-called traffic acquisition costs, however, which totaled $2.04 billion for the quarter and bring the company's actual revenue down to "just" $6.54 billion. Net income for the quarter was $2.3 billion, which represents a more modest gain from $1.96 billion in the first quarter of 2010. Also cutting into profits quite a bit was Google's operating expenses, which were up a hefty 33 percent to $2.8 billion -- a sizable chunk of which went to the nearly 2,000 new employees the company hired during the quarter.
Interestingly, Google also revealed a few Android stats during its earnings call, saying that app downloads are up a full fifty percent from the fourth quarter of 2010, and that there's a total of three billion Android apps installed worldwide. As for Android devices, there's apparently 350,000 of those being activated every day. Head on past the break for company's full earnings report.
14 comments:
Thats a whole crap load of money!
wowzers!
Cool
theyre so rich, i wish i had that much money
they're richer than many country!
damn i wish i had a peice of that pie! google are so smart and inventive
Thats a lot of money, Google is just crazy.
wow, i wish google would lend me a million
Give me my money Google. I'm sure I deserve it by now.
Wow, that is a lot of money.
jesus that's a boatload of money.
8 billion plus still falls short of their expectations?!
Wow, that is amazing! Google owns this very blog site too... :)
excellent revenue. do want
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