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Google may be a company of many personalities — browser and operating system developer, connected-device manufacturer, fiber-optic Internet servicer, search giant and social network, among many others. But the core business is still about one thing: Advertising, as calendar first quarter results, delivered today after the closing bell, show.<\/p>\n
Revenue rose 31 percent to $$13.97 billion, year over year; operating income, excluding Traffic Acquisition Costs, was $3.48 billion, up from $3.39 billion. Net income climbed to 3.35 billion up from $2.89 billion. That’s $9.94 earnings per share, including costs associated with discontinued operations.<\/p>\n
Average analyst consensus was $14.04 billion revenue and $10.69 earnings per share, for the quarter. Revenue estimates ranged from $9.81 billion to $15.12 billion, with estimated year-over-year growth of 72.5 percent.<\/p>\n
“We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14 billion in revenue, up 31 percent year-on-year” Larry Page, Google CEO, says. “We are working hard and investing in our products that aim to improve billions of people’s lives all around the world”.<\/p>\n
Turn the Page<\/strong><\/p>\n First quarter marks just a few days short Larry Page’s second anniversary returning as CEO (April 4). Google’s master had a busy quarter. The company:<\/p>\n That’s just a short, short list of the many strategic actions or adjustments made in just one quarter.<\/p>\n There is clear consolidation underway as the CEO brings trusted executives — those with whom he resonates or who share his vision — closer to the inner circle. Meanwhile, a\u00a0different Google emerges as Page’s vision, and that of his lieutenants, propagates — one that: cross-integrates more products and services, releases updates at faster pace and is much, much, much more aggressive in the market place. The Google you thought you knew is something else.<\/p>\n Financial Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n TAC.<\/strong>\u00a0Google’s financials include Traffic Acquisition Costs — that’s revenue shared with partners. For Q1: $2.96 billion, compared to $2.51 billion a year earlier. TAC was one-quarter of revenue in both quarters.<\/p>\n Paid Clicks<\/strong>\u00a0increased 20 percent year over year and 3 percent sequentially.<\/p>\n Cost-Per-Click<\/strong>\u00a0rose 4 percent yearly and quarterly.<\/p>\n International:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.5 billion outside the United States, accounting for 55 percent of revenues — that’s up 1 percent by year and quarter.<\/p>\n Motorola Mobile revenues reached<\/strong>\u00a0$1.02 billion, or 7 percent for consolidated Google results.<\/p>\n Google revenue<\/strong>\u00a0(excluding Motorola) was $12.95 billion — that’s up from 22 percent from $10.65 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n Google-owned sites:<\/strong>\u00a0$8.64 billion, up 18 percent from $7.31 billion.<\/p>\n Google Network (e.g., partner sites):<\/strong>\u00a0$3.26 billion, up 12 percent from $2.91 billion.<\/p>\n Other:<\/strong>\u00a0$1.05 billion, up 150 percent from $420 million.<\/p>\n MORE TO COME<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0meneame comunicacions, sl<\/a><\/p>\n Google may be a company of many personalities — browser and operating system developer, connected-device manufacturer, fiber-optic Internet servicer, search giant and social network, among many others. But the core business is still about one thing: Advertising, as calendar first quarter results, delivered today after the closing bell, show. Revenue rose 31 percent to $$13.97 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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