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...dominant global market share in PC, server, and enterprise products used by large companies and governments. Microsoft is no longer considered a growth stock by Wall St., but it remains one of the most impressive corporate cash flow machines in the world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone on for a year. Microsoft had a short interest of 88.4 million shares as of April 15 down 10%. The company has almost 9 billion...
...Investors are still concerned that Google (GOOG) can do a great deal of damage to some of Microsoft's most important enterprises. The search company has created products which could compete with Microsoft's big money makers, but, so far Google has had very little success in getting adoption for its software tools. The world may use Google for search, free maps, and free news, but it ends there...
...results of both companies put side by side are a true indication of what the recession has done to the media, old and new. With the exception of Google (GOOG), the life has gone out of the business of making big profits in the content business. Since Google is only a content aggregator, it does not qualify for the sake of comparison...
When Google (GOOG) reported earnings, earnings which were extraordinary during a poor economic period, for the first quarter, the company's chatty CEO Eric Schmidt said "Google had a good quarter given the depth of the recession - while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year thanks to continued strong query growth. These results underline both the resilience of our business model and the ongoing potential of the web as users and advertisers shift online." What he did not bother to mention is that no business model is any good at all without customers. Google...
Most of the recent news about Google (GOOG) has been bad. Online advertising posted a slow fourth quarter. That unexpectedly included both display ads and search marketing which has made Google one of the fastest growing large companies in America. Several Wall St. analysts have commented that Google's search revenue's rate of increase flattened out in January and February. Since the consensus among experts who cover the company is that revenue will rise 11% in the first quarter, a flat quarter would be devastating...