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Safe signals from Buffett's train deal...Microsoft, the fact that Mr Gates and Susan Decker, the former Yahoo executive, sit on his board, and his warm words about Google and its co-founders. He insists he does not understand such companies well enough and is not confident about... In this article: Warren Buffett, US, BNSF, Capitalism, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Gates, Silicon Valley, Competitive advantage, and Business partner |
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Fool.com: The Motley Fool | October 23, 2009
Buffett's Wrong: 3 Companies That Beat His
...may not contain. Remember, "too big to fail" doesn't mean "too big to underperform." Even Buffett and Charlie Munger have marveled at Google's moat. What they found especially remarkable was how quickly that moat was created. A decade...
In this article: Warren Buffett, Wells Fargo, NYSE, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Balance sheet, Financial crisis, Bear Stearns, and Borders
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Not Listening to Buffett Cost Me Thousands
...enterprising culture, superior advertising platform, and brand loyalty. Given its growth rate ever since and its powerful business model, it was underpriced back then. Buffett didn't buy Google. Sadly, neither did I -- a decision that has...
In this article: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, NYSE, Competitive advantage, Coca-Cola, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Wynn Resorts, ExxonMobil, and AIG
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CNN | 5 days ago
Shut up, Lloyd Blankfein!
...end. So it's no wonder that Blankfein has turned the spin cycle on over the past few months to try and send the message that Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) is the Wall Street equivalent of Google, i.e. it won't do evil. On Tuesday,...
In this article: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, TARP, Wall Street, God, Cnnmoney.com, U.S. Bancorp, and Wells Fargo
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | July 13, 2009
Morgan Stanley publish teen's paper on Twitter and mobiles
...figures, philanthropists and media executives. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Tony Blair and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have all attended the conference in the past. His three-page report broke down the different mediums...
In this article: Twitter, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, Bill Gates, File sharing, BBC Iplayer, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page
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Berkshire Hathaway for $68? Sweet!
...for about $550. So sticker shock hasn't scared investors away. Google famously quoted Warren Buffett in its filings with the SEC when it first planned to go public. But now that Berkshire has announced the previously unthinkable and is...
In this article: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Priceline.com, IBM, Apple, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Amazon.com, Cnnmoney.com, and Recession
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kottke.org | September 01, 2009
Who won the recession?
...won the recession? Vanity Fair has released their 2009 list of the "top 100 Information Age powers"...Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and the Google triumvirate make up the top five. Only 12 women made the...
In this article: Recession, RSS, Liberal arts, Lloyd Blankfein, Twitter, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs
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Seeking Alpha | August 26, 2009
The 'Super Rich' Are Still with Us
...York Times detailed the recession's financial blows to the super rich. Gates, Buffet, the Wal-Mart heirs, and Google's founders each lost billions over the past two years. Many of the not-as-super rich lost a chunk of their equity too. Per...
In this article: Recession, Ben Bernanke, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, United States, Inflation, CNBC, and Ted Turner
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Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. , the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of $23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work, and as the most powerful brand in the world. Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website on the Internet.
- Name:
- Google Inc.
- Type:
- NASDAQ: GOOG
- Location City:
- Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- GOOG
- Industry:
- Internet, Computer software
- Key People:
- Products:
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- See list of Google products
- Help
- Google Labs
- Google Services & Tools
- Google Web Search Features
- Revenue:
- 31.3% $ 21.796 billion
- Operating Income:
- 30.4% $ 6.632 billion
- Net Income:
- .6% $ 4.227 billion
- Assets:
- $ 31.768 billion
- Equity:
- $ 28.239 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 19,665 –
- Motto:
- Don't be evil
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