After assuming charge in April, Google CEO, Larry Page (also the co-founder of the internet major) announced that the company witnessed another great quarter. He seemed particularly intrigued by the response that the company's latest product focused on social networking, Google+ received and declared, that the network did indeed register 10 million users within two weeks of its launch, who have shared more than 1 billion items of content. He also informed investors that Google's mobile operating system platform, Android was performing well, with 550,000 device activations taking place every day. He added that there are 135 million devices running Android; 400 device models on offer across 231 mobile carriers in 123 countries, and six billion app downloads from the Android Market application store. Results Google reported revenues of $9.03 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, an increase of 32% compared to the second quarter of 2010. The company's net income in the second quarter increased $2.85 billion (up 36% year on year). Operating income was $2.88 billion or 32% of revenues. Traffic acquisition cost declined marginally at 24% of advertising revenues or $2.11 billion. - Google owned sites vs network: Google-owned sites generated revenues of $6.23 billion, or 69% of total revenues, a 39% increase year on year from $4.50 billion. - Network Revenues from partner sites (through AdSense programs) were $2.48 billion, or 28% of total revenues, in the second quarter of 2011, a 20% increase year on year from $2.06 billion. - US vs International…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...