Google is slated to report second-quarter earnings after the bell this afternoon, with analysts expecting the company to post strong profit and sales growth. Though you’d think the economic slowdown would ill-effect the advertising revenue underpinning the company, Google (GOOG) has yet to report such an impact. Analysts expect Google’s earnings to jump 33 percent to $4.74 per share, from $3.56 per share in the year-ago quarter, on continued strong growth in search advertising.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
