Comments on: Google: What Economic Crisis?

By: David H Deans

David H Deans — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:56:03 +0000

It sure helps that they choose not to waste money on traditional mass media advertising. How many other company’s balance sheets would see an upside if they only said NO to throwing cash down the legacy money pit.

By: Weekend Update, 10/17/08 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:32 +0000

[...] finally, Google (GOOG) reported third-quarter earnings that beat expectations, proving it’s doing relatively well in the current economic downturn. So far. Print [...]

By: T M

T M — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:59:30 +0000

It looks like GOOG cut cap ex by $246 million quarter to quarter. Which works out to a net bumping of the quarter’s EPS by $.77 cents (318 million shares). That would make the non-GAAP EPS $4.15—a huge miss compared to the analysts’ estimates of $4.76