Saturday, February 28, 2009

Google

Google Inc.
Type Public
NASDAQ: GOOG
LSE: GGEA
Founded Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)[1]
Founder(s) Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View, California,
United States
Area served Worldwide
Key people Dr. Eric E. Schmidt
(Chairman) & (CEO)
Sergey Brin
(Technology President)
Larry Page
(Products President)
Industry Internet, Computer software
Products See list of Google products
Market cap US$ 96.472 Billion - At market close on January 22, 2009
Revenue 31.3% US$ 21.796 Billion (2008)[2]
Operating income 30.4% US$ 6.632 Billion (2008)[2]
Net income .6% US$ 4.227 Billion (2008)[2]
Total assets US$ 31.768 Billion (2008)[2]
Total equity US$ 28.239 Billion (2008)[2]
Employees 20,222 - December 31, 2008[3]
Website Google.com

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. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of December 31, 2008, the company has 20,222 full-time employees.[3]

Google was co-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 US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$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 latter resulting in being identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work.[4] The unofficial company slogan is "Don't be evil", although criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, censorship and discontinuation of services. According to Millward Brown, it is the most powerful brand in the

No comments:

Post a Comment