4. Categories

      Key Topics: Applications, Business Models, IP Telephony, Marketing, Mobility, Unified communications

  5. About Google

    Google Inc. (GOOG and GGEA) is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31 2007).


    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 7, 1998. Google's 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 Google's growth, the latter resulting in being identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work. The company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil", however Google is not without controversy related to its business practices; there are concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, censorship, and discontinuation of services.

  7. Quotes about Google

    1. “ Google and Skype and Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and some of the open-source players pose a threat. ”
      In Google, Skype Put Cable Biz Phone Service at Risk
    2. “ When asked which mobile operating system has the greatest potential to be the U.S. de facto standard in five years, Google's open source Android operating system was the runaway favorite with 43 percent of all votes, more than double the score of the next highest finisher. ”
      In By 2012, "Closed" Mobile Business Will be Over
    3. “ From what we've heard, Google is very seriously planning to add a version of the Google Voice product to its Apps suite of applications for businesses. ”
      Michael Arrington in What Business is Google In?