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29 Apr 2010 09:45

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s huge profits somehow not good enough

  • $6.3
    billion
    the size of Exxon Mobil’s
    quarterly profits, helped by rising
    oil prices of late
  • 38%
    increase
    from last year’s levels
    an increase which missed Wall Street’s hefty estimates source

29 Apr 2010 09:38

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Tech: Them’s fighting words: Yahoo’s CEO rips Google really hard

  • Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for search. It is only half our business; it’s 99.9% of their business. They’ve got to find other things to do.
  • Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz • Talking smack to the king of the hill today. Google does tons of other stuff, though! They have e-mail (just like Yahoo), a news site (just like Yahoo), a maps app (just like Yahoo), a photo site (just like Yahoo), a social networking site (just like Yahoo) and, unlike Yahoo, a hand in the mobile sphere. And, unlike Yahoo, they don’t have the rep of getting bogged down by all of the extracurricular activities, or (more importantly) of being a place where “startups go to die,” as TechCrunch recently put it. So, while Google is in need of other revenue streams, Yahoo may not be the right company to give them crap. source