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Had to chuckle at their breaking out earnings into "including fines" and "excluding fines" categories.
It's intended to show an underlying trend of continued growth. That's the story they want Wall St to absorb.
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You've been posting mainly inflammatory comments about Google and Facebook. Could you please try switching it up? > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Serious question. How is it that Google makes billions of dollars on ads and newspapers that depend on ads are suffering?
$5B in EU fines. Ouch.
It hurt, but they still made 3 bil. If they have to pay 5 billion once a year to ensure they have a monopoly I don't that that is a bad trade for them.
Why would the fine be annual? Fines aren't a tax you pay so you can continuously break the law. I would imagine if Google doesn't remedy the specific behaviors the EU has issues with, the EU will move on to more severe sanctions.
Strong headcount growth versus other FANG-like companies.
Is the A Apple or Amazon? No one is anywhere close to Amazon in headcount growth.
So the answer would be both.
Fines are becoming a common expense, they should list them as a cost of doing business. They aren't tax deductible for US purposes so you are taxed on pre-fine income.
Honest question: First time reading quarter results. How do I interpret these results?
Revenue: sales recorded. This might or might not represent cash coming through the door in this quarter, but it represents that there is an agreement for cash and goods/services to change hands. Operating income: Money left over after you subtract the costs of operating the business and making the sale. In a manufacturing firm, for example, you would subtract the cost of the materials in the goods sold. For Google th…
I think that it’s pretty obvious and needless. What’s the consequence of not having a disclaimer? Internet has a lot of noise and it is the responsibility of the reader. I never understood why people have to say this.
Same goes for “I am not a Doctor”.
Are there any legal ramifications to:
A) Comment has legal terminology and kind of sounds like legal advice but has no disclaimer.
B) What if someone falsefully claims they’re a Lawyer and puts out a comment on the internet?
I am bothered by this since the dawn of the internet and never understood it.
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I'm not sure it's the surveillance that makes Google earn so much. I would think the main reason is that search traffic is so valuable to advertisers.
Their whole business model is a targeting advertisement, and targeting comes from the snooping: what you do, what you eat, what you read, where you are.
Mass surveillance of billions of people pays off handsomely. Google and Facebook are the only two businesses that prosper on ads, while your local newspapers, specialized websites, and journalism in general are dying.
You've been posting mainly inflammatory comments about Google and Facebook. Could you please try switching it up? > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
New account because you two continually ban me for this type of thing. I get this is mostly a site for the cult of the founder, but this is still a pretty lame response to one of the bigger issues in this industry.
Fines are becoming a common expense, they should list them as a cost of doing business. They aren't tax deductible for US purposes so you are taxed on pre-fine income.
Perhaps they should take a quarterly charge in anticipation of future fines.
DO wish US regulators would wake up at some point, but their bribes (sorry, lobbying dollars) are paid on time.
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These are not inflammatory comments. These are facts about two monopolies, that are dangerous for society and for the internet in general. Plus there is this important thing called privacy of the individual.
> These are facts about two monopolies If you poke through my comments, you'll find we share antipathy for Facebook and, to a less degree, Google. That antipathy, however, is an opinion. Not a fact. Neither Facebook nor Google are monopolies by any common definition. Their business models disagree with our values. But a lot of Americans do as well. Your comments forego the debate necessary to establish agreement, and…