LIVE: Google's Q4 Earnings - Business Insider

? Revenue: $14.42 billion vs. $12.36 billion

? Non-GAAP EPS: $10.65 vs. $10.52.

? CPC was down 6% year over year, but up 2% q/q, arresting what had been a quarterly decline for the past several quarters.

That's a decent beat, and the stock is up 3%.

?We ended 2012 with a strong quarter,? CEO Larry Page said in a canned quote.

?Revenues were up 36% year-on-year, and 8% quarter-on-quarter. And we hit $50 billion in revenues for the first time last year ? not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half. In today?s multi-screen world we face tremendous opportunities as a technology company focused on user benefit. It?s an incredibly exciting time to be at Google.?

Google will have an earnings call to discuss the earnings starting around 4:30pm.

5:03 PM | Bernstein: What have been majoe driver of deceleration of Google sites. Second, for TAC, grew less than we've seen. What driven?

Patrick: On Google sites, quite a bit of noise because of FX. Overall, pleased with growth around 20%, last quarter more headwinds. We are pleased with YouTube business. Despite FX noise, which carriers over to sites, we're pleased with overall growth.

On TAC, as we said, we think of TAC, it's distribution and it's worth paying for. Our apps across, and it's true for mobile. All of the mobile is thriving to the extent that it is. Nothing new here, but excited by the trends.

4:59 PM | Other highlights...

NA growth was robust. Asia was steady.

Southern Europe softer.

Enterprise gaining traction.

4:57 PM | YouTube and display...

Video baked into core of all our products.

YouTube well positioned for changing viewing habits. Increase in engagement from redesign. Available across mobile devices and connected devices.

Outside estimates of Gangnam generated $8 million in revenue.

Channel partners on YT doing six figures.

Strong signal of the power of YT to reach viewers.

4:55 PM | Major retailers using us for mobile ads.

4:54 PM | We're making shopping more stress free and fun.

4:54 PM | Our vision for search: Know what you mean and what you want and deliver it across all devices.

4:54 PM | We're pleased with y/y growth. Advertising firing on all cyclinders.

Top 25 advertisers spend $150 million per year on average.

4:53 PM | Fund strategic growth in Chrome, Android, Search, YouTube.

4:52 PM | Cash flow was $3.7 billion.

4:52 PM | CapEx data center, production equipment.

4:51 PM | Headcount up 300 people for the quarter.

4:49 PM | He mentioned this slide to talk about hedging program.

4:48 PM | Currency had a moderate negative impact on CPC.

Would have been down 4% y/y if not for that.

4:47 PM | Pichette on Motorola

At the very beginning. No one should be surprised if results are variable. We're working thru a 12-18 month product pipeline.

4:46 PM | Reading numbers from earnings...

I can't live blog these, I will miss stuff. So I will grab important numbers/ideas.

4:45 PM | Look at overall business financial performance.

Motorola home operations is presented as discontinued operations, it makes y/y and q/q comps harder.

4:44 PM | Now, Patrick takes over. (His voice is normal.)

4:43 PM | We don't want to spread ourselves too thin. Will be able to grow our ambitions. That's why I'm here and why Googlers are here.

4:43 PM | I am incredibly optimistic about the opportunities we have.

Every day I come to work excited about what we're doing. Build world changing products. Ambitious plans we have are only just getting started.

4:42 PM | Lots of opportunity...

Smartphones should have better batteries. Phones shouldn't go splat.

4:41 PM | Information on Motorola coming in a bit.

4:41 PM | Google Play ? another big bet is on fire.

Deals with Time and Warner Music Group, deals with movies, music and publishers, not even Play's 1 year anniversary.

4:40 PM | We launched Nexus 4 and Nexus 10. Nexus 7 continues to define the 7-inch category for tablets.

Could do better managing supply. Considering holiday excitement, there is a tremendous opportunity.

4:39 PM | Talking Chromebook

I love mine. Takes care of itself.

4:39 PM | We now live in a multiscreen world.

We feel naked w. out our smartphones. Many users have a latop, phone, tablet, we are in "uncharted" territory. Faster adoption than ever before. That's why we put so much focus on devices. One of our biggest bets. As well as software. Best of Google in one easy to use package.

4:38 PM | Long term investments in Google Maps have really paid off.

Most accurate and comprehensive maps in the world. A few years ago driving around the world to map it out might seem crazy. Today, makes sense.

Google Maps for iOS reinvigorated the product. It was downloaded over 10 million times in 48 hours. In fact, Google Maps are [loved by iOS users].

4:36 PM | Page talking about search...

Knowledge graph is bringing perfect search closer. Search for Nikola Tesla, you get this beautiful page of results. No need to look further.

Last quarter knowledge graph in seven new languages.

4:35 PM | Larry Page's voice sounds messed up.

4:33 PM | We're starting! Larry Page, Nikesh Arora, Patrick Pichette on the call.

4:23 PM | In the meanwhile, take a look at Motorola's sales. Down on a sequential basis for the holiday quarter.

4:22 PM | Hey there! We're going to live blog earnings shortly...

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/live-googles-q4-earnings-2013-1

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health Educates Its Own Self, Desires A Arctic Holiday Vacation

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Obtaining continual access to new info and recent health information is an thrilling part of modern day daily life. But just lately there have been a number of e-mail hoaxes and net cons that have resulted in a more cautious public when it arrives to locating out the most recent in overall health bulletins. Your best bet when searching for health-related information on the web is a site that does not endeavor to offer anything at all and does not need a compensated membership to see the contents.

Email messages are nonetheless the amount one source for health care misinformation. A fairly disturbing electronic mail hoax that created the rounds just lately told folks that they were receiving a virus from packing containers mailed from a certain organization. The company been given countless calls inquiring about the "virus" and there were a amount of folks that not only called but asked the place their bins ended up, stating that they were clients of the firm and inclined to danger the imaginary virus in order to get the nonexistent box.

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Some internet sites in fact request for funds prior to they give you answers. Membership costs, solution charges, or accessibility expenses are all names for basically charging you for data that ought to be publicly obtainable to all. Most medical data is accessible through search engines but it can be a bit laborious slogging by means of all the search motor outcomes. It is great to have one website that you can do a lookup on for a distinct theme or just evaluation current health news, but not if the goal of the internet site is to make funds off of you. There are several substantial high quality websites that you can accessibility that offer exceptional medical details and news with no charging you.

Be confident and be cautious when searching for up to date medical information and details. Find a trustworthy website that does not demand you, and make sure that you take all email notifications with much more than a grain of salt.

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Twin F35 Fighters Suckling on the Sweet Milk of Freedom

Aerial refueling is an invaluable technique, not only extending a jet's operational endurance, it allows for more and heavier equipment to be carried than would otherwise be possible. Since its inception in the biplane era, this technology has developed into what you see here: two F-35C Lightning II jets attached to the business end of a Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules. At the same time. That's a first. More »

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Samsung keeps lagging in the Windows Phone race

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It could be that Samsung (005930) simply does not care, but the world?s biggest smartphone brand is off to a notably weak start in the Windows Phone 8 race. On a British website tracking handset sales across all UK carriers, Nokia?s (NOK) Lumia 920 is at No.5 and the Lumia 820 is at No.10. Samsung?s ATIV S does not crack the top-10 list.

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At Expansys UK, the black Lumia 920 holds the top spot on the best-seller list and the yellow Lumia 920 is on the pre-order list; there are no Samsung Windows Phone models on the best-seller list, while the gray ATIV S is at No.8 on pre-order list.

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At Expansys Germany, there are three Lumia models ahead of the ATIV S. Even at Expansys France, several Nokia or HTC (2498) models trump the ATIV S on best-seller and pre-order lists. Samsung?s brand has been stronger in France than in the UK or Germany over the past couple of years.

Two Lumias made it to?Dial A Phone?s?most popular list, but the ATIV S does not. Lumias also trump the ATIV S on the most popular phone lists from?Phonehouse Germany and UK. The big British site Phones 4 U splashes two Lumias on its front page list of eight contract models ? no ATIV S in sight.

Samsung clearly had a slower start in Windows Phone 8 market, with Nokia rolling out the Lumia 920 in November and HTC getting its budget phone, the Windows Phone 8S, out by the third week of December. But it?s striking that in the third week of January, Samsung still appears to lag behind Lumia models and in many cases HTC?s Windows range. Usually, newer launches tend to pop in the sales charts at least for a couple of weeks; and Samsung typically gets its models strong placement in Europe?s leading handset retail websites.

It is possible that Samsung simply wants to prioritize the hot Galaxy S III and Note II models; and these two are being promoted strongly by European carriers and retailers. Regardless of the reason why, the ATIV S? surprisingly weak showing seems to be giving Nokia and HTC room to exploit the marketing support that carriers are allocating to Windows Phone 8.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-keeps-lagging-windows-phone-race-191418804.html

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Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan marries in RI

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ? Olympic medalist figure skater Michelle Kwan and Clay Pell, a grandson of the late Sen. Claiborne Pell, have married in Rhode Island.

The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/VCCver ) that Kwan and Pell married at the First Unitarian Church in Providence. About 250 guests attended, including Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY-'fee) and his wife, Stephanie.

Uniformed police officers stood guard outside the church as the 32-year-old Kwan and her bridesmaid emerged from a club across the street from the church.

Pell, a lawyer and Coast Guard lieutenant, works on the national security staff at the White House.

Kwan is a public policy envoy with the State Department and the most decorated figure skater in American history. She won 43 championships, the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and bronze at the 2002 Games.

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Information from: The Providence Journal, http://www.providencejournal.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympic-medalist-michelle-kwan-marries-ri-173430685--spt.html

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Titan gets a dune 'makeover'

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Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan ? Saturn's largest moon ? may look much younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased. Dunes of exotic, hydrocarbon sand are slowly but steadily filling in its craters, according to new research using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

"Most of the Saturnian satellites ? Titan's siblings ? have thousands and thousands of craters on their surface. So far on Titan, of the 50 percent of the surface that we've seen in high resolution, we've only found about 60 craters," said Catherine Neish, a Cassini radar team associate based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "It's possible that there are many more craters on Titan, but they are not visible from space because they are so eroded. We typically estimate the age of a planet's surface by counting the number of craters on it (more craters means an older surface). But if processes like stream erosion or drifting sand dunes are filling them in, it's possible that the surface is much older that it appears."

"This research is the first quantitative estimate of how much the weather on Titan has modified its surface," adds Neish.

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere, and the only world besides Earth known to have lakes and seas on its surface. However, with a frigid surface temperature of around minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (94 kelvins), the rain that falls from Titan's skies is not water but instead liquid methane and ethane, compounds that are normally gases on Earth.

Neish and her team made the discovery by comparing craters on Titan to craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Ganymede is a giant moon with a water ice crust, similar to Titan, so craters on the two moons should have similar shapes. However, Ganymede has almost no atmosphere and thus no wind or rain to erode its surface.

"We found that craters on Titan were on average hundreds of yards (meters) shallower than similarly sized craters on Ganymede, suggesting that some process on Titan is filling its craters," says Neish, who is lead author of a paper about this research published online in the journal Icarus Dec. 3, 2012.

The team used the average depth-versus-diameter trend for craters on Ganymede derived from stereo images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The same trend for craters on Titan was calculated using estimates of the crater depth from data derived from images made by Cassini's radar instrument.

Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen with a trace of methane and other, more complex molecules made of hydrogen and carbon (hydrocarbons). The source of Titan's methane remains a mystery because methane in the atmosphere is broken down over relatively short timescales by sunlight. Fragments of methane molecules then recombine into more complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere, forming a thick, orange smog that hides the surface from view. Some of the larger particles eventually rain out on to the surface, where they appear to get bound together to form the sand.

"Since the sand appears to be produced from the atmospheric methane, Titan must have had methane in its atmosphere for at least several hundred million years in order to fill craters to the levels we are seeing," says Neish. However, researchers estimate Titan's current supply of methane should be broken down by sunlight within tens of millions of years, so Titan either had a lot more methane in the past, or it is being replenished somehow.

Team members say it's possible that other processes could be filling the craters on Titan: erosion from the flow of liquid methane and ethane for example. However, this type of weathering tends to fill a crater quickly at first, then more slowly as the crater rim gets worn down and less steep. If liquid erosion were primarily responsible for the infill, then the team would expect to see a lot of partially filled craters on Titan. "However, this is not the case," says Neish. "Instead we see craters at all stages; some just beginning to be filled in, some halfway, and some that are almost completely full. This suggests a process like windblown sand, which fills craters and other features at a steady rate."

All solid materials under stress flow very slowly over time. This is called viscous flow, and it is like what happens when someone takes a scoop out of a fresh tub of whipped cream -- the material slowly flows in to fill the hole and flatten the surface. Craters on icy satellites tend to get shallower over time as the ice flows viscously, so it's possible that some of the shallow craters on Titan are simply much older or experienced a higher heat flow than the similarly sized, fresh craters on Ganymede studied in this work.

However, Titan's crust is mostly water ice, and at the extremely low temperatures on Titan, ice shouldn't flow enough to account for such a large difference in depth compared to the Ganymede craters, according to the team. Also, just like stream erosion, deformation from viscous flow tends to happen rapidly at first, then more slowly as the material adjusts, so one would expect to see a lot of partially filled craters on Titan if its surface was deforming easily through viscous flow.

As Cassini flies past Titan on its multi-year tour of Saturn and its moons, the radar instrument gradually builds up a map of the surface. To date, the instrument has provided data in strips covering approximately 50 percent of Titan's surface. The craters measured by the team are all within about 30 degrees of the equator, a relatively dry region on Titan.

"However, the presence of liquids on the surface and in the near subsurface can also cause extensive modification to crater shape, as is observed on Earth," says Neish. "In the case of Titan, liquids consist of hydrocarbons, either as wet sediments (such as those observed at the Huygens landing site) or shallow marine environments (such as the lakes observed at the north and south poles). Craters formed in similar environments on Earth lack any significant surface topography, including the absence of a raised rim, as wet sediments slump into the crater. It is possible that the lack of topography associated with marine-target impacts may help to explain the relative scarcity of impact craters observed near the poles of Titan. If Titan's polar regions are saturated by liquid hydrocarbons, craters formed in those regions may lack any recognizable topographic expression."

The team thinks these considerations are good areas for more research, but based on the data so far, the difference in depth between craters on Titan and Ganymede is best explained by filling from windblown sand, although erosion from liquids and viscous flow might contribute to the modification of Titan's craters.

NASA's Cassini mission, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and the NASA Postdoctoral Program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities, funded the research.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the US and several European countries.

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