Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) 01 (May 08 - Jul 17)

[kennynah]

AOL is probably to the americans...what singtel is to us...

national pride ....

[winston]

Jim Cramer is too emotional. Follow his recommendations at your own risk. A good investor should always keep a cool head at all times ...

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Cramer: Google to Hit $600 Per Share By: Gene J. Koprowski

CNBC Mad Money program host Jim Cramer has placed the highest price target on Wall Street for Google with a value of $600 per share, or 20 percent higher than stock’s current price.

Cramer said Google’s earnings per share (EPS) will be $30 per share and the company’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio around 20.

Cramer said the company is both a cyclical and secular gainer and it has a “fabulous balance sheet.”

Cramer, based on this reasoning, said Google is currently “inexpensive.”

Cramer points out Google is enjoying the effects of the broader economic recovery and still dominates in Internet search globally.

Other analysts are enthusiastic about Google, but not to the same extent as Cramer.

Brokerage firm Canaccord Adams this week raised its share price target on Google, predicting the fourth quarter could have much more upside than Wall Street has predicted.

The brokers have a "buy" rating on the Internet search firm's stock, and this week raised the price target by $80 to $560.

Canaccord said its recent research indicates that advertising budgets were making a comeback, particularly in e-commerce. This economic recovery, coupled with strong traffic growth, is promising for the sector.

"We would therefore recommend that investors add to their positions ahead of the fourth quarter, given that the widely anticipated pullback in the broader market has not materialized," analyst Jeff Rath wrote in a research note to clients.

Google continues to maintain its leadership in Internet search, but it is also “monetizing” YouTube search more than earlier, analyst Rath said.

Google executives recently added a new option that allows marketers to buy search ads on the YouTube interface.

© 2009 Newsmax.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/companies/ ... 64196.html

[kennynah]

cramer is a tv personality....and quite a clown....

i used to watch his shows just to hear the featured companies ... but ignore his recommendations...

[millionairemind]

November 20, 2009, 10.10 am (Singapore time)

Google PC will start in 7 seconds or less

* Google Chrome operating system is nearly instant on
* Chrome is cloud-based software - stores data on Web
* Says Chrome will run initially on certain netbooks

MOUNTAIN VIEW - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC's main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc.

True to Google's Internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a Web browser more than it does a traditional computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, matching Google's ambition to drive people to the Web - where they can see Google ads.

Google said the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that meet Google's hardware specifications, such as using only memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current standard.

Netbooks running Chrome OS will only be able to run Web applications and the user's data will automatically be stored on the Web in the so-called cloud of Internet servers, Google executives said at an event at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters on Thursday.

'It's basically a Web browsing machine,' said Altimeter Group analyst Charlene Li, referring to the netbooks powered by Chrome OS.

Such a machine is made for a world of near-constant, extremely fast Web connection, without the type of software that made Microsoft famous, since most of the work would be done by big machines on the Web which take directions and send information to relatively uncomplicated devices like a Chrome PC.

Sundar Pichai, vice-president of product management for Google's Chrome OS, said that computers running Chrome OS will be able to start in less than seven seconds.

'From the time you press boot you want it to be like a TV: You turn it on and you should be on the Web using your applications,' he said.

More web use drives more Google ads
Google said it is giving away the software for free, similar to its Android smartphone software, with the idea that improving the Web experience will ultimately benefit its Internet search advertising business, which generated roughly US$22 billion in revenue in 2008.

'They're doing it to get further and further entrenched in whatever people are doing to go online, whether that's a browser, an operating system or in applications,' said Todd Greenwald, an analyst with Signal Hill Group.

'If Chrome is the OS then the attach (access) rate on Google searches will be a lot higher,' he said.

But analysts noted that the differences between conventional PCs and Chrome OS netbooks might give some consumers pause.

'If they view it from the conventional perspective, then it falls short,' Gartner analyst Ray Valdes said of Chrome OS, citing its lack of compatibility with traditional software and its limited offline capabilities.

Google officials said Chrome OS netbooks will be able to provide some functions when offline, but that the product was primarily designed to be connected to the Internet.

But Mr Valdes said if Google can deliver on the products' promises, such as fast performance, then consumers may view Chrome OS netbooks as distinct class of products with attractive benefits.

'I think that it's initially going to appeal to small subset of the general consumer population,' he said. 'The question is can they build on that and expand that over time.'

Google made the computer code for the Chrome OS available to outside developers on Thursday, allowing developers to tinker with the software and potentially design new applications to run alongside it.

With Chrome, Google is seeking to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Corp's Windows, which runs on nine out of 10 personal computers.

The Chrome OS also challenges makers of traditional, desktop software, including Microsoft and its lucrative Office suite of productivity software, since Chrome OS only runs Web applications.

Google's Mr Pichai, noted during a demonstration on Thursday, that Chrome OS-based PCs would be interoperable with Web-based versions of software, such as Microsoft's online version of its Excel spreadsheet.

Google said all data in Chrome will automatically be housed in the so-called cloud, or on external servers, but also cached on the computer's internal hardware to boost performance.

If a person loses their netbook, Google engineering director Matt Papakipos explained, they can buy a new one, log in and within seconds have a machine with access to all the same data as their previous device.

'What really makes this a cloud device is that all the user data is synced back to the cloud in real time,' said Mr Papakipos.

Shares of Mountain View, California-based Google fell US$3.66 to US$572.99 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq. -- REUTERS

[kennynah]

cramer is a tv personality....and quite a clown....

i used to watch his shows just to hear the featured companies ... but ignore his recommendations...

and thsi was a joke i heard about cramer...

GS started making money after he left them...

[millionairemind]

I am sure BaiDu is going to be very happy with this news

Google will quit China unless web censorship ends
Google, the internet search engine, has set itself at odds with the authorities in China by declaring that it will stop censoring search results on its Chinese website.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/g ... -ends.html

[winston]

The Chinese dont really use Google anyway.

[iam802]

Maybe they have a hard time making money there.

The 'web censorship' is just a way to wriggle out with some 'face' intact.

It was only Sept 2009 that their China head quit.

[millionairemind]

Evidence Found for Chinese Attack on Google
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: January 19, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — An American computer security researcher has found what he says he believes is strong evidence of the digital fingerprints of Chinese authors in the software programs used in attacks against Google.

The search engine giant announced last Tuesday that it had experienced a series of Internet break-ins it believed were of Chinese origin. The company’s executives did not, however, detail the evidence leading them to the conclusion that the Chinese government was behind the attacks, beyond stating that e-mail accounts of several Chinese human rights activists had been compromised.

In the week since the announcement, several computer security companies have made claims supporting Google’s suspicions, but the evidence has remained circumstantial.

Now, by analyzing the software used in the break-ins against Google and dozens of other companies, Joe Stewart, a malware specialist with SecureWorks, a computer security company based in Atlanta, said he determined the main program used in the attack contained a module based on an unusual algorithm from a Chinese technical paper that has been published exclusively on Chinese-language Web sites.

The malware at the heart of Google attack is described by researchers as a “Trojan horse” that is intended to open a back door to a computer on the Internet. The program, called Hydraq by the computer security research community and intended to subvert computers that run different versions of the Windows operating system, was first noticed earlier this year.

Mr. Stewart describes himself as a “reverse engineer,” one of a relatively small group of software engineers who disassemble malware codes in an effort to better understand the nature of the attacks that have been introduced by the computer underground, and now possibly by governments as well.

“If you look at the code in a debugger you see patterns that jump out at you,” he said. In this case he discovered software code that represented an unusual algorithm, or formula, intended for error-checking transmitted data.

He acknowledged that he could not completely rule out the possibility that the clue had been placed in the program intentionally by programmers from another government intent on framing the Chinese, but he said that was unlikely. “Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is probably the best one.”

[kennynah]

maybe TRON 2010 will be based on this above saga...