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POPSIs Google the New Yahoo!? Google is a monster when it comes to syndicating its ads on third-party sites. AdSense revenue, which accounts for more than a third of the company's total revenue with its presence on sites like News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace, CNET (Nasdaq: CNET), or Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL and CNN.com, climbed 37% higher this past quarter at Google. That compares to a 13% year-over-year dip in affiliate revenue at Yahoo! during the same period. Google has also been growing beyond the clickthrough, whether it's through impression-based display advertising or expanding its action-based affiliate program spots. There is also the monetization of the fast-growing YouTube. Is revenue growth going to decelerate this quarter? Definitely. Is it going to slam on the brakes and go in reverse? This isn't Crazy Taxi! The comScore data pegged Google's click growth at just 25% this past quarter, but Google's top line actually soared 51%.
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POPSA million dollars to go! well, not that easy, not that true. It is effective in bull market...and that's not every year... So beware of easy forecsting like that. It's quite easy to extrapolate...but then reality comes, and sometimes it hurts!! Just ask all the companies that had subrpimes mortgages investment this year! ;)
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POPSHow Google Works
And Google's market share is growing; a year ago, it was 36.5%. The same survey indicates that Americans conducted 6.6 billion searches online in April, up 4% from the previous month. Google sites led the pack with 2.9 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo sites (1.9 billion) and MSN-Microsoft (858 million). This growth is driven by scalable technology. As Google noted in its most recent annual report filing with the SEC: "Our business relies on our software and hardware infrastructure, which provides substantial computing resources at low cost. We currently use a combination of off-the-shelf and custom software running on clusters of commodity computers. Our considerable investment in developing this infrastructure has produced several key benefits.It simplifies the storage and processing of large amounts of data, eases the deployment and operation of large-scale global products and services, and automates much of the administration of large-scale clusters of computer
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POPSBye, Bye Business School, Bye Bye MBA! Mr. Hammond of Alerian noticed the same trend while he was an analyst at Goldman Sachs. His co-workers who went to business school either wanted to change careers, or they were not doing well in their current jobs, he says. If he were looking at someone who went to Harvard Business School after the two-year analyst program at Goldman, “I’d be suspicious,” he says. “I’d be saying, ‘What was it you were doing wrong that you couldn’t get a promotion at Goldman or did not pursue an opportunity with a private equity or hedge fund?’ ” Mr. Hammond of the Alerian hedge fund recently hired someone from Carnegie Mellon’s business school because of that person’s engineering talent, not the skills he learned in business school. While Mr. Hammond says he understands why his new employee went to business school to move into finance, he would look less favorably on someone in an M.B.A. program who had left finance to go to business school.
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POPSECB and Fed intervene in money markets The European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve intervened in the money markets again on Thursday, with the ECB injecting €42.2bn and the Fed adding a total of $31.25bn into temporary reserves, more than market participants had expected.
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POPSLes hedge funds victimes d'un effet domino | LE TEMPS.CH | 14.08.07 Mais aucune des étoiles de la finance quantitative, de Renaissance Technologies, en passant par AQR et Highbridge, n'est sortie indemne d'une conjonction "d'événements sans précédent pour cette catégorie", souligne Alexandre Rampa, gestionnaire de portefeuille chez 3A, filiale de Syz. "C'était aussi probable qu'une météorite tombant sur Genève. C'est une très grande déception. Ces fonds, neutres par marché et par secteur, n'auraient pas dû souffrir ainsi. L'impression de sécurité qu'ils offraient était erronée", déplore un professionnel de Zurich. De telles circonstances "créent des opportunités. Encore faut-il avoir les ressources pour en profiter", souligne Alexandre Rampa. Des ressources, Goldman Sachs n'en manque pas. En renflouant lundi le GEO, la banque, qui s'est défendue de monter un "sauvetage", veut restaurer sa réputation écornée dans l'alternatif. Par la même occasion, elle s'est mise en position de profiter des aubaines que la débandade de la semaine passée a fait naîtr
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