Google Deal's Details Show Flaws: It's Tough to Assess the $260 Million, 30-Year Agreement
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By Jonathan B. Cox,Economic incentives are again in the spotlight after Google was promised as much as $260 million in tax breaks and other perks to create 210 jobs.
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There is growing speculation that Google is finding it harder than expected to muscle its way into the radio business.
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google for more details about its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick as part of an investigation into whether the deal raises antitrust concerns, a Google executive said yesterday.
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SAN JOSE, California - On the cusp of its voyage into public trading, Google's initial stock price was set at $85 and its market value calculated at $23 billion - less than originally expected, but still impressive for a 6-year-old dot-com dreamed up in a garage.    The final initial public offering price, set through an unorthodox auction that alienated many on Wall Street, means the stock will likely debut Thursday under the symbol "GOOG" on the Nasdaq Stock Market...
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One week ago, I submitted a bid for Google Inc. stock that overestimated the eventual auction price of the computer search company&#39;s initial public offering by nearly 30 percent. But I sold my shares shortly ...
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On the cusp of its voyage into public trading, Google&#39;s initial stock price was set at $85 and its market value calculated at $23 billion - less than originally expected, but still impressive for a 6-year-old dot-com dreamed up in a garage.
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Possible deal revives debate over whether tech firm will reinvent itself or become a target.
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InfoWorld - Google&#39;s claims that&#160;Microsoft&#39;s built-in Vista desktop indexing and search tool violates its antitrust agreement&#160;could be difficult to prove even if the software does slow down the performance of Google&#39;s competitive Google Desktop offering.
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David C. Drummond, Google Inc.'s top attorney, agreed yesterday to pay nearly $700,000 to settle allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that, in his former job at a New Hampshire technology training firm , he failed to keep proper accounting controls in place, officials said yesterday.
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Google Inc.'s plans to move ahead with its initial public stock offering ran into a roadblock when the Securities and Exchange Commission didn't approve the Internet search giant's regulatory paperwork as requested.
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For Google, buying a piece of Facebook would have been, well, nice. But for Microsoft, sealing the deal was an absolute necessity.
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Reuters reminds us that Google still has the small issue of 23.4 million shares that were not correctly registered with the SEC. &quot;Google said it expects little acceptance of the buyback offer, which has a weighted average offer price of $3.94 per share.
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Google has made its first official comments on&#160;Microsoft&#39;s proposed acquisition of Yahoo&#160;saying that the deal raises &quot;troubling questions&quot; and that the underlying principles of the Internet stand to be tested by the proposed deal.The statement refers several times to Microsoft&#39;s past regulatory transgressions and indicates that Google could be preparing to fight the deal -- if it is accepted by Yahoo -- by pushing regulators to disallow it.&quot;Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?,&quot; asked David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google in a statement posted on the corporate blog on Sunday.Drummond also asks if an acquisition could allow Microsoft to &quot;extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?&quot; and to &quot; take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors&#39; email, IM, and web-based services?&quot;A report late Sunday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal said Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Friday to offer help to the rival in thwarting the bid. The newspaper, which quoted people familiar with the matter, didn&#39;t provide details of the telephone call.Google has something to fear from a combined Microsoft and Yahoo. The proposed deal, which was announced on Friday and has Microsoft offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo, would combine the number two and three search engines. The two companies are also leaders in the areas of Web mail and instant messaging so a merger would provide stronger competition for Google in those areas.But Google has a massive lead in search and the deal wouldn&#39;t necessarily lead to an improvement in search results, so Microsoft and Yahoo would still face a challenge to surpass Google&#39;s current dominance in this part of the market.The Google statement got a quick response from Microsoft, which said a combination of the two companies would benefit Internet users by establishing a stronger number two competitor to Google.&quot;The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet,&quot; said Microsoft&#39;s top-lawyer, General Counsel Brad Smith, in a statement.&quot;Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet. We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will advance these goals,&quot; Smith said.A merged company would still only account for about 30 percent of the search queries run in the U.S. and about 10 percent in Europe, he said.
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By Alan MacDermid  WHAT, only a billion dollars? What have they been doing for the past three months? It's not the reaction you normally expect to good news, but Google, the search engine that threatens to eat cyberspace, has just had a hard lesson in avarice from its shareholders.
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a $21 million, three-year contract, but there may be a hitch in the deal. New. hasn&#39;t determined whether he passed it or failed it.
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The FTC is taking a closer look at Google's latest catch.
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Google Inc. on Wednesday said it priced its long-awaited initial public offering at &#36;85 per share, far below initial expectations, ending a tumultuous process beset by poor market conditions and a series of missteps.