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GOOG Up With Markets Stocks are up in early trading on China's rate cut and Bernanke's monetary policy speech to the Senate . Shares of GOOG are up with the rest of tech. Investors continuelook for Android momentum on smartphones and tablets and monetization andintegration of Motorola ; regaining ground in China; the resurgence of Google TV ; continued growth of YouTube ; expansion of social network Google+; and progress in otherinitiatives (location-based services, mapping, Google Wallet , Google Music , etc.). The stock trades at approximately 10.4x Enterprise Value / EBIT . Google Is Waging War On Microsoft With Acquisition Of Quickoffice (ZDNet) Google's acquisition of Quickoffice may give the company a neededcompetitive hedge against Office 15 on Windows tablets and possiblyiOS and Android devices.
Google Docs has made some inroads againstMicrosoft Office, but not nearly enough. That"s no doubt abig reason for the acquisition. Now the question becomes will thecross-mobile-platform productivity suite Quickoffice give Google abetter leg up against Microsoft"s Office? Quickoffice runs oniPhones, iPad, Android, Android tablets and Symbian devices. So,there's that. EXCLUSIVE: Google's First Android Tablet Expected This Month (Business Insider) Google is expected to announce its first Android tablet at the endof the month, according to a source with knowledge of the company'splans.
The new tablet will also offer magazine subscriptions fromsome major magazine publishers, our source says. It'll likely be asimilar model Apple and Amazon use for magazine subscriptions onthe iPad and Kindle Fire. Google recently opened up in-appsubscriptions for Android apps. While our source couldn't confirmthis is the long-rumored 7-inch "Nexus" tablet from Asus, we'reguessing that's the case.
Android's Smartphone Market Share Likely to Peak This Year (IDC via PC World) Android will still be the king of smartphone operating systems infour years, but its market share will erode as Windows Phone takesoff, according to IDC. By the end of 2012, Android's smartphonemarket share will be 61%, but by 2016 its share will have droppedto 52.9%. Also, the continued success of Android will increasinglydepend on Samsung. Despite a slow start, Microsoft's Windows Phonewill be the second most popular smartphone OS by 2016.
Android is losing the platform war . Since Facebook's IPO Disaster, Twitter Now Cheaper For Google ToBuy (Business Insider) Thanks to the fallout from the Facebook IPO, it's starting to feel like Google might finally acquire Twitter in the next many months. First there was our report from last week how Google's M&A team seriously regrets not buying Twitter "when itcould." For the same report, a source close to Twitter told us: "It still can." So, there's interest on both sides. That's 99% of the battle. Thelast 1% is price.
Well, thanks to Facebook, Twitter is gettingcheaper as the stock price craters in the private markets. Google Unveils New Mapping Features As Apple Turns Against It (Various via Scoople) Terrified of new competition from former ally Apple , Google unveiled plans to offer 3D maps of major cities and othernew features for the Google Maps and Google Earth services.Specifically, the company is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes aboveseveral cities to create a photo-based map of the world.Additionally, offline maps are coming to Android. For more details, check out the Business Insider live blog from the event . Just a warning, it was a boring presentation. More Reports That Google+ Is Hardly A Ghost Town (Inc.) According to tech pundit Robert Scoble, you should really be onGoogle+.
If you're one of the many who's thought the exactopposite, here's why you shouldn't discount the Google+ community.Google+ and Facebook, at least at this point, aren't drawing thesame kinds of users. On Google+ you'll likely connect withstrangers, many of whom are tech-savvy men. Additionally, HangoutsOn Air, is a great way to engage because it lets you broadcast. Google Agrees To Acquire Meebo (Various via Scoople) Do you think acquisitions will help Google grow Google+ morequickly ? Google announced that it has purchased Meebo, the social mediaand advertising company, to add a team of engineers and somepublisher-friendly social tools to its Google+ efforts. The companyhas been around since 2005 and first began as a messaging programthat allowed users on different instant messaging clients to sendeach other cross-platform chats.
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