No Immediate Lift For Google Revenue From Speedy Flight Searches

Bret Jensen submits:Google (GOOG) reported earnings after the bell on Thursday. The company disappointed Wall Street with numbers of $6.45 a share versus the $6.51 consensus estimates. The main cause of the earnings miss was that Google had the audacity to add almost 1200 highly skill professionals to its workforce.

Trefis submits: LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), which gets about half of its stock value from its recruitment services and job postings business, also derives about 28% of its value from advertisements and marketing. Revenue per 1,000 page views (RPM), a parameter used to measure ad pricing, is an important metric for the online ad market.

Traveling on a plane can sometimes feel like being trapped in a germ incubator. This year, that is especially true. In America the flu season is so bad that many travellers are delaying their trips or are taking precautions — such as avoiding the hotel gym or waiting for an empty lift.

PARIS — Google’s new privacy policy is under attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who on Tuesday brought legal action to try and force the company to overhaul practices they say let it create a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users. Led by the French, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed Tuesday on the joint action, with the ultimate possibility of imposing fines or restrictions on operations across the entire 27-country European Union.

PARIS — Google’s new privacy policy is under attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who on Tuesday brought legal action to try and force the company to overhaul practices they say let it create a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users. Led by the French, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed Tuesday on the joint action, with the ultimate possibility of imposing fines or restrictions on operations across the entire 27-country European Union.

By LetsPartyLikeIts2002: Latin America includes 19 countries beginning with Mexico and continuing south all the way to Tierra del Fuego, which is divided by Chile and Argentina. The total population as of December 31, 2011 was roughly 579 million with the top five largest cities being Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Lima. Key Statistics for Latin America

On 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel. The Jet A-1 biofuel kerosene used in the flight was derived from the seeds of tung trees, more commonly known as japtropha.

Trefis submits: Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which makes money through contextual search advertising, has seen its ad revenue per 1,000 searches (RPS) fluctuate in recent years. Our estimates have indicated that Yahoo’s RPS grew until 2008 and has since declined due to the weak ad market.