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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin whilst both attended Stanford University. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on Septemb... More

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Awards presented:

Google O'Reilly Open Source Award

Date founded:

Sep 4, 1998

Also known as:

Google, Inc.,
GOOG,
Google Inc,
Google Inc.

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Person	Title	To
Salar Kamangar	Vice President of Product Management
David lawee	Vice President of Marketing
Marissa Mayer	Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
Mario Queiroz	Vice President, Product Management, EMEA & Latin America
Lorraine Twohill	Vice President, Marketing, EMEA
Susan Wojcicki	Vice President of Product Management
Daniel Alegre	Vice President, Latin America and APLA Business Development
Tim Armstrong	President, Advertising and Commerce, North America, & Vice President, Google Inc.	Mar 2009
Nikesh Arora	Senior Vice President
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy	Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations

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Number of employees:

number	date
10,000	2006
12,238	Mar 31, 2007
13,748	Jun 30, 2007
24,400	Jan 8, 2009

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Revenue:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2.17956E+10	Dec 31, 2008
US$	2.9321E+10	Dec 31, 2010
US$	1.06049E+10	Dec 31, 2006
US$	3.7905E+10	Dec 31, 2011
US$	2.3651E+10	Dec 31, 2009

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Operating Income:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	4,121,900,000	Dec 31, 2006
US$	1.1742E+10	Dec 31, 2011

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Net profit:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	4,226,860,000	Dec 31, 2008
US$	9,737,000,000	Dec 31, 2011

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Cash:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	8,656,670,000	Dec 31, 2008

Current Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2.01782E+10	Dec 31, 2008
US$	5.2758E+10	Dec 31, 2011

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Total Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	3.17676E+10	Dec 31, 2008
US$	7.2574E+10	Dec 31, 2011

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Current Liabilities:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2,302,090,000	Dec 31, 2008
US$	8,913,000,000	Dec 31, 2011

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Total Liabilities:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	3,528,710,000	Dec 31, 2008

Retained Earnings:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	1.35616E+10	Dec 31, 2008

Competitive space:

Online advertising

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Products:

Consumer product	From date	To date
Google Wave
Google Chrome
Google Buzz	Feb 2010
Google Earth
Google Maps
Nexus One	2010	2010
Nexus S	2010

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Internet

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Awards

Appears in ranked lists:

List	Rank	Year
Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For	4	2009
Fortune 1000	117	2009
Fortune 1000	150	2008
Fortune 1000	353	2006
Fortune Global 500	423	2009

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Organization

Address

Google Headquarters

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View California 94043

United States of America

Organizations founded:

Open Handset Alliance

Member of:

Organization	From
Open Handset Alliance	Nov 5, 2007
Interactive Advertising Bureau
Network Advertising Initiative

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Geographic scope:

World

Founders:

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Board members:

Person	Title	From
Larry Page	CEO
Eric E. Schmidt	Chairman	Mar 2001
John Doerr
John L. Hennessy		2004
Ann Mather
Paul S. Otellini
K. Ram Shriram
Shirley M. Tilghman
Sergey Brin	Founder

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Slogan:

Don't be evil

Previous names:

Backrub

Organizations acquired:

Organization acquired	Date
YouTube	Nov 2006
FeedBurner	Jun 3, 2007
Postini	2007
GrandCentral	Jul 2007
DoubleClick	Mar 11, 2008
JotSpot	Oct 31, 2006
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.	Jul 16, 2010
AdMob	Nov 2009
ITA Software	Jul 2010
Keyhole, Inc	2004

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Leadership:

Person	Role	Title	From
Larry Page	Chief Executive Officer		Apr 4, 2011
Eric E. Schmidt	Executive Chairman
Sergey Brin	Co-Founder
David C. Drummond	Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
Patrick Pichette	Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Nikesh Arora	Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer

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Projects:

Michigan digitization project

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Patents assigned:

US7960945

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Google Scholar

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Google Watch

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