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On November 30, 2009, Larry Page and Sergey Brin each adopted stock trading plans in accordance with guidelines specified under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and Google’s policies regarding stock transactions. In the future, they will begin selling a portion of their Google stock pursuant to these stock trading plans.

Larry is a Co-Founder of Google and serves as Google’s President, Products and Sergey is also a Co-Founder of Google and serves as its President, Technology.

These pre-arranged stock trading plans were adopted in order to allow Larry and Sergey to sell a portion of their Google stock over time as part of their respective long-term strategies for individual asset diversification and liquidity. The transactions under these plans will be disclosed publicly through Form 4 and Form 144 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Using these plans, they can gradually diversify their investment portfolios and can spread stock trades out over an extended period of time to reduce market impact. Because these plans were established well in advance of a trade, they also help avoid concerns about whether these officers had material, non-public information when they made a decision to sell their stock.

Larry and Sergey currently hold approximately 57.7 million shares of Class B common stock, which represents approximately 18% of Google’s outstanding capital stock and approximately 59% of the voting power of Google’s outstanding capital stock. Under the terms of these Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, and as a part of a five year diversification plan, Larry and Sergey each intend to sell approximately 5 million shares. If Larry and Sergey complete all the planned sales under these Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, they would continue to collectively own approximately 47.7 million shares, which would represent approximately 15% of Google’s outstanding capital stock and approximately 48% of the voting power of Google’s outstanding capital stock (assuming no other sales and conversions of Google capital stock occur).

Based on todays value of Google share which is $550.01 per share , it will cost them about 5.5 Billion dollars having each of them 2.75 Billion dollars. They are only 37 and they are both billionaire. Assuming that the cost per share will still remain at $550, they will still have a remaining 26 Billion Dollars or 47.7 Million Shares of stock.

November 2009
Today we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for $750 million. We are extremely excited about this new partnership and what it means for our publishers.

AdMob’s people, products and tools will continue to work to effectively monetize your mobile traffic – no interruptions. Our product and engineering teams will keep building great products for our customers. Our sales team will keep working with our thousands of advertisers to deliver successful campaigns.

After our deal closes, AdMob will work with Google to accelerate the pace of innovation in mobile and do an even better job for you. We believe this deal will benefit our developer and publisher partners by:

*Building even more powerful technology and tools to monetize mobile traffic.

*Increasing the effectiveness of display advertising on mobile devices by leveraging Google sales team, infrastructure and relationships.

*Improving the already high level of service and support we deliver to our publishers.

You can read more about this deal at www.admob.com/google.

Omar

I believe that Google had made a very good decision to  take Admob and to be a leader both in PC and in Mobile, I wonder if there will be an option to inter links earnings from Admob to Google Adsense. You can see some of my post about admob thru the links provided.

Facebook recorded a 5 hour 46 minutes spent compared to Google which is 1 hr 53 minutes which is about 3 times larger. This only means that more and more people are being hooked up in different flash games that facebook is offering like Restaurant City, Farm Ville , Farm Town , Mafia Wars etc. where users tends to comeback because of their obligation in their farm and/or the game.
So is it having threat to Google ? Google seems to have forgotten the value of social networking. They forgot that Social Networking would also be a great source of Advertising. No wonder why lots of Netrepreneur is on Facebook.

If there is a Search Engine Optimization , are we going to here about Social Media Optimization ( SMO ) in the near future. Well this is not impossible since more and more people is being engage in Social Networking.
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I might be late with this one since it goes out in the market about a week ago but anyway it is better late than never

So is this the start of Microsoft Competition when it comes to Operating System ( OS ) , It has been announced that Google is coming out with a new operating system: Google Chrome OS. : a Linux-based operating system designed specifically for getting to the Web and Web apps faster. This is great news for us consumers because of the competition. But the problem is will it be compatible with most of the program that we are using. More consideration needs to be studied by Google.

After Google Chrome Browser now they are focused in Google Chrome OS. They are truly expanding.

The Google Squared homepage, complete with a Labs icon, offers a search box and a “Square it” button. Suggested searches include “roller coasters”, “strollers”, and “hotels in Paris”.

The search result page for the query “small dogs”. According to Google, Chihuahuas weigh 6 lb and belong to the group “toy”.

detail of above screenshot showing different types of small dogs

Google Squared, a Labs project set to debut later this month. It is a Search Options where You can drill down your search results, but Squared lets you add or delete results to produce the most useful “square” of information that you can save to your Google account and refer back to later according to some reviews.

Well I do not really know the importance of this new Search Product called Google Square but I hope it could help us get more specific result in Google.

There is another one called Google Search Options I think this is more interesting and I am still researching about the use of the new Search products that will be launch by Google.

Have you heard about Google Sync for your Mobile Phone ? Google Sync will let you synchronize your contacts and calendar on your phone with your Google account. Although It will still depends on your phone. In Addition you can even get your saved Google calendar events to your phone .

Here are the features as shown in Google Sync Page

Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your phone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it.

Get calendar alerts. Using your phone’s native calendar, you can now access your Google calendar, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.

Always in sync. Your contacts stay synchronized whether you access them from your phone or from your computer. Add or edit contact information right on your device or on your Google account on the web.

It currently supports iPhone, BlackBerry , Nokia S60, Nokia standard, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile

As of today it only works with only 20 countries and sad to say not including Saudi Arabia. I don’t know if it works in Philippines.

As for me I am getting my Email from G-mail thru my Nokia E71 via POP. Now adays more and more application is being built which is suitable for mobile devices, Now my question is your site Mobile Ready ? Well Tech At Hand Dot Net is Mobile Ready .

I have seen some error in the Google Search Results. Is this only in Saudi Arabia or this is Global. Did somebody hack Google and have this error or it is some problem with Google itself. We will see soon on what is Google Explanation with this.

So I don’t know when will Google remove the “ This site may harm you computer “ sign in every results. Did you experience the same ?

Google should fix this soon. Or else they are in trouble.

Updates 1: I have seen in twitter that this is global.

Updates 2: After 15-20 Minutes Google is fixed.. Whoah that only show how fast you are in resolving issues. but what happen ?

UPDATE 3: Be careful …. Maybe Google just removed the filtering of bad sites. Sites that were on StopBadware.org block list are now not being flagged as potentially dangerous. This is a possibility.. So be very careful

Update 4 : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html