Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, which posted a 29 percent increase in quarterly profit but issued a forecast below Wall Street expectations for the current quarter. (Armando Arorizo/Bloomberg News) SAN FRANCISCO: Like two...

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Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) released a respectable earnings report on Thursday, considered in absolute terms. However, the market had been expecting the search engine giant to deliver a stronger performance and promptly punished its stock for...
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- In the clearest sign yet that online ad sales growth cannot outrun a global economic slowdown, Google reported the first-ever sequential quarterly revenue decline in its U.K. business. The dip, as reported in the...
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Google reported revenues of $5.4 billion for 2008's second quarter, which after payments to Web publishers which carry Google-sold ads, comes to $3.9 billion, just $30 million ahead of Wall Street's expectations. Second-quarter revenues grew 39...