googlers

Google employees in different cities around the world have been doing their best to prove that Google is not evil. Well, I haven't seen this cited as an official reason, and I like to think that they're doing it because they care, but different branches of Google are helping children in a variety of capacities this holiday season.

Google's top executives have been selling their holdings non-stop for almost three and a half years, a trend that ultimately gained some attention from the market.

InfoWorld has an article about a study by a consulting firm that says Google Apps isn’t the right move for any sort of decent sized mature business, that it better fits smaller businesses with very limited needs. Bad enough to have in the press, no doubt, but then there’s this:

The financials for Google's second quarter of 2007 proved uninspiring for Wall Street as earnings missed expectations, and Google blamed a higher headcount for rising expenses.

The US Presidential race has candidates chasing dollars like hounds after a fox, and one of their favorite destinations in rich Silicon Valley has been Google.

Google has argued that everything’s just fine, yet the company seems to be losing employees like never before - a few important people, including Vanessa Fox, have certainly made other arrangements.  Several well-informed onlookers also seem to support the “greener pastures” theory.

This August, it will be three years since Google’s initial public offering (and since I started this blog as a way to track the company). When that happens, according to NBC News, nearly 3 billion dollars in pre-IPO options will vest, with over 450 early Googlers earning an average of $6.5 million.

There are probably no more than 500 words on the entire site, but the first sentence of ooyala’s “About Us” section sure gets one point across: “The company was started by former Google engineers and product managers.”  That was originally written in bold, by the way.