This afternoon, we gave a keynote address at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s MIXX Conference in New York, entitled “Display 2015: Smart and Sexy.” As you know by now, we’re investing significantly to make display advertising better for users, advertisers and publishers. Display advertising really is at the heart of what we’re doing at Google these days
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eBay Q2 Revenue Hits $2.2 Billion, PayPal Adding One Million New Accounts Each Month
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Ebay beat the Street’s expectations for Q2 earnings, reporting profits of 40 cents a share (or $530.2 million) on revenues of $2.2 billion. Analysts expected 30 cents a share with revenue at $2.1 billion, Net income increased by 18 percent (excluding Skype) from the same quarter in 2009, and revenue rose by 6 percent from last year
The following essay is also my AdAge column this week. Wither the web? It’s hard to believe but soon, if not already, the web is going to become a lot less interesting to consumers — and just as it approaches its 20th birthday. According to Morgan Stanley, within five years global internet consumption on mobile devices will surpass the same activity on PCs. This sounds like good news. It’s natural to think that browsers on the third screen (phones) and the fourth screen (tablets) will simply replace time spent in front of the same on a PC.






