It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies

Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by tomc1985 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:54PM (#16386496)

Hardly a fair comparison, considering Google's extensive non-advertising product offerings

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by friday99 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#16386611)

Those "other revenues" only account for about 13% of Google's revenue. So its a fair comparison. Google is almost 90% an advertising company.

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_releas...

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by tomc1985 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:46PM (#16386918)

Yes because all those apps exist... to funnel people towards Google's extensive advertising network, so the money shows up as adbiz revenue instead of with products.

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by freeone3000 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:56PM (#16387560)

So, by pursuing other technological innovations, they are able to expand their advertising business?

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by tikhonj on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#16386607)

Extensive non-advertising product offerings that somehow don't translate into extensive non-advertising revenue...

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by guyzero on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:05PM (#16387106)

"if you believe that these are all just advertising companies."

I'm not the one calling Google an all-advertising company, I'm just saying that if it is, it's by far the biggest.

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