On Monday, Google shares increased for over two percent to its latest record of $749.38 nearly with the Nasdaq exchange and sustained increase in after-hours trading. This year, the stock price has moved up firmly as the California-based company strengthened its positions in key Internet development areas with its superior search engine, the YouTube video venue and Android mobile operating system.
The shares got a lift a Citigroup note encouraging investors that the Google stock price could increase considerably in the upcoming 12 months. The concern was decreasing regarding the expenses of the Motorola Mobility’s acquisition, making money from their ads on tablets and Smartphones and their rivalry from Facebook, Citigroup lifted its target for Google from $740 to $850.
In after-hours trades on Monday, Google shares reached $751.09. Previous public comments by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief and co-founder were considered with improving investor concern regarding a threat to Google’s dominance in online search by Facebook, in some way in a relationship with Microsoft.
The social network’s roll on search was similarly to be answering questions with input from users’ network of friends, said by Zuckerberg throughout an onstage interview at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. An instance of this is gathering insights regarding some shops, films, restaurants and more from those whose suggestions are reliable.
The firm was decided to focus on ways to build its service available on any devices that people want to use to connect to the Internet, however, Zuckerberg was assertive that Facebook had no interest in creating its own Smartphones. Reported by an industry tracker IDC last month, almost 85 percent of the global market in the second quarter of this year was accounted to Smartphones powered by Apple and Android software.
In the firm’s quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, Kevin Restivo, the IDC senior research analyst said that due to the dominance of iOS and Android, the mobile operating system market is now absolutely a two-horse race. There is still space for some mobile OS competitors to gather share, even though that effort will become progressively harder as Smartphone feature increases.
In three months time, Google-backed Android estimated for a commanding 68.1 percent of all Smartphones sent, while Symbian and Blackberry observed their shares slip to 4.4 and 4.8 percent, it was according to IDC. Google’s Android mobile gadget OS that is free to device makers is seen as a keen way to make it natural for users to utilize the company’s money-making services and products on tablet computers and Smartphones.
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http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/google-shares-hit-record-high-271748
http://www.topix.com/forum/tech/TJOBKGOMHFOVUOQ4D
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/09/24/google-shares-hit-record-highs-citi-says-rally-aint-over/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/companies/120924/google-shares-hit-record-high-75004-share
