By Telecom Lead Team:
Google spent $951 million towards capital expenditure in Q4 2011. The majority
of capital expenditure was related to IT infrastructure investments, including
data centers, servers, and networking equipment.
Google expects to continue to make significant capital
expenditures.
Google employed 32,467 full-time employees as of December
31, 2011, up from 31,353 full-time employees as of September 30, 2011.
Google reported revenues of $10.58 billion for the
quarter ended December 31, 2011, an increase of 25 percent compared to the
fourth quarter of 2010.
Net income in Q4 2011 was $2.71 billion, compared to
$2.54 billion in Q4 2010.
Google’s full year revenue was up 29 percent, and its
quarterly revenue blew past the $10 billion mark for the first time.
I am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail,
and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally well over double what I
announced just three months ago. By building a meaningful relationship with our
users through Google+ we will create amazing experiences across our services.
I’m very excited about what we can do in 2012. There are tremendous
opportunities to help users and grow our business,” said Larry Page, CEO of
Google.
Google-owned sites generated revenues of $7.29 billion,
or 69 percent of total revenues, in Q4 2011. This represents a 29 percent
increase over Q4 2010 revenues of $5.67 billion.
Google’s partner sites generated revenues of $2.88
billion, or 27 percent of total revenues, in Q4 2011. This represents a 15
percent increase from Q4 2010 network revenues of $2.50 billion.
Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $5.60
billion, representing 53 percent of total revenues in Q4 2011, compared to 55
percent in Q3 2011 and 52 percent in Q4 2010.
Revenues from the United Kingdom totaled $1.06 billion,
representing 10 percent of revenues in Q4 2011, compared to 10 percent in Q4
2010.
