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Friday, February 11, 2011
Can Google ever be a neutral news provider According to the internet media,its all about the latest news and updates,internet media provided real hot topic information,that news latest updates is,It is hard to think of many American business executives who have been detained for dissent against repressive regimes. It is more usual for them to be actively engaged in reinforcing dodgy dictatorships than tearing them down. But the brief imprisonment of Google head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, Wael Ghonim has heightened the sense that the search company is an active player in the democracy movement.
It is unclear what the view of Ghonim's activities are from the Googleplex.
Ghonim's 12-day detention in Egypt and his subsequent release have not been obviously marked or celebrated on the Google site, nor has its logo been decorated in his honour, as it is for events such as St Patrick's Day. Ghonim was not simply detained for working for Google. His arrest was more likely to be linked to his activism in the region. However Ghonim's activism is likely to have met with approval from Google's new chief executive and co-founder Larry Page.
Ghonim's detention was the second time Google had hit the headlines in relation to Egypt. The first time was the company's development of a censor-busting "workaround" in the form of a speak-to-Tweet service SayNow, aimed at Egyptians cut off from the internet .
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Friday, January 28, 2011
The stock hit a trough of $46.18 and was down 9.9 percent at $46.24 in afternoon trading after the company reported a fourth-quarter adjusted gross margin of 43.7 percent, compared with Wall Street's estimate of 45.2 percent.
The shares of the maker of flash memory rose 70 percent over the past year as the company and its rivals benefited from relatively stable prices for flash memory, which is used in tablets and smartphones.
But the average price per gigabyte sold in the fourth quarter fell 15 percent from the previous quarter. New production capacity is expected to open up in 2011, pressuring prices further.
"This will be a good year, but it's not going to match last year," said Gleacher & Company analyst Doug Freedman. "You're going to have a declining gross margin curve throughout the year."
NAND flash is a commodity and SanDisk's fortunes are in large part determined by the supply-demand balance in the global market and its impact on pricing.
The slide in share price on Friday came despite Sandisk forecasting revenue above Wall Street's expectations for the current quarter and for 2011.
SanDisk, which has a reputation for issuing conservative forecasts, expects revenue of $1.2 billion to $1.275 billion for the current quarter, compared with Wall Street's estimate of $1.16 billion.
