Friday, May 4, 2012

Report: Android a Loss Leader for Google in 2010

Google's Android operating system may be one of the great success stories in tech, but the search giant apparently lost money with its mobile platform in 2010, according to Reuters.

The company's "big loss" for Android several years ago was revealed by a federal judge overseeing a jury trial between Google and Oracle over the use of Java software code to create the Linux-based software platform used in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday read portions of a sealed document containing profit and loss numbers for Android in a San Francisco courtroom. A jury is deliberating the first phase of the trial, which concerns Oracle's charge that Google violated copyright restrictions when it used Java to build Android.

Continue Reading: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403972,00.asp

Source: PCmag.com

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