{"id":336,"date":"2013-01-24T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:21:02","slug":"google-exec-says-fiber-not-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/story\/google-exec-says-fiber-not-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Google exec says Fiber ‘not a hobby’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Google Fiber, the super broadband contribution that has made the moniker “Silicon Prairie” for Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas), is “not a hobby,” Patrick Pichette, the organization’s senior VP and CFO, said during a final quarter income call yesterday evening.<\/p>\n
“We truly feel that we ought to make great business with this chance and we’re going to keep on taking a gander at the chance of extending,” Pichette said during the inquiry and answer bit of the call with investigators. “In any case, since we are in the good old days, we just got the chance to nail Kansas City. It’s an ideal spot for us to sort of troubleshooting the entirety of the components of the item and the experience for the clients.”<\/p>\n
Pichette’s remarks came during a call where Google executives promoted final quarter incomes of $14.42 billion, up 36 percent over a similar quarter in 2011 and up 8 percent quarter-over-quarter.<\/p>\n
The organization likewise “hit $50 billion in [annual] income just because a year ago,” included CEO Larry Page, taking note of this was “not a terrible accomplishment in only 10 years and-a-half.”<\/p>\n