Google Earnings

[dallas]

DirtyP2002 said:

dallas said:

Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to.  And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens.

 10% of MS revenue is still more than 14% of Googles revenue.

 

It doesn't matter.  Actually now that the results are out, MSFT researched about 14% of its revenue while google put 13% towards its R&D, however, Google spent waaaayyyyyy  more on acquisitions which carry  a large amount of patents in themselves.  They spent 1.3 billion on acquisitions this year, and last year bought Motorola which also has a huge number of patents.  

 

So its obvious that Google is quickly catching up with respect to its intellectual property, an area that many have contended that google has a weakness in.