When I got a brief word with CEO Eric Schmidt just now, he pretty much brushed off this discrepancy as a failure by Wall Street analysts to take account of Google’s lower cash balances. “As best we can tell,” he said, “they [analysts] didn’t back out the cash we paid for DoubleClick.” With less money in the bank, interest income dropped by around $80m, accounting for the earnings “disappointment”
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