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Companies are always on the lookout for talented employees, but those in the work force are also judging companies — and some are more desirable than others. 

In LinkedIn's ranking that came out today, the company cross-referenced data from thousands of surveys in more than 15 billion interactions to pinpoint the 100 most sought-after companies in the world.

Here are the top 30:
1. Google
2. Apple
3. Microsoft
4. Facebook
5. Unilever
6. General Electric
7. Pepsico
8. P&G
9. McKinsey & Company
10. The Coca-Cola Company
11. The Walt Disney Company
12. Nike
13. Salesforce.com
14. Twitter
15. Shell
16. Nestle
17. BCG
18. Ogilvy & Mather
19. Expedia
20. Accenture
21. Pfizer
22. Johnson & Johnson
23. L'Oreal
24. Adidas
25. Amazon
26. Bain & Company
27. Roche
28. Diageo
29. Burberry
30. Chevron

Other interesting insights that came out of the ranking says:

Tech is hot: Software was the most represented industry on the list, and Google topped several categories including our global rankings.

A strong consumer brand helps, but isn’t essential: Consumer powerhouses like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Disney ranked highly. But so did leading professional services firms like Deloitte.

Bigger isn’t necessarily better: Big global brands are well represented, but 50 percent of the top 100 are under 7,000 employees. 

The companies that tops this list in the U.S. exist mostly in San Francisco, New York and Chicago. Source : Yahoo.com

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Google Stock Approaches $600 as Web Ad Spending Soars

By Ari Levy

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. shares may surpass $600 for the first time as investors bet the world's most popular Internet search engine will capture more sales from companies shifting advertising spending to the Web.

Google, which began trading at $85 in 2004, has the sixth- highest stock price in the U.S. and has surged 27 percent this year. The shares rose $1.84 to $584.39 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market and earlier reached $596.81.

The search engine has taken users from Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp., pushing sales growth to at least 70 percent in each of the past three years. Google plans to lure more Web surfers and advertisers through the YouTube video site, bought last year, and has introduced software to sell mobile ads.

``Google is still dominating,'' Piper Jaffray & Co. Web analysts including Gene Munster said in an Oct. 1 report.

Munster, in Minneapolis, rates the stock ``outperform'' and estimates it will reach $660 within a year as Google parlays its lead in search into other areas of online advertising next year.

The Web advertising market in the U.S. will grow 29 percent this year to $21.7 billion and then more than double by 2011, according to EMarketer Inc. Ads linked to search results will account for about 40 percent of that, the New York-based researcher estimates.

The company bolstered its search engine in May by adding links to YouTube videos, images, book excerpts and news. Microsoft and Yahoo have followed in the past week with their own upgrades. Google also is counting on its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc., its largest, to gain sales in the display ad market. The deal still requires regulatory approval.

Google's Gains

Google's share of the Internet search market increased to 56.5 percent in August from 55.2 percent the previous month, according to Reston, Virginia-based researcher ComScore Inc. Yahoo fell to 23.3 percent and Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft dropped to 11.3 percent from 12.3 percent.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had the two highest priced stocks in the U.S., with the Class A shares trading at $119,799. The others above $600 are Seaboard Corp., a pork processor and cargo shipper, CME Group Inc., operator of the world's biggest futures market, and Washington Post Co.

In its 2004 IPO, the biggest ever for an Internet company, Google dodged U.S. investment banks and sold shares directly to investors. The so-called Dutch auction allowed smaller firms to bid for shares, giving the bigger ones less control over the sale.

Sharing the Wealth

Google's advance has made billionaires out of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who started the company as Stanford University graduate students in 1998. Page, 34, and Brin, 34, each have shares valued at more than $18 billion. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt owns over $5 billion in stock.

The company has a stock market value of more than $180 billion, the third largest among U.S. technology companies, behind software maker Microsoft and Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of computer networking equipment.

While 33 of 36 analysts tracked by Bloomberg recommend buying the shares, the price forecasts suggest more skepticism. Of the 28 analysts with estimates, 20 have predictions below $625 for the next 12 months.

To contact the reporter on this story: Ari Levy in San Francisco at alevy5@bloomberg.net

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Google responds to Viacom's $1bn 'infringement' lawsuit

Reacting to Viacom Inc.'s copyright infringement lawsuit over Google's hugely popular video-sharing site YouTube, the online search leader has filed a confrontational official response in New York’s federal district court, contending that YouTube’s activities are legal.

In its response to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Google said that it has not infringed on the rights of the media company and denied virtually all the claims Viacom made in its lawsuit against Google.

In March, the New York-based entertainment giant Viacom Media filed a suit with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging Google's San Bruno-based video-sharing site YouTube knowingly infringed Viacom copyrights "on a huge scale."

In its lawsuit, the American media conglomerate claimed unauthorized display of over 160,000 video clips picked collectively from MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon by YouTube. Besides claiming "massive intentional copyright infringement" of its properties Viacom demanded for an injunction preventing Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. Viacom also seeks more than US $1 billion in damages and an injunction against further violations against YouTube and its parent company Google Inc.

In an 11-page response to Viacom, Google said that Viacom’s claims were unfounded and asked for a judgment dismissing the complaint. Google also demanded a jury trial in its yesterday’s filing.

The Internet search giant also said that YouTube respects the importance of copyrights and goes above and beyond what is required under the 1998 law, known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which gives Web hosts protection from copyright lawsuits so long as they comply with requests to remove unauthorized material.

"By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications, Viacom's complaint threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression," Google said in its official response, further arguing that Viacom's suit "challenges the careful balance established by Congress when it enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

YouTube, which Mountain View-based online search leader Google acquired for $1.65 billion last year, says it cooperates with holders of copyrights and rapidly complies with requests to have unauthorized material removed from the site. The online video service YouTube in February had agreed to remove 100,000 video clips from its hugely popular video-sharing site after Viacom’s claim that they had been placed on the site without its approval.

In a briefing with reporters at Google's headquarters, Michael Kwun, Google's managing counsel for litigation said, "We think YouTube offers the world's leading platform for entertainment, education and free speech." Kwun said the companies are not engaged in settlement talks and added "We're not going to let this lawsuit distract us."

Meanwhile, Viacom denied yesterday that YouTube qualifies for protection under the DMCA, arguing that the company has prior knowledge of infringing material and is also profiting from pirated works. On Google’s response, Viacom said, “This response ignores the most important fact of the suit,” arguing that the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA do not apply to Google because copyrighted material is associated with YouTube's business platform.

Philip Beck, a top trial lawyer from the Chicago firm Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott who represented George Bush in the fight over the 2000 presidential election, will represent Google in the case. Philip Beck also defended Merck in the Vioxx drug case.

David Kramer, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a famed Silicon Valley litigator, is also joining Beck in the case.

Founded in February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal, YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. It uses the Adobe Flash technology to display video, and currently is handling a monthly traffic of over 70 million users.

by Shubha Krishnappa - May 1, 2007 - 0 comments

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