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This article was published on 22 January 2016 at 17:39.

One of moves that unites a bit ‘all the big company is to keep well-hidden numbers of their business. To understand this, for example, that turnover has produced for the Android Google is a business. What happened in the last hour, however, it is a very singular fact. A fact that now threatens to turn into a financial trap because of the Mountain View giant. In the United States there is an ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle for a discussion related to the alleged infringement of intellectual property of the Java API, for which the firm Redwood claiming damages of $ 1 billion.

And within this process, during the last hearing, an attorney for Oracle has released some numbers that are immediately bounced on the average of all the world. Since 2005, the year of the acquisition, Android has enabled Google to generate $ 31 billion in revenue and $ 22 billion profit. At least this is the estimate that Oracle did, after getting the consent by the court to see the confidential documents of the other party.

But the spread of these figures has made the leap from the chair summits of Mountain View. Google has immediately claimed the move to Oracle, believing that this kind of information should remain private, “The disclosure by the lawyer is likely to have effects on the financial market and the whole business of Google” have made it clear from Big G. result, however, was partial. The judge dismissed the data from the transcripts of the proceedings, but the numbers have already been around the world.

The real problem now is that the offices of Google can not dispute the figures emerged, because it would mean to make public the real ones (assuming they are at variance with those published by Oracle). And one wonders what effect will this information markets. 31 billion in sales in 10 years are few or many?
Meanwhile, he has already left the confrontation with the rival, namely Apple. What most average Americans are emphasizing is that only in the last quarter, the company had sales of Cook (within iOS) $ 32.2 billion. The estimates, however, do not take into account the fact that sales in Apple there is also (very) hardware. Android, however, is only software. It is not a detail.

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