[Geowanking] cost of "maps" to the various private providers

[Harsha Vardhan]

It would really be an interesting study.. a difficult one, especially when
we talk of revenues/spending etc of companies. I have seen this situation
before, when it comes to such kind of analysis.. It is rare to find the
breakdown of individual initiatives (in this case the R&D and the Maps
component) in their reports :( 

I would like to hear from others on this.

-
Harsha Vardhan
http://twitter.com/harsham





-----Original Message-----
From: geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org
[mailto:geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org] On Behalf Of P Kishor
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:47 PM
To: geowanking at geowanking.org
Subject: [Geowanking] cost of "maps" to the various private providers

Is there any way to estimate how much does their spatial initiative
cost Google, Yahoo, Microsoft respectively, and how much they benefit
from them? Do they list somewhere estimates of the cost as well as the
impact on their respective bottom-lines of Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MS
Live Maps, etc.?

I have scanned Google's financial tables and form 10Q on the sec
website, but predictably, breakdown by their various initiatives is
not provided. They spent 13% of their 2007 revenues on R&D, but there
is no guessing if maps count as R&D or something else.

Any ideas on how to estimate such numbers?

-- 
Puneet Kishor

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