Google fourth-quarter consolidated revenue tops Wall Street target

With the aid of Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc's consolidated income beat Wall Street's goal within the fourth quarter whilst pricing for its on-line advertisements weakened right through the vacation season. Shares of Google, the sector's No.1 Web search engine, were essentially flat at $1136.94 in after hours trading on Thursday. Google's consolidated revenue, which includes the money-shedding Motorola smartphone business, rose to $sixteen.86 billion from $14.42 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S have been looking for $sixteen.seventy five billion.