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		ghaff on Nov 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology Because they're a public company and are therefore required by the SEC to provide a certain level of disclosure about the sources of their revenue.

amaks on Nov 14, 2014 [–]

I understand that, but it's not what I meant. I meant is how he knew that other products such as Play store are not profitable? I don't think Google breaks down the profit reports to this level of granularity, so it might be just reported as an ad revenue/profits.

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