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Google CEO Larry Page was on stage with Charlie Rose at a TED conference on March 19. Page shared key insights on many topics, his vision of the future, success and failures, NSA, self-driving cars, medical records, and much more. Here are some excerpts from his talk: " The main thing that has caused companies to fail , in my view, is that they missed the future " "We are still at the very early stages with search. Computers don't know where you are and what you are doing" " When we bought Android, it was small and I felt guilty working on it, but it was smart, it was the future " “ He (Elon Musk) wants to go to Mars... That’s a worthy goal. We have a lot of employees at Google who’ve become pretty wealthy. You’re working because you want to change the world and make it better; if the company you work for is worthy of your time, why not your money as well? We just don’t think about that. I’d like for us to help out more than we are. ” " Wouldn...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is poised to announce a record quarter today... not only on financial metrics including revenue, revenue growth, earnings and earnings growth, but also on user metrics including traffic, volume, impressions, clicks, users. Why the bullish sentiment for Google? Fourth quarter is a holiday quarter with major online shopping events: Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Christmas shopping. All these translate to more people searching online for the best deals, and using Google for searching, researching and finding what they need. Google is a Top 20 innovator of the Innovation Index .  What to watch out for? Overall search volume, net traffic, number of clicks, unique users. But perhaps the most important metric that smartphone users would be thinking about is: Daily Android activations - would it surpass 2 million? Is Android winning the smartphone war? And whether Google can profit from Androids. Would Google charge smartphone makers for new Android acti...