{"id":152719,"date":"2016-01-22T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=152719"},"modified":"2016-01-22T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T07:28:25","slug":"how-much-money-google-makes-from-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152719-how-much-money-google-makes-from-android.html","title":{"rendered":"How much money Google makes from Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has earned\u00a0$31 billion in revenue and a total of $22 billion (R363 billion) in profit since Android was launched.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-01-21\/google-s-android-generates-31-billion-revenue-oracle-says-ijor8hvt\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong>, Oracle lawyer\u00a0Annette Hurst revealed the figures as part of a legal battle with the search engine giant.<\/p>\n<p>The money is mostly made from\u00a0Google ads shown on Android phones and from the Play Store&#8217;s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That non-public financial data is highly sensitive, and public disclosure could have significant negative effects on Google&#8217;s business,&#8221;\u00a0said Google, after the numbers were disclosed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151173-heres-what-powers-google-and-facebooks-ai.html\">Here\u2019s what powers Google and Facebook\u2019s AI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/151283-top-sa-science-student-wants-to-take-on-google.html\">Top SA science student wants to take on Google<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how much Google earns from its mobile operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,167],"class_list":["post-152719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152721,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152719\/revisions\/152721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}