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19 Jan 2010

The Facebook group I’m With COCO (the same one that we wrote about last week) organized rallies to support The Tonight Show’s Conan O’Brien in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Seattle today.

Artist Mike Mitchell, who designed the now almost iconic group image, is tweeting the I’m With COCO rally right now, TwitPics and all.

The L.A. crowd is assembled right outside the studio where Conan and crew tape The Tonight Show, and they’re accompanied by stuntman Steven Ho, who was one of Conan’s first guests on the show. He made a YouTube video to promote the movement. The group has more than 300,000 fans.

The protesters are using signs courtesy of Signazon featuring the I’m With COCO image. The Facebook event page for the L.A. event has 1,600 confirmed guests and just over 1,000 maybes. Chicago’s event: 549 confirmed, 481 maybes. That’s a mighty impressive turnout for a show host who’s already definitely out of a job for now. Here’s the first TwitPic of the event.

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Analysts Give Google Thumbs Up For Diversifying

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9 Jan 2010

Once upon a time, Google was a company that specialized in search and advertising. Now, it’s tossing out advanced mobile phones and requesting the right to buy and sell energy. Still, several financial analysts think these not-entirely-conventional moves are a good idea.

Google Logo Sharon Gaudin spoke to Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group, Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research, and Dan Olds of the Gabriel Consulting Group. All three individuals saw potential upsides to Google branching out. It might do extremely well in the new markets, or at least, manage to sell a few more ads.

Enderle even argued that moving on might be necessary for Google, stating, "Ultimately search isn’t sustainable. Google search could become irrelevant. You eventually could have specialized search providers or Google search could become part of something else and just fade into the background."

Anyway, the risk that Google will perform poorly in its new endeavors was viewed as tolerable by the group. A corporate giant with a market share of around 65 percent and a market cap of about $190 billion can afford a misstep or two, after all.

On the subject of financial performance, here’s one other thing worth noting: Google’s stock is up 0.99 percent at the moment, so its recent mobile- and energy-related announcements haven’t exactly caused investors to run away.

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