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Lin Yuan UCR Extension 1200 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507 Phone:312-623-9399 Email:[email protected] Company Stock Prices Analysis GOOGLE (GOOG) Google is the world famous search engine company in the whole world. The GOOG shares price raised 2% from July 18th to August 1st. On July 19th, the share price went up a little bit and then went down to the same price the next day. From July 20th to July 26th, the shares price of GOOG rose up every day. According to the strategy analytics data report on July 22nd, in the second quarter, Apple iPad is still on the top of the global tablet PC market with the share 61.3%. But the tablet PC with the Google Android operating system raised nearly 10 times than before, so the Google’s developing momentum is amazing. Several weeks ago, Google launched a social networking service Google+. So far, Google+ has a great progress. comScore data released Wednesday(July 20th) show, the unique visitors number reached 20 million already since Google+ launch, of which the number of visitors from United States(U.S.) is 500 million. And Google+ has more than 10 million users, which indicates that Google has more opportunities than ever before. According to all the positive information, more people bought stock in GOOG in order to see the profit in future which leaded to the rapid rise in stock price. And on July 26th, GOOG shares price reached the top point in these two weeks. On July 27th, Experian Hitwise market research agency said, the visitors’ number of Google+ in U.S. reduced last week, and the visitors’ residence time is shorter than before, which indicate that Google’s fast gro ۈ