—Online advertising:  CFO Chris Liddell:  “We’re aiming to become one of the major players in the online advertising space, and we are pleased by the progress we are making in putting the building blocks in place. ... We will continue to invest in this business, as we’ve told you before. For example, in building a differentiated search experience in the four high value verticals of commerce, local search and mapping, entertainment and health, which collectively represent 40 percent of all global searches.” AQuantive will add $500 million of revenue for the year.

—Growth: Responding to a question of organic growth versus acquired growth, Liddell said: “We’re particularly happy that we not only closed aQuantive but we’ve retained all of the employees. We think that integration has gone extremely well and we believe that’s going to generate some significant benefits going forward. We also did some other smaller acquisitions, ones which we think are important for the ad platform, like AdECN during the quarter, and then the announcement yesterday on Facebook, which is a willingness on our part to make a commitment to a multi-year agreement with a partner who we think has got some tremendous growth opportunities. ... We are willing to do both. We are quite clearly willing to suffer an operating loss in that position as a result of those commitments.”