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All numbers are in mn USD

Revenue Q3 2010 .. Q2 2011: $170.7 $195.8 $242.9 $279.1

Total cost and expenses: 136.4 124.3 206.7 266.1

- Cost of revenue: 49.9 51.6 67.6 78.1

- R&D: 39.8 51.5 71.8 95.7

- Sales and marketing: 28.9 38.3 40.2 38.1

- General and administrative: 17.8 (17.1) 27.1 54.2

Income (loss) from operations: 34.3 71.5 36.2 13.0

Net income: 27.2 43.0 16.8 1.4

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Spending lots on R&D, and sales spend being flat while revenues increasing like that. Looking pretty healthy to me.

On the other hand they appear to be overspending in R&D, given that their primary products are derivative copycats of everything that's popular. (or are bandwidth and servers considered R&D?)

Maybe they are trying to create something big that is not a copycat.

Thank you for the answer. So, the biggest costs are in R&D, so actually they should more an investment than expenses (but I wonder if sw maintenance is included there too).

By the way, does "General and administrative" include the infrastructure costs?

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