That makes for some great PR but that's about it. Ironically, the first casualty of lower earnings growth will be the side projects. Voting shares or not, share

That makes for some great PR but that's about it. Ironically, the first casualty of lower earnings growth will be the side projects. Voting shares or not, shareholder holding $300 Billion will vote at least by selling some and that hurts employees, hiring and everything. Google is probably a decade from making money with its automated cars--if they are even any better than manufacturer's own system (everyone is working on it.) Will they spend $10 Billion or whatever it takes to build their own cars? License it? For how much and will they make a profit on it?