Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010

Google’s Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a US judge said in court.

The discussion of the finances of what has become the world's leading mobile operating software in just four years came during a damages hearing in high stakes litigation between Oracle and Google over smartphone technology. A jury is deliberating on Oracle's allegation that Google, the top Internet search engine, violated its copyright to parts of the Java programming language. In a hearing outside the jury's presence, US District Judge William Alsup quizzed attorneys for both companies about some of the Android financial information submitted in the case.