STEVE INSKEEP, Host: The business news with a new record for corporate profits.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: The giant Internet company Google also says its earnings are soaring. The company says fourth quarter profits nearly tripled from last year. A lot of clicking on all those ads you see on Google's search sites contributed to a 67 percent rise in revenues. Google's quarterly profits totaled about $3.2 billion dollars.
Exxon Mobil says it earned $39.5 billion for the year 2006, even though fourth-quarter profits were off from the year before. It's the highest annual profit ever recorded by a U.S. company. Meanwhile, Internet ad sales at Google are on the rise. The company says its fourth-quarter profits nearly tripled.