Google executives reflect on year at annual meeting from CNet News reports on yesterday’s shareholder meeting at Google. At the meeting was Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, co-founder Larry Page, VP of products Susan Wojcicki, VP of user experience Marissa Mayer, general counsel Kent Walker and others.

I wanted to sum up the key takeaways as reported at CNet News:

• Display advertising is Google’s “next huge business,” said Schmidt.
• Google will support Adobe’s Flash, likely in the next version of Android.
• Google won’t answer phone calls from their shareholders.
• Google continues to talk about openness when presented with questions about Facebook.
• Supposedly, there are rumors that Google would pay AdMob $700 million even if the FTC blocks the deal. Schmidt was asked about it at the meeting, but did not give an answer if those rumors were true or false.

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