"We start in the large metropolitan areas where we know we have users, where it's easy for us to drive and we can execute quickly," says Stafford Marquardt, a product manager for Street View. "I found it quite jarring that a lot of the countries in the region were not on the map." "When you look at Street View, you're looking at this mosaic of images that show how people live across the world, how people conduct commerce, how people get around," he says. As Kanhema looked around more, many Western cities were on the platform, but only a handful of African countries were. The busy streets and shops, the schools he attended - none of it was there, and neither was the rest of Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa with a population of more than 14 million. A self-described tech enthusiast now some 10,000 miles away from home, he was eager to see a virtual tour of the city.īut there was nothing to see. So when Tawanda Kanhema moved to the United States in 2009, he looked up his hometown of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city, on the map of panoramic images. One of the first things people do when they use Google Street View is check out the place where they live. Revenue rose to $418.8 million from $286.8 million in the year-ago quarter, the company said, as billings grew 40% to $482.3 million.Īnalysts had forecast earnings of 42 cents a share on revenue of $411.6 million, and billings of $469.2 million.Īs of Thursday’s close, Zscaler’s stock is up 20.7% year to date, compared with a 9.9% gain by the S&P 500 indexĪ 25.2% increase by the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite IndexĪnd an 11.Tawanda Kanhema in 2018 wearing Google Street View camera gear at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Adjusted net income, which excludes stock-based compensation and other items, was 48 cents a share, compared with 17 cents a share in the year-ago period. The company reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $46 million, or 32 cents a share, compared with a loss of $101.4 million, or 72 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Last quarter, the company said it expected full-year earnings of $1.52 to $1.53 on about $1.56 billion revenue, and billings of $1.94 billion to $1.95 billion.Īnalysts had estimated $1.56 a share on revenue of $1.58 billion, and billings of $1.96 billion for the year. The company forecast full-year earnings of $1.63 to $1.64 a share on revenue of about $1.59 billion, and billings of $1.97 billion to $1.98 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had estimated 47 cents a share on revenue of $387.3 million and billings of $657.5 million for the quarter. The company forecast adjusted earnings of about 49 cents a share on revenue of $429 million to $431 million for the fiscal fourth quarter.
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