tedster - 7:49 pm on Feb 14, 2012 (gmt 0)

If you want Google's official input, the place to go is their own forums - we're not a venue to communicate with Google.

I've worked with many international businesses who own both a .com and many country code TLDs. I've never seen any way that Google uses something like the "value" of the business to influence rankings of the individual domains.