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...Analysts also flagged improvements to Alphabet’s operating margin, which expanded to 32 per cent from 25 per cent a year ago, beating expectations for 29 per cent....
...Jim Tierney, head of US growth at AllianceBernstein, said that Alphabet’s first-quarter results reported on Thursday “didn’t lay the questions [about AI] to rest....
...The EU has launched probes into Apple, Alphabet and Meta in the first use of a landmark new law designed to rein in Big Tech’s market power....
...But the novelty of Alphabet’s new 20 cents-per-share dividend plus $70bn buyback programme eclipsed this....
...Ad revenue accounts for almost 80 per cent of Alphabet’s top line....
...In November, the Nomura chief said he would target another $100mn in cost cuts in the wholesale banking division as he tries to attain a target of 8 to 10 per cent return on equity for the bank....
...Microsoft is now worth more than $3tn compared with Alphabet’s of market cap of slightly less than $2tn....
...The EU this morning announced investigations into Apple, Alphabet and Meta in the first applications of its landmark Digital Markets Act....
...Microsoft and Alphabet report earnings this afternoon; Apple, Amazon and Meta follow on Thursday....
...Friday interview: Herbert Hovenkamp If you own shares in Apple, Alphabet, Meta or Amazon, you need to know about US antitrust law....
...Alphabet’s programme, the second largest, was less than half that at $240bn. Alphabet’s buybacks were also not much larger than the size of its R&D spend over the period....
Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI agree at Munich Security Conference to stifle content designed to mislead voters
...Sundar Pichai, Alphabet and Google chief executive, said on Tuesday that there were “signs of stabilisation”....
...Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia are all beating the market to a greater (Nvidia) or a lesser (Alphabet) degree....
...While four of the seven have continued to outperform the wider stock market, Alphabet has lagged behind the S&P 500, and Tesla and Apple have been the two largest drags on the index....
...The news outlet/hedge fund Hunterbrook, in its debut article/short sale, sent the stock of United Wholesale Mortgage down 8 per cent....
...Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla propped up the S&P index of blue-chip US companies last year as investors grew excited about the potential of AI, generating 62 per cent of its...
...Alphabet and Microsoft customers were in “‘buy AI now, figure it out if it works later’ mode”, said Forrester analyst Lee Sustar....
...That’s one in every seventeen people with a job — 10 per cent of people working in wholesale and retail, and 17 per cent of people in the information and communication industry are directly employed by a...
...Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google parent Alphabet and music streaming service Spotify are among the companies that have signalled plans to strike such a balance this year....
...See also social media network Snap, Alphabet and Meta....
...Alphabet fell 10 per cent yesterday after cloud computing sales undershot. Meta stock also sold off after-hours, despite crushing earnings expectations. More on this below....
Tech group’s AI tools will assist project to track oil and gas infrastructure
...That has helped push its shares up another 49 per cent this year – yesterday supplanting Alphabet as America’s third most valuable company, Meanwhile, Tesla options trading volumes have stayed relatively...
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