Alphabet

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes (t.co)
2024-8-4 Amazon Microsoft AI Alphabet

The Biden administration says Apple agreed to White House's voluntary safeguards for AI, joining the ranks of OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-26 Amazon Microsoft AI Apple Alphabet

Alphabet To Invest Another $5 Billion Into Waymo (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-7-24 Alphabet

Alphabet reports Other Bets Q2 revenue of $365M, up from $285M in Q2 2023, a $1.13B loss, up from $813M, and announces a “multiyear” investment of $5B in Waymo (www.cnbc.com)
2024-7-24 Alphabet

Alphabet Q2: revenue of $84.7B, up 14% YoY, net income of $23.6B, up 29% YoY, Google Cloud revenue of $10.3B, up from $8B YoY, and headcount down 1% to 179,582 (abc.xyz)
2024-7-24 Google Alphabet

Italy's antitrust agency launches a probe into Google and Alphabet over alleged unfair commercial practices related to consent requests Google sends to users (www.reuters.com)
2024-7-18 Italy Google Alphabet

A profile of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz, founded in 2020, and its co-founders, as Alphabet prepares a $23B deal; a source says each co-founder owns 9% (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-15 Israel Startup Alphabet

Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B, which would be its largest acquisition ever (www.wsj.com)
2024-7-15 Startup Alphabet

Sources: Alphabet shelves efforts to acquire HubSpot after the sides failed to reach the point of detailed discussions around due diligence; HUBS plunges 10%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-11 Alphabet

Alphabet winds down agriculture startup Mineral, which became an independent subsidiary in 2023, and is licensing some of its tech to berry producer Driscoll's (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-3 Startup Alphabet

Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US (www.calcalistech.com)
2024-6-30 Israel Alphabet

Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke steps down to explore “AI/bio” projects within Alphabet; sources say Platforms & Devices team is undergoing a reorg (9to5google.com)
2024-6-13 Android AI Alphabet

Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta account for 30% of the S&P 500 Index, up from ~26% at the start of the year, after a surge driven by Nvidia (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-31 Amazon Microsoft Apple Nvidia Alphabet

HubSpot shares jump 8%+ after CNBC's David Faber reported that Alphabet is in talks about an all-stock bid for the company (www.cnbc.com)
2024-5-29 Alphabet

Sources: Alphabet and Meta are in talks with Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren't willing (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-24 AI Netflix Alphabet

A profile of Alphabet's moonshot X lab, as it carves out a path in which projects spin off as independent startups, after years of debate and experimentation (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-21 Startup Alphabet

Alphabet debuts beefed-up AI search and chatbot as competition heats up (indianexpress.com)
2024-5-15 AI chatbot Alphabet

The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Alphabet's Waymo, covering an estimated 444 vehicles and following 22 reports of 22 incidents, including 17 collisions (www.reuters.com)
2024-5-14 Alphabet

Scientists find an ‘alphabet' in whale songs (indianexpress.com)
2024-5-10 Alphabet

Sources: Alphabet has been progressing in talks to acquire marketing software provider HubSpot and has discussed terms; HubSpot has a $30B market cap (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-9 Alphabet

Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' In Whale Songs (science.slashdot.org)
2024-5-9 Alphabet

Researchers say they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning, a breakthrough in understanding cetacean communication (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-8 Machine Learning Alphabet

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2024-4-28 Alphabet

Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-28 Microsoft AI Alphabet

Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as stock for both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months (www.wsj.com)
2024-4-27 Microsoft AI Alphabet

Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-4-27 Alphabet

Alphabet Shares Jump 14% On Earnings Beat, First-Ever Dividend (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-4-26 Alphabet

Alphabet announces its first-ever dividend and authorizes the repurchase of up to an additional $70B of its Class A and Class C shares (www.reuters.com)
2024-4-26 Alphabet

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz)
2024-4-26 Alphabet

Japan's FTC says Google blocked Yahoo Japan from accessing targeted ad revenue from mobile searches between 2015 and 2022; Alphabet changed its practices (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-4-22 Japan Google Mobile Yahoo Alphabet

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