Alphabet, Google’s parent company, just made in three months what it took until recently an entire year to earn. That is a level of growth that companies of its size rarely if ever achieve, but the pandemic has erased all the limits for tech firms. The search and advertising company on Tuesday reported record profits and revenue for the second quarter, vindicating the enthusiasm of investors who doubled its value on the stock market since early last year. The stellar results pushed shares… Source link

Stock futures added to losses in late trading on Tuesday, with investors digesting a slew of Big Tech earnings results and looking ahead to another set of reports on Wednesday. A monetary policy statement from the Federal Reserve is also slated for release. Contracts on the S&P 500 dipped about 0.25% at the start of the overnight session. The index, as well as the Dow and Nasdaq, pulled back from record levels during the regular trading day.  Shares of Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) fell… Source link

Business is good for Mountain View, California-based Google. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google’s battle with antitrust… Source link

Alphabet, the parent company of search giant Google (GOOG, GOOGL) blew away Wall Street’s second quarter estimates on Tuesday, bolstered by strength in advertising and cloud computing. Here were the main results from Alphabet’s report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Thanks to the tech giant’s linchpin, Google Search, ad revenues skyrocketed by 69% from the comparable year ago quarter. Overall total revenue soared by 62% from Q2 of 2020. During the quarter, “there was a… Source link

Google parent Alphabet posted $50.44 billion in sales from advertising, a 69% increase helped by a red-hot U.S. market where ad-spending is on track to be the fastest in the postwar era. YouTube’s ad business collected $7 billion in revenue, increasing 84% from a year earlier. The expected results should deepen investor confidence that Alphabet emerged stronger after the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated e-commerce purchases, online food orders and streaming video consumption, analysts say…. Source link

Last quarter, Google roared out of the post-pandemic-peak period with a record $17.9 billion in profit, finally joining other tech giants that had been raking it in despite (or perhaps because of) the rise of COVID-19. But Alphabet’s Q2 2021 earnings do it one better — the company just set an all-time record revenue of $61.9 billion this quarter, and record profits for the fourth quarter in a row at $18.5 billion. Some of the numbers the company’s posting today (PDF) are nearly… Source link

By Sheila Dang, Nivedita Balu (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet Inc’s quarterly revenue and profit surged to record highs, the company reported on Tuesday, powered by a rise in advertising spending as more consumers shopped online. Shares of Alphabet, the world’s largest provider of search and video ads, rose 3.3% in extended trading after the results, which handily beat analyst estimates. Shares of Facebook, which competes with Google in web ad sales and reports its own results on… Source link

In Silicon Valley, Google has acquired billions of dollars of property that’s at risk for flooding as sea levels continue to rise. That’s raising questions about whether it’s safe to build at all. Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Getty Images Alphabet reported Q2 2021 earnings after the bell. The stock rose more than 4% on the strong numbers, which crushed analyst expectations. Here are the results. Earnings per share (EPS): $27.26 vs $19.34 per share, according to Refinitiv estimates. Revenue: $61.88 billion vs $56.16 billion, according to Refinitiv estimates. YouTube advertising revenue: $7.00 billion vs $6.37 billion expected, according to StreetAccount estimates. Google Cloud revenue:… Source link

Enlarge / Google Cloud Platform, no longer perpetually under construction? Google’s reputation for aggressively killing products and services is hurting the company’s brand. Any new product launch from Google is no longer a reason for optimism; instead, the company is met with questions about when the product will be shut down. It’s a problem entirely of Google’s own making, and it’s yet another barrier that discourages customers from… Source link