YouTube wipes $7.6bn off owner Alphabet
2 years, 2 months ago

YouTube wipes $7.6bn off owner Alphabet

The Telegraph  

Google’s parent company suffered a sharp fall in its share price after revealing the first ever decline in advertising revenues at its YouTube video streaming service. It came as Microsoft revealed a slowdown in sales in its cloud computing arm, and the music streaming service Spotify announced that advertising revenue was growing more slowly than expected. We’re working to realign resources to fuel our highest growth priorities.” Alphabet’s share price has fallen 28pc since January, broadly tracking the wider technology markets, which have seen a steady sell-off during the year. The company briefly dipped last week after Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc reported slower-than-expected growth, triggering a 25pc crash in its own price during after-hours trading.

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Alphabet's Strong Performance Offers Clues for the Future of Google
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Alphabet's Strong Performance Offers Clues for the Future of Google

Live Mint  

Google's Q3 results show strong performance, with revenue and operating income exceeding Wall Street expectations. The company's cloud-computing operation, Google Cloud, saw significant growth, while its services segment generated a healthy profit despite some concerns about AI spending. Despite the challenges posed by antitrust cases, Alphabet is committed to delivering a robust bottom line and maintaining its status as a …

Google Being Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Spent over $2bn laying people off in 2023, $700mn in 2024
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Google Being Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Spent over $2bn laying people off in 2023, $700mn in 2024

Firstpost  

Google spent a substantial $2.1 billion on severance packages and associated costs while downsizing its workforce by over 12,000 employees throughout 2023, as per a report by The Verge. Key contributors to this growth were Google’s core digital advertising and cloud computing businesses, which demonstrated consistent expansion, attributed by CEO Sundar Pichai to investments in generative AI. Despite the layoffs, …

Google parent Alphabet ad revenue disappoints, CapEx up; shares sink 6%
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Google parent Alphabet ad revenue disappoints, CapEx up; shares sink 6%

Live Mint  

Alphabet disappointed Wall Street on Tuesday as holiday-season advertising sales came in below expectations and the company said its spending on items such as servers to power artificial intelligence would jump this year. "Alphabet's disappointing ad revenue numbers suggest that corporations worldwide are still uncertain about the pace of interest rate cuts from global central banks," said Thomas Monteiro, an …

Alphabet Q3 result: Google Cloud miss overshadows earnings, shares fall over 5%
1 year, 2 months ago

Alphabet Q3 result: Google Cloud miss overshadows earnings, shares fall over 5%

Live Mint  

Google-parent Alphabet's cloud business missed revenue estimates, leading the company's share price to fall over 5% after hours. Google Cloud third-quarter revenue rose 22.5% to $8.41 billion, while it posted operating income of $266 million, compared with an operating loss of $440 million a year ago. By contrast, revenue from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud unit, which houses the Azure cloud computing …

Google’s persistent ad slump weighs on Alphabet’s 1Q results
1 year, 7 months ago

Google’s persistent ad slump weighs on Alphabet’s 1Q results

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s advertising malaise persisted during the first quarter while the internet company also grapples with advancements in artificial intelligence technology that threaten to undercut its dominant search engine. An unprecedented downturn in Google’s digital ad revenue – the company’s main moneymaker for more than 20 years – came into sharper focus Tuesday with the release of the …

Google Ad Revenue Expected to Drop for Second Straight Quarter
1 year, 8 months ago

Google Ad Revenue Expected to Drop for Second Straight Quarter

Live Mint  

Google is expected to report a second straight drop in advertising revenue, extending a rare decline as the company battles economic uncertainty and tries to capitalize on recent advances in artificial intelligence. Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, is expected to report $53.7 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter, a drop of 1.8% from the same period last year, …

Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake
1 year, 10 months ago

Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

NPR  

Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake Enlarge this image toggle caption Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Google's parent company, Alphabet, lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new artificial intelligence technology produced a factual error in its first demo. In the fateful ad that ran on Google's Twitter feed …

Google, Apple, Amazon give investors reason to fret
1 year, 10 months ago

Google, Apple, Amazon give investors reason to fret

The Hindu  

Wall Street had its eyes on Friday on big tech after some of the biggest companies in the world posted lacklustre quarterly financial performances. The company posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven restrictions on its China factories curtailed sales of the latest iPhone during the holiday season. Amazon reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter profits, but its …

YouTube Shorts Now Gets 50 Billion Views Daily: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
1 year, 10 months ago

YouTube Shorts Now Gets 50 Billion Views Daily: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

News 18  

YouTube Shorts, Google’s answer to TikTok, is now averaging over 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion that was last reported, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced. Together with our YouTube Primetime channel subscriptions and YouTube TV, we have good momentum here,” Pichai said during the analysts’ call late on Thursday. In December, the National Football League …

Alphabet posts lower Q4 profit amid ad squeeze, competition
1 year, 10 months ago

Alphabet posts lower Q4 profit amid ad squeeze, competition

Associated Press  

Google’s parent company Alphabet on Thursday posted lower profit and a small revenue increase for last year’s fourth quarter, as a decline in online ad spending and competition from rivals weigh on the search giant. Alphabet, like Facebook parent Meta, Amazon and other tech companies, is navigating a rough economic patch that’s especially hurting the online advertising market. In response …

Google parent Alphabet's miss fans inflation fears across digital advertising
2 years, 1 month ago

Google parent Alphabet's miss fans inflation fears across digital advertising

The Hindu  

Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s disappointing ad sales sparked worries across the digital media sector on Tuesday as advertisers cut back on their spending in the face of an economic slowdown. The negative results shattered many expectations that Google, which is the world's largest digital advertising platform by market share, would remain strong in a weakening economy and reinforced worries on …

Alphabet’s revenue miss fans fears of economic slowdown
2 years, 2 months ago

Alphabet’s revenue miss fans fears of economic slowdown

Al Jazeera  

The negative results reinforced worries that inflation will continue to hurt advertising spending. Google parent Alphabet Inc has missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue as advertisers cut back on spending in the face of an economic slowdown. Last week, smaller rival Snap Inc’s slowest-ever revenue growth rate sent inflation fears through the tech sector and temporarily wiped out $40bn …

YouTube’s quarter shows problems Meta may face: TikTok, weakening economy
2 years, 4 months ago

YouTube’s quarter shows problems Meta may face: TikTok, weakening economy

The Hindu  

Mostly reassuring financial results from Alphabet Inc included one concerning sign for social media companies: Its YouTube service posted its second difficult quarter in a row. This indicates that last week's disastrous earnings report by Snap Inc reflected problems not unique to Snap - and it could also spell trouble for Meta Platforms Inc, whose results are due later on …

Google’s parent reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years
2 years, 4 months ago

Google’s parent reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years

The Hindu  

Google’s revenue growth during the past quarter decelerated to its slowest pace in two years as advertisers reined in their spending amid intensifying fears of an economic recession. YouTube’s ad revenue rose by 5% from the previous year during the second quarter, the lowest rate of year-over-year quarterly growth since Alphabet began to disclose the video site’s financial results in …

Google’s parent reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years
2 years, 4 months ago

Google’s parent reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s revenue growth during the past quarter decelerated to its slowest pace in two years as advertisers reined in their spending amid intensifying fears of an economic recession. YouTube’s ad revenue rose by 5% from the previous year during the second quarter, the lowest rate of year-over-year quarterly growth since Alphabet began to disclose the video site’s …

Alphabet misses on revenue as YouTube falls short, inflation pressures ad sales
2 years, 7 months ago

Alphabet misses on revenue as YouTube falls short, inflation pressures ad sales

The Hindu  

Google parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday reported first-quarter revenue below expectations as YouTube sharply missed Wall Street targets and ad sales were pressured by supply-chain and inflation concerns and the war in Ukraine. Alphabet said first-quarter sales were $68.01 billion, 23% higher than last year but below the average estimate of $68.1 billion among financial analysts tracked by Refinitiv, its …

Amazon trots out YouTube-sized advertising business
2 years, 10 months ago

Amazon trots out YouTube-sized advertising business

The Hindu  

Amazon pulled the veil off its sprawling advertising business for the first time on Thursday, revealing a business larger than that of Google's YouTube. Analyst Benedict Evans on Twitter said that made Amazon's ad revenue similar in size to the entire global newspaper industry, and Statista put global newspaper annual ad spending at $29.5 billion. An Amazon official however told …

Google parent Alphabet posts profit over $18 billion in third quarter; Twitter suffers $537 million loss
3 years, 1 month ago

Google parent Alphabet posts profit over $18 billion in third quarter; Twitter suffers $537 million loss

Firstpost  

From July to September, its video service sold $7.2 billion of advertising space targeted according to content and users, against $5 billion in the same period last year, according to Alphabet San Francisco, United States: Google’s parent company Alphabet announced profits Tuesday that jumped to $18.9 billion, even as the online colossus faces increased regulatory pressure and shifting of the …

Google growth marred by disappointing result in YouTube, cloud computing sectors
3 years, 1 month ago

Google growth marred by disappointing result in YouTube, cloud computing sectors

Hindustan Times  

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported quarterly sales that topped Wall Street estimates, reflecting robust advertiser spending, but disappointing results from its YouTube and cloud-computing divisions weighed on the stock. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai has tried to keep Alphabet’s revenue engine chugging along by prioritising three areas: e-commerce, YouTube, and cloud computing. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said on a …

Google Parent Alphabet Suffers First Revenue Loss in Company History Due to Covid-19 Fallout
4 years, 4 months ago

Google Parent Alphabet Suffers First Revenue Loss in Company History Due to Covid-19 Fallout

News 18  

Despite strong growth in Google Cloud, Alphabet saw its revenue declining for the first time to $38.3 billion in the quarter that ended June 30. "We're working to help people, businesses and communities in these uncertain times," said Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "As people increasingly turn to online services, our platforms — from Cloud to Google Play to …

Alphabet’s revenue fell for first time ever as Covid hit ads
4 years, 4 months ago

Alphabet’s revenue fell for first time ever as Covid hit ads

Live Mint  

Alphabet Inc.’s revenue growth machine ground to a halt for the first time in the company’s two-decade history, stopped by the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic fallout that forced advertisers to pull back spending. But Google’s ad sales were picking back up again by the end of the quarter, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said on a conference call. “We …

Google ad rebound offsets Alphabet's first-ever sales drop
4 years, 4 months ago

Google ad rebound offsets Alphabet's first-ever sales drop

India Today  

Google’s ad sales have recovered since plummeting in March during the coronavirus pandemic, parent Alphabet said on Thursday, easing concerns about its first quarterly sales slide in its 16 years as a public company. Alphabet shares were barely changed at $1,552, above their pre-pandemic high, after it said revenue fell 2 per cent in the second quarter, less than analysts’ …

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