Alphabet Inc

For two decades, the 21-year-old company has been viewed as an online marketing tool that sells ads through its web search results. But now, the internet company is ready to show it has much more to offer. Last week, it reported fourth-quarter earnings for 2020 that beat market expectations and...

After the FANGs, FAANGs and MAGAs, another acronym taking the investment world by storm is FANGMAN. This acronym is used by traders to refer to stocks of seven of the biggest tech companies in the world. The combined market capitalization of these stocks is about $7.9 trillion, which is roughly 25...

U.S. markets in the week ahead could see a bounce after Friday's modest drop, as the country settles into the post-election period. Earnings Resiliency: Although new record COVID-19 numbers could drag share prices, corporate earnings have proved surprisingly resilient, giving momentum to...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) have changed our everyday life for good. Besides its enormous ecosystem, Alphabet's Google is indisputably the most popular search engine across the globe. Twitter's platform has become a...

Eric Schmidt, who had led Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and former entity Google Inc. since 2001 in executive roles, cut all ties with the company in February this year, according to a CNet report on Saturday. Schmidt was the chief executive officer of Google Inc. between 2001 and...

New Mexico has sued Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google for allegedly violating children’s data privacy. What Happened A lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s attorney general Hector Balderas on Thursday alleged that Alphabet-owned Google collected information such as...

Streaming platforms like those of Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE: SPOT), Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominated music consumption in 2019 as sales of physical albums continued their downward spiral, according to the annual survey of Nielsen Music. What Happened...

Forbes published its annual list of most powerful women on Thursday. Merkel At The Top — Again Angela Merkel, whom Forbes describes as the "de facto leader of Europe," has been voted the most powerful woman in the world for the 12th time since she was elected Germany's...

Last week, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s Waymo became the first to test fully autonomous vehicles on public roads without a front-seat technician. The firm still faces challenges in public perception and regulation, but it’s taking strides with education partnerships,...

Batteries have a long history, dating back to 1798, when Italian physicist Count Alessandro Volta built a primitive battery consisting of a stack of paired copper zinc disks separated by cardboard disks moistened with a salt or acid solution. Although devices have advanced tremendously over the...

There is certainly plenty of autonomous vehicle technology to be excited about in coming years. However, according to RBC analyst Joseph Spak, bringing this type of advanced technology to the mass market may prove to be much more challenging than investors are anticipating. So far, Alphabet Inc...