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  • Google and Microsoft AI showdown continues

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    After Microsoft and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported better-than-expected results yesterday, analysts say the race to dominate the burgeoning AI field is moving quickly. Alphabet’s robust performance saw a 3.3 per cent surge in ad revenue, as search revenue hit $42.63bn (£32.98bn), causing shares to climb six per cent on Wednesday. Despite the market applause, [...]

  • Google parent firm Alphabet’s profit ahead of expectations thanks to ad rebound

    Alphabet earnings

    Google owner Alphabet’s second-quarter profit exceeded expectations as it announced that long-time CFO, Ruth Porat, would assume a new role while the company sought a new finance chief. Alphabet’s results were helped by steady demand for its cloud services and a rebound in advertising. The shares jumped 8 per cent in after-hours trading. Shares of [...]

  • Big tech look ahead: Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon shares in focus

    Big tech earnings

    THE RACE to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence will dominate investor chatter around big tech this week, with all the big players set to release results to Wall Street.

  • LinkedIn latest tech giant to axe jobs blaming ‘drop in demand’

    May 9, 2023

    LinkedIn is culling over 700 jobs and closing its local app in China, blaming a slump in consumer demand and turbulent market conditions. In an email to LinkedIn employees, Ryan Roslanksy, LinkedIn chief executive. said the changes would be made in order to shake up the business, which is being hit by slower revenue growth.  [...]

  • Analysis: Big tech beats forecasts – but they’re not out of the woods yet

    April 28, 2023

    Meta, Microsoft, and Google’s parent, Alphabet, Amazon all showed signs of resilience this week after a bruising period for the tech sector. After many US tech firms laid off thousands of staff in response to low growth and inflationary pressures, each of these leading tech giants reported quarterly revenues and profits that beat analyst estimates, [...]

  • Google parent Alphabet announces stock buyback after modest beat on ad sales

    April 26, 2023

    Alphabet Inc said on Tuesday it would buy back $70bn (£56.3bn) in stock and posted first-quarter profit and revenue above estimates as demand rose for cloud services and ad sales held up better than expected. Investors cheered the buyback plan, sending shares of the Google parent as much as 4 per cent higher in after-hours trade before [...]

  • Betting firms face new tax to fund gambling addiction support, leaked report says

    April 6, 2023

    Betting firms may have to pay a new tax to fund support for gambling addicts, according to leaked details of the government’s upcoming gambling white paper. The exact rate has not been specified, but according to a report in The Sun, which published leaked details of the white paper late last night, said it could [...]

  • Google: Alphabet’s shares tank eight per cent after video blunder involving its version of ChatGPT

    February 9, 2023

    Google’s parent company Alphabet’s shares plummeted yesterday after its brand new AI chatbot answered a question wrong during a promotional video. The owner of Google saw shares crash almost eight per cent on Wednesday, causing a $100bn (£82bn) loss to its value. This comes after Alphabet announced that Google would be launching an integrating its [...]

  • Apple’s first reported revenue drop in four years adds to tech woes with Google also reporting a decline in sales

    February 3, 2023

    Apple posted its first quarterly revenue drop in nearly four years after pandemic-driven restrictions on its China factories curtailed sales of the latest iPhone . The company’s sales of $117bn (£96bn) between October and December period were down five per cent on the same quarter the previous year, a deeper downturn than analysts had projected. [...]

  • Google: Parent firm Alphabet announces 12,000 sackings worldwide as CEO Sundar Pichai takes ‘full responsibility’

    January 20, 2023

    Google’s parent company Alphabet has become the latest Silicon Valley powerhouse to announce a raft of redundancies across its global workforce. The tech giant said today that it would cut six per cent of its global workforce, around 12,000 people worldwide. “I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here,” chief executive Sundar [...]

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