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Google Cloud Stumbled and Unplugged the Internet: Here's How the 'Crash Loop' Began
For an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday, a self-inflicted outage wiped out popular websites and services, including Google's own.
Alphabet's Search Monopoly Remains Unshakeable Despite AI Hype
Alphabet Inc. is undervalued as search remains highly sticky, with significant user switching costs and dominant market share unlikely to erode quickly. AI competition fears are overstated; Alphabet's Gemini and proprietary TPUs provide a cost and performance edge, supporting future growth and monetization. Antitrust risks are manageable, with forced divestitures unlikely and probable remedies having limited impact on Alphabet's core business or profitability.
Google issues apology, incident report for hours-long cloud outage
Google on Friday apologized for a major outage that the company said was caused by multiple layers of flawed recent updates. The company released an incident report late on Friday that explained hours of downtime on Thursday.
Buy Alphabet Stock, Get Google Search For Free (Rating Upgrade)
Alphabet Inc.'s Q1 FY2025 results crushed estimates, with EPS up nearly 49%, showcasing robust growth despite market fears of it being an "AI-disrupted" entity rather than an "AI enabler." Google Search remains resilient, with 10% YoY revenue growth and 1.5 billion monthly AI Overview users, challenging narratives of its decline against LLM competitors like ChatGPT. Google Cloud is a rapidly expanding profit engine, boasting 28% YoY revenue growth and a significant operating margin jump, solidifying its position as a key AI player.
Alphabet Enters a Bull Market: Is It Time to Buy?
Shares of Alphabet NASDAQ: GOOGL are officially back in bull market territory, having surged more than 25% off their 52-week low and reclaimed the key 200-day simple moving average (SMA). While geopolitical tensions, such as Israel's recent strike on Iran and escalating fears of a broader conflict, have weighed on markets this morning, with GOOGL down around 2% in pre-market trading at the time of writing, the bigger picture suggests the stock may be staging a durable turnaround.
Exclusive: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans split after Meta deal, sources say
Alphabet's Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Google Cloud Stumbled and Unplugged the Internet: Here's How That Happened
The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.
Could Alphabet (GOOG) Be One of the Biggest Dividend Stocks in the Market?
Key Points Alphabet hasn't been paying dividends for very long, and the annual yield isn't impressive.
Here is What to Know Beyond Why Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) is a Trending Stock
Alphabet (GOOG) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
Investors Heavily Search Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL): Here is What You Need to Know
Alphabet (GOOGL) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
Barclays Says Alphabet's (GOOG) ‘Black Swan Event' Would Crush Shares 25%
[00:00:04] Doug McIntyre: So Lee, in the last week, we had an analyst talk about alphabet and what they called the Black Swan event.
Google cloud and other internet services are reporting outages
Google's cloud services were down for a period of time on Thursday, along with a number of other cloud offerings. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google showed, indicating that the outages began at 10:51 a.m.
