Alphabet Inc (GOOG)
Meta, Google face ‘Big Tobacco'-like reckoning after landmark verdicts on social media addiction
Social media giants Meta and Google had their long-feared “Big Tobacco” moment after suffering a pair of devastating court losses this week – and the real legal trouble is likely just beginning, experts told The Post.
Alphabet's AI Innovation Sparks Decline in Memory Chip Stocks
Shares of memory chip makers slumped on Thursday amid signs AI developers are developing workarounds to the supply bottleneck that's driven up memory prices over the past year.
GOOGL & META Lawsuit "Watershed Moment" for Social Media?
The plaintiff of a case against Alphabet (GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (META) won a lawsuit tying the companies to social media addiction in young audiences. Marley Kayden keys investors into the most important takeaways from the case and why it serves as a "watershed moment" for social media and mental health.
Credo: Alphabet Just Announced A Game Changer
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd is strategically positioned to capitalize on AI infrastructure's shift toward efficient memory connectivity and high-bandwidth networking. This is corroborated by Alphabet's newest innovation, which complements Credo's product roadmap in targeting intensifying AI memory and networking bottlenecks in scaling high-volume inference workloads. Current industry dynamics underscore opportunistic alignment with CRDO's upcoming roadmap, which spans ALCs, ZeroFlap Optics, and Weaver memory connectivity.
Meta Platforms Slips as Legal Verdict and AI Spending Concerns Converge: What Investors Need to Know
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) is under pressure this Thursday as three distinct catalysts converge on the stock.
Alphabet's Bull Trap Playing Out: Buy The AI/Advertising Leader's Selloff
Alphabet Inc.'s diversified growth in cloud/TPU/AI has worked as intended in entrenching their customers within their ecosystem, resulting in the impressive multi-year RPO of $242.8B in FY2025 (+160.5% YoY). Google Search and YouTube will likely remain their bread and butter, with the AI integration already driving their leading search engine/streaming share globally. The recent correction has improved GOOG's risk/reward profile at a notably cheaper P/E of ~25x while triggering the rich upside potential to my long-term price target of $388.20.
A Google AI breakthrough is pressuring memory chip stocks from Samsung to Micron
Google said this week that its research on a new compression method could reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models by six times. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron shares fell as investors fear fewer memory chips may be required in the future.
These Stocks Are Today's Movers: Meta, Alphabet, Newmont, Pony AI, and More
Meta and Alphabet shares slip after a woman wins a trial where she accused the companies of designing their apps to be addictive.
US jury verdicts against Meta, Google tee up fight over tech liability shield
Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta and Alphabet's Google liable, potentially teeing up an appeals fight that could reshape how U.S. law shields tech companies from lawsuits.
Google top India counsel quits in latest departure amid regulatory hurdles, sources say
Google's top India counsel, Bijoya Roy, has resigned after 16 months in the role, two sources said, a high-profile exit in a key market where the U.S. tech giant is facing regulatory hurdles and also lacks a government relations head.
Meta, Google Found Liable in Social Media Addiction Case
A Los Angeles jury found that Google and Meta are liable and must pay damages to a woman who alleged that social media platforms from the tech companies were addicting and caused her to have a mental health crisis. Bloomberg's June Grasso broke down the landmark case and said because it is the first of its kind to go to trial, it is a bellwether for future cases, but also cautioned against reading too much precedent into one case.
California Jury Finds Meta and YouTube Designed Platforms to Be Addictive
There could be more settlements of lawsuits alleging that social media companies design their platforms to be addictive following the success of such a lawsuit in a California court on Wednesday (March 25), The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
