Alphabet's fourth-quarter results are expected to benefit from AI-powered Search and Cloud growth, but rising costs and stiff competition pose risks.
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Google billionaire Sergey Brin has been linked to two extravagant property purchases in neighboring states.
Google-owned self-driving vehicle startup Waymo is reportedly close to finalizing a $16 billion funding round. That new funding will value the company at $110 billion, more than double its current valuation, the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Jan. 31), citing sources familiar with the matter.
Alphabet is poised for continued double-digit growth, driven by AI momentum and dominance in digital advertising and cloud. The updated DCF model values GOOG at $360.65 per share, reflecting higher growth, margins, and reduced regulatory risk. Recent antitrust rulings and surging Gemini adoption have strengthened Alphabet's search and AI positioning, alleviating major downside fears.
The latest data on the U.S. job market, along with a look at the finances of several top tech, media and pharmaceutical firms, are in store for investors this week.
Alphabet unit Waymo is aiming to raise about $16 billion in a financing round that would value it at nearly $110 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet's Google persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to reject a bid by consumers for more than $2 billion in penalties over the company's past collection of data from users who had switched off a key privacy setting.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday that the market's subdued finish to the week could be a good thing ahead of a busy earnings slate. AMD, Alphabet and Amazon are all set to report quarterly results.
A federal jury found former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secretes for Chinese tech companies The Department of Justice accused Ding of uploading internal materials related to Google AI technology to his personal cloud.
Google's new Project Genie prototype, which lets users simulate virtual worlds, has gaming investors very worried. But one analyst says their fears are overblown.
Big tech earnings are flowing. While the post-report results have been mixed among the various bellwether tech stocks, opportunities are abound for aggressive traders looking to capitalize on short-term swings.