Tag: Alphabet

October 25, 2023

Stocks have moved sharply lower over the course of the trading session on Wednesday, more than offsetting the gains posted in the previous session. With the downward move, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 have fallen to their lowest levels […]

April 28, 2022

The tech-heavy Nasdaq index, which is frequently used as a benchmark for the tech sector, has crashed into a bear market. The index has fallen 22% from its record high close last November. However, as my colleague Max King points […]

September 26, 2018

The major changes to the U.S. tech and telecom indexes that you’ve been hearing a lot about reflect the ceaseless merging of telecoms, technology and media companies. But what you may not realize is that these index changes are not […]

February 15, 2018

Shares of Amazon rose 2.57% Wednesday, sending its market value higher than Microsoft for the first time. The e-commerce behemoth is now the third-largest company in the US, behind only Apple ($849.24 billion) and Google parent Alphabet ($744.73 billion), according […]

February 5, 2018

Google isn’t just a search engine anymore. In fact, the company is now so diversified and eclectic that it renamed itself Alphabet, and almost has too many divisions to keep track of. If Google, and its parent Alphabet, would provide […]

October 6, 2017

Investors are missing out on billions of dollars thanks in part to some large-cap tech stocks. If Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook (along with Berkshire Hathaway) paid shareholder dividends at the 2.37 percent average yield of other S&P 500 companies that […]

June 27, 2017

Alphabet and Avis Budget will work together on self-driving cars, the companies announced on Monday. Alphabet’s self-driving car company, Waymo, will rely on Avis to service and store its fleet of Chrysler self-driving vans, the companies said in a statement. […]

November 18, 2016

Alphabet’s Google faces a tougher regulatory landscape as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration looks poised to reverse Obama administration policies that often favored the internet giant in the company’s battles with telecoms and cable heavyweights, analysts say. Google GOOGL […]

December 14, 2015

Two portfolio managers were split on whether investors should be putting their money into FANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google (which now trades as Alphabet). Although the stocks have fallen this week, David Sowerby, portfolio manager at Loomis […]

October 30, 2015

Source photo Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +0.56% GOOGL, +1.08% Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system for personal computers into its Android mobile-operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing. […]

October 26, 2015

Source photo European Union regulators will actively pursue Google parent Alphabet Inc. on multiple fronts ranging from its contracts with advertisers to its Android mobile-operating system, the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said, in the clearest sign yet that the […]