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Alphabet's growth opportunities look like an embarrassment of riches.

More than a year after announcing plans to phase it out, Google is finally moving ahead with a major change that will affect millions of consumers. The familiar tool has been part of people's daily routines for years, helping with everything from simple questions and reminders to controlling ...

Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO Greg Abel spent a significant chunk of the company's massive pile of cash as it invested $10 billion in Google's parent company and repurchased about $4.5 billion of its shares. The conglomerate that legendary investor Warren Buffett built reported its second-quarter earnings Saturday morning and disclosed that its cash holdings had shrunk to $365.5 billion from nearly $400 billion at the end of March. Berkshire's report suggested that it had added more than $24 billion worth of commercial, industrial and other stocks to its portfolio, but the earnings report doesn't name the stocks it bought.

The conglomerate struck a $6.8 billion deal, repurchased Berkshire shares and was a net buyer of other stocks, while more than doubling quarterly profits

SanDisk’s groundbreaking High Bandwidth Flash technology could redefine AI memory infrastructure. Should you hop in to buy SNDK now?

Investing.com - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. drew down its record cash pile to $364.7 billion in the second quarter as Chief Executive Officer Greg Abel ramped up stock repurchases to $4.53 billion and oversaw a doubling in net profit. Moving aggressively into the equity market, Berkshire became a net buyer of stocks for the first time in 15 quarters, deploying billions into top holdings such as Alphabet Inc.. Simultaneously, the conglomerate repurchased $4.53 billion of its own shares in the three m

Alphabet's quarter was boosted by huge SpaceX gains.

Compensation consultant Johnson Associates dubs it “The Year of the Bank” in a recent report, with year-end incentive pools 5% to 20% higher than 2025 at major investment and commercial banks. “Everything is shaping up to be a fantastic year for the banks,” says the firm’s managing director Chris Connors. Record earnings driven by equity trading, underwriting, and advisory are fueling the bountiful year-over-year increases in bank bonuses.

Rather than simply clearing reduced consensus hurdles, reporting companies are offering encouraging reads on order trends, margin resilience, and full-year demand. This fundamental health is driving a steady stream of upward revisions for Q3 and future quarters.

Investor Gary Black of The Future Fund LLC has backed ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. as his pick to lead the autonomous ride-hailing market ahead of the likes of Alphabet Inc.‘s Waymo and Elon Musk‘s Tesla Inc.. Gary Black Says...

The cloud infrastructure giant still has a bright future.

On August 7, Google Cloud switched on Google Security Operations in its new Taiwan Region, giving local banks, hospitals and chipmakers an AI-powered defense platform they can run without sending sensitive data offshore. It’s a small announcement next to Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) roughly $4.6 trillion market value, but it captures why investors are paying attention. Alphabet […]

After a sharp pullback, Meta Platforms is testing a price floor that has held strong on seven prior occasions. The business arriving this time is different, setting up a classic standoff between history and today's reality.

Firefox developer Mozilla is warning that it could be forced to "exit the browser and browser engine markets" if it can no longer receive payment from Google for distributing its search engine.

Aug 7 (Reuters) - A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, to make major changes to its platforms and pay the largest sum yet in a growing wave of U. litigation over claims that social media harms young people.

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Beyond GPUs, AI's next winners may emerge across networking, software and quantum as investment broadens and governments boost next-gen computing.

In a “shrinkflation” world, investors might want to stop and appreciate the stock market, which is giving them more for less. While the is up 22% in the past year, valuations have actually come down, with the forward price/earnings ratio falling from 22.1 times forward earnings to 20 times, per Bloomberg data. Simply put, the “E” is rising faster than the “P.” Second-quarter earnings season has been one for the ages, with 86% of companies beating earnings estimates, above the average of 78%, and S&P 500 companies growing earnings by a startling 50.4% from one year ago, per FactSet.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s shares are up by 80% over the past year and by 12.3% year-to-date. Cramer has turned increasingly positive on the firm over the past couple of months. Most of his praise has focused on Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s cloud computing business and its AI platform. The shares dipped after the firm reported its […]

Alphabet (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) announces a US$25b bond offering to fund AI expansion following its first recorded period of negative free cash flow. The debt deal marks a shift in Alphabet's capital structure as it leans on bond markets to support large scale AI infrastructure investment. The move comes while Google DeepMind faces executive turnover, leadership reshuffles and delays in certain AI model releases. Investors are weighing the larger balance sheet commitment to AI against execution...

The live commerce platform's valuation has nearly doubled since its $11.5 billion Series F round last October

Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, and Alphabet together account for $222.3 billion of the conglomerate's holdings

The Trump administration’s contradictory AI policies undermine its goal to beat China in the AI race, Sam Bresnick writes.

Google and Meta both reported blowout Q2 revenue growth, yet only one of them left investors rattled and sitting on a year of losses. The divergence between their AI bets reveals a fundamental split in how Big Tech survives the spending era.

Berkshire Hathaway's mountain of cash and Treasury bills hit a record amount just above this level at the end of March. This Saturday morning, when Berkshire reports earnings, I'll be watching where that number goes next—and where the company is putting its cash to work. Berkshire CEO Greg Abel inked two megadeals in the past few months that might have made a small dent in the cash pile—a $6.8 billion purchase of the home builder Taylor Morrison Home and a $10 billion investment in Alphabet shares.

Lyft (LYFT) posted a "solid" Q2 as rides and gross bookings grew across its US rideshare, Freenow an

Microsoft remains free-cash-flow positive.

Apple has surged nearly 50% in a year and just posted its ninth straight earnings beat, so the $400 question is back on the table. Our model has a clear answer, and it might surprise the bulls.

The tech sector is chock-full of companies with high-quality earnings growth.

The offering follows Alphabet's first-ever negative free cash flow and a second capex hike