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Google parent Alphabet beats profit estimates on ad sales surge
Tue, Jul 24, 2018
The company posted adjusted earnings of $10.58 per share, excluding the impact of equity investments and European antitrust regulators` record $5 billion fine for abusing its dominance in mobile software. Google is appealing the ruling.
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Google says India anti-trust ruling could cause "irreparable" harm: document
Thu, May 17, 2018
Google last month obtained a partial stay on the ruling from India`s company law tribunal, which allowed it to deposit only a small part of the imposed penalty. The Indian antitrust tussle is the latest regulatory setback for Google. Last year, the European Commission slapped a record $2.8 billion fine on the company for demoting rival offerings. Google has appealed against the order.
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Google parent Alphabet profit leaps on ad growth
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
Google parent Alphabet reported a surge in quarterly profits, lifted by strong growth in the digital advertising segment it dominates along with Facebook. Profit in the first three months of 2018 soared more than 70 percent from a year ago to $9.4 billion, Alphabet said in an earnings report that was well above forecasts.
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Alphabet's Waymo: Won't harvest data from driverless cars
Mon, Apr 02, 2018
According to John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo which is the driverless car division of Alphabet, the company will not harvest data from its fleet of autonomous vehicles, The Telegraph reported on Monday. "Our aim is moving people around the world and that is very hard. To the core of my body, I swear on my father`s grave, it`s (harvesting data) not a priority. I`m not saying it won`t be a workstream in the future but at the moment it is not in our workspace," Krafcik said during the New York Auto Show.
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Amazon, Google cut speaker prices in market share contest: Analysts
Wed, Jan 03, 2018
Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc`s Google both discounted their virtual assistant speakers so deeply over the holiday shopping season that they likely lost a few dollars per unit, highlighting a sharply different strategy from Apple Inc as it prepares its HomePod speaker, analysts said.
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Google launches app for mobile phone users in emerging markets
Thu, Nov 30, 2017
The offering is the latest from Google`s Next Billion Users division, an internal effort to make internet services more accessible to people in countries where technology infrastructure is not as fast or affordable as in the United States or Western Europe.
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Apple accuses Qualcomm patent infringement in countersuit
Wed, Nov 29, 2017
Apple alleges that Qualcomm`s Snapdragon 800 and 820 processors, which power phones from Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Alphabet Inc`s Google`s Pixel phones, infringe on those patents. Samsung and Google are not named in Apple`s counterclaims.
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