Google's cofounder was invited to speak to startup founders during a recent Y Combinator event.

Organizations backing Google in an antitrust case brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games should not be allowed to obscure their financial ties to the Alphabet unit, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard this week.

J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said he sees room for Alphabet, Google’s parent, to gain ground on a variety of fronts, helping to lift the stock about 3% in midday trading. “We believe Alphabet’s fundamentals are solid and the company will remain both a driver of and primary beneficiary of an increasingly digital economy and advances in Generative AI,

JMP Securities cited “the risk of antitrust penalties that could significantly impact Google’s U.S. distribution of search and search revenue.”

Alphabet's Google is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer of contract workers and must bargain with their union, the agency said on Monday. The complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board last week claims that Google is a "joint employer" of about 50 San Francisco-based content creation workers employed by IT firm Accenture Flex who voted to join the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023,

In December 2024, Google announced plans to integrate Gemini AI into its extended reality (XR) platform, Android XR, via Samsung's Project Moohan XR headset. "Alphabet’s Google TV to integrate Gemini AI" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

Analyst Justin Post of Bank of America Securities maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet Class A (GOOGL – Research Report), retaining the price

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) had a solid 2024, with the stock up over 40% as of the time of writing. Furthermore, the stock is attractively priced, making Alphabet a great stock to consider heading into the new year.

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock finished the month up 12%. As you can see from the chart below, the gains came largely following the quantum computing announcement on Dec. 9. Alphabet shares jumped 5.6% on Dec. 10 and then another 5.5% on Dec. 11 following the news about Willow.

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Adobe Inc. are each donating $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining the roster of technology companies shelling out ...

CEO Jensen Huang had some thoughts to share about the state of quantum computing, a forward-thinking innovation that may eventually surpass artificial intelligence (AI) in hype. While he views quantum computers as “very useful,