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Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Alphabet is the world's third-largest technology company by revenue, after Amazon and Apple, the largest technology company by profit, and one of the world's most valuable companies. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent holding company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Alphabet is listed on the large-cap section of the Nasdaq under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG; both classes of stock are components of major stock market indices such as the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100. The company is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Wikipedia
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Symbol: NASDAQ: GOOGL
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- Mar 12: The Moonshot Podcast launched this week at an event at SXSW. The show focuses on Google X, the innovation lab within Google owners Alphabet, and some of the ideas it's spawned - self driving cars, wearables, robots, computer systems that code themselves, Internet balloons, laser internet, wildfire prediction, and so much more. It's hosted by Google X's Astro Teller, who is Captain of Moonshots for the company.
- Feb 6: Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, released its Q4/24 results. The CEO Sundar Pichai said: “YouTube continues to be the leader in streaming watchtime and podcasts” - which many say is the first time podcasts have been mentioned in Google’s financial results. YouTube ads grew 13% to $10.4bn for the quarter (which included the US election).
- Mar 4, 2024: YouTube Music has fired around 50 staff looking to unionize, at the exact moment when they were in a meeting with Austin City Council asking for their help. Google deny they were fired, saying that they were contractors and the contract had ended - and that they need to negotiate with their employer. The National Labor Relations Board has said twice that the workers are jointly employed by both the contractor Cognizant and Google. The Alphabet Workers Union says Google’s action is illegal.
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