{"id":17627,"date":"2025-02-04T23:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/google-parent-alphabets-earnings-disappoint-wall-street-amid-stiff-ai-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:37:33","slug":"google-parent-alphabets-earnings-disappoint-wall-street-amid-stiff-ai-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/google-parent-alphabets-earnings-disappoint-wall-street-amid-stiff-ai-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Google parent Alphabet\u2019s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue slowdown reflects \u2018challenging year\u2019 firm has had and 2025 may be year it loses competitive edge, say analysts<\/p>\n<p>Shares of<strong> <\/strong>Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet fell more than 6% after the company reported a slight miss in expected revenue on Tuesday. The company reported $96.5bn, compared with analyst expectations of $96.67 bn.<strong> <\/strong>The company surpassed investors\u2019 expectations of $2.13 in earnings per share, however, with $2.15 in EPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQ4 was a strong quarter driven by our leadership in AI and momentum across the business,\u201d Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai wrote in a statement. \u201cWe are building, testing, and launching products and models faster than ever, and making significant progress in compute and driving efficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/04\/google-alphabets-q4-earnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8ce75dbafe6ad12f4d6ef90ab66c092d664fa2a2\/0_137_6342_3806\/master\/6342.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=07df9a9b13c9112f698933861072530d\" title=\"Google parent Alphabet\u2019s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition\" \/>Revenue slowdown reflects \u2018challenging year\u2019 firm has had and 2025 may be year it loses competitive edge, say analysts<br \/>\nShares of Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet fell more than 6% after the company reported a slight miss in expected revenue on Tuesday. The company reported $96.5bn, compared with analyst expectations of $96.67 bn. The company surpassed investors\u2019 expectations of $2.13 in earnings per share, however, with $2.15 in EPS.<br \/>\n\u201cQ4 was a strong quarter driven by our leadership in AI and momentum across the business,\u201d Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai wrote in a statement. \u201cWe are building, testing, and launching products and models faster than ever, and making significant progress in compute and driving efficiencies.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue slowdown reflects \u2018challenging year\u2019 firm has had and 2025 may be year it loses competitive edge, say analysts Shares of Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet fell more than 6% after the company reported a slight miss in expected revenue on Tuesday. The company reported $96.5bn, compared with analyst expectations of $96.67 bn. The company surpassed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/google-parent-alphabets-earnings-disappoint-wall-street-amid-stiff-ai-competition\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google parent Alphabet\u2019s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}