{"id":4589,"date":"2022-02-01T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/google-remains-dominant-as-company-reports-quarterly-profits-of-20bn\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:38:16","slug":"google-remains-dominant-as-company-reports-quarterly-profits-of-20bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/google-remains-dominant-as-company-reports-quarterly-profits-of-20bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Google remains dominant as company reports quarterly profits of $20bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Fourth-quarter revenues of $75.3bn for parent firm Alphabet<\/li>\n<li>Big tech faces growing scrutiny over digital ad dominance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, ended 2021 on another high note, reporting better than expected results in a year when it nearly doubled profits despite growing regulatory scrutiny of its business.<\/p>\n<p>The company reported revenues of $75.3bn for the three months ending 31 December, up 32% compared to last year, and a profit of $20.6bn, comfortably beating analysts\u2019 expectations. Alphabet\u2019s shares rose close to 7% in after-hours trading.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/01\/google-alphabet-profits-revenues-earnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/840653d206d0c37ba13b659e2d0f64766b154732\/0_108_3300_1979\/master\/3300.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8ab4057f18fb1d4a467b4ec0875ddb62\" title=\"Google remains dominant as company reports quarterly profits of $20bn\" \/>Fourth-quarter revenues of $75.3bn for parent firm Alphabet<br \/>\nBig tech faces growing scrutiny over digital ad dominance<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, ended 2021 on another high note, reporting better than expected results in a year when it nearly doubled profits despite growing regulatory scrutiny of its business.<br \/>\nThe company reported revenues of $75.3bn for the three months ending 31 December, up 32% compared to last year, and a profit of $20.6bn, comfortably beating analysts\u2019 expectations. Alphabet\u2019s shares rose close to 7% in after-hours trading. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-quarter revenues of $75.3bn for parent firm Alphabet Big tech faces growing scrutiny over digital ad dominance Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, ended 2021 on another high note, reporting better than expected results in a year when it nearly doubled profits despite growing regulatory scrutiny of its business. The company reported revenues of $75.3bn for the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/google-remains-dominant-as-company-reports-quarterly-profits-of-20bn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google remains dominant as company reports quarterly profits of $20bn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4590,"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\/4589"}],"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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}