Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023.
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Alphabet shares rose about 7% in extended trading on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected revenue and profit, driven by growth in its cloud-computing unit.
Earnings: $1.44 per share vs. $1.34 per share, adjusted, expected by Refinitiv.
Revenue: $74.6 billion vs. $72.82 billion expected by Refinitiv.
The company also reported the following numbers:
YouTube ads: $7.67 billion vs. $7.43 billion, according to Street Account.
Google Cloud: $8.03 billion vs. $7.87 billion, according to StreetAccount.
Traffic acquisition costs: $12.54 billion vs. $12.37 billion, according to StreetAccount.
Revenue rose 7% to $74.6 billion for the second quarter.
For the fourth straight quarter, Google’s parent company reported growth in the single digits as it reckons with a pullback in digital ad spending that reflects concerns about the economy. Analysts don’t expect growth to hit double digits again until the fourth quarter.
Along with Microsoft, Alphabet kicked off earnings season for the mega-cap tech companies. Across the industry, investors will be looking for updates on cost-cutting measures implemented earlier in the year and the impact of artificial intelligence investments on profitability.
Microsoft on Tuesday topped estimates, though the stock dipped in after-hours trading. Meta reports results on Wednesday, followed by Amazon and Apple next week.
Prior to the after-hours move, Alphabet was up 47% for the year, compared to the 19% gain in the S&P 500.
Revenue in Google’s cloud unit, which includes infrastructure and productivity apps, increased 28%. The division, which turned profitable on an operating basis in the first quarter, reported operating income in the second period of $395 million after losing $590 million a year earlier.
Google’s ad revenue rose 3.3% to $58.14 billion, up from $56.29 billion last year. YouTube ads came in above analyst expectations at $7.67 billion, up from $7.34 billion the year before. The video platform has faced heightened competition from TikTok in short-form videos.
Google’s “search and other” revenue rose to $42.63 billion, up slightly from last year.
Other Bets, which includes the Waymo self-driving car business and Verily life sciences unit, reported a 48% increase in revenue to $285 million. However, the division still lost $813 million in the period.
Separately, Alphabet said Ruth Porat, the company’s finance chief, will be leaving that role after eight years to assume the newly created position of president and chief investment officer. Porat will remain CFO “while the company searches for and selects her successor,” the press release said. Her new role will include oversight of the Other Bets portfolio.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 20, 2025.
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Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually.
CEO Safra Catz is slated to share the deal news at a company meeting Monday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The revenues are expected to start hitting in the 2028 fiscal year.
“Oracle is off to a strong start in FY26,” Catz is expected to say, according to the filing. “Our MultiCloud database revenue continues to grow at over 100%, and we signed multiple large cloud services agreements including one that is expected to contribute more than $30 billion in annual revenue starting in FY28.”
The deals revealed Monday by Catz will not affect the company’s 2026 guidance, according to the filing.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 4 that he would again postpone enforcement of a law banning TikTok unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests from the platform.
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U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview aired on Sunday that he has a group of “very wealthy people” ready to buy TikTok, whose identities he can reveal in about two weeks.
Trump added that the deal will probably need Beijing’s approval to move forward, but said “I think President Xi will probably do it,” in reference to China’s leader Xi Jinping.
The president made the off-the-cuff remarks while discussing the possibility of another pause of his “reciprocal” tariffs on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”
Tiktok’s fate in the U.S. has been in doubt since the approval of a law in 2024 that sought to ban the platform unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, divested from it. The legislation was driven by concerns that the Chinese government could manipulate content and access sensitive data from American users.
Earlier this month, Trump extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest from the platform’s U.S. business. It was his third extension since the Supreme Court upheld the TikTok law just a few days before Trump’s second presidential inauguration in January. The new deadline is Sept. 17.
TikTok went dark in the U.S. ahead of the original deadline, but was restored after Trump provided it with assurances on the extension.
Trump, who credited the app with boosting his support among young voters in the last presidential election, has maintained that he would like to see the platform stay afloat under new ownership.
However, it’s unclear if ByteDance would be willing to sell the company. Any potential divestiture is likely to require approval from the Chinese government.
A deal that would have spun off TikTok’s U.S. operations and allowed ByteDance to retain a minority position had been in the works in April, but was derailed by the announcement of Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, Reuters reported that month.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025.
About $500 million worth of sales occurred over the last month as the market notched new highs and shook off geopolitical tensions that had rattled investors, according to the report. The stock is up more than 17% this year despite concerns over curbs limiting AI chip sales overseas and 44% over the last three months.
Securities filings revealed that the tech titan recently unloaded about $15 million worth of shares as part of his more than $900 million plan announced in March to sell up to 6 million shares through the end of the year. Huang’s net worth totals about $138 billion, placing him as 11th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Last week, the chipmaking giant hit a fresh record and rallied for five straight days following the stock sales and an annual shareholder meeting, where the CEO called robotics the biggest opportunity for the company after AI. That helped the chipmaker regain its seat as the most valuable company ahead Microsoft and Apple.
The FT article cited a report from VerityData, which noted that the jump in shares above $150 prompted the stock dump.
Last year, Huang unloaded more than $700 million in Nvidia shares as part of a prearranged plan.
A Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment on the report.