Alphabet held its quarterly earnings call today (Oct. 29) and like the past few such events the content was more about AI than it was about earnings. But then again, that’s exactly what the company is aiming for. It wants the company’s products, from Google...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership between tech giant Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. It will launch a probe Friday (Oct. 25) that aims to determine whether the deal could undermine competition...
There are few institutions worldwide capable of standing up a greater legal team than Google. But the U.S. federal government might be one of them. And on Monday (Sept. 9), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Alphabet’s lawyers will square off again, just weeks...
Alphabet’s Gmail email service, the world’s largest free email provider, was down Thursday (Aug 8). But the multi-hour disruption was merely the latest — and potentially the smallest — of a series of developments this week that have cast a shadow over Google’s operations along...
July 02, 2023
June’s over, and thus far, two quarters in, the year’s been notably strong for the CE 100 Index. All indices were in the black, again, this past week, continuing a string of positive performances. And it was the Move sector, this time around — with a sanguine outlook on travel spending — that, well, helped […]
May 15, 2023
Just a few years back, “every company” was going to be a FinTech company. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are the future-fit infrastructure integration du jour, as generative solutions enter...
April 10, 2023
Short sellers — who profit when stocks decline — held sway this past week. The CE 100 Stock Index slipped 2.2% as only one pillar gained ground in a holiday-shortened...
March 20, 2023
No surprise – this past week was all about the banking sector. Investors fled banks, worried about how bad the contagion would get in the wake of the collapses of...
November 01, 2024
Tech giants’ investments in cloud infrastructure are reportedly paying off due to the demand for artificial intelligence. The momentum of cloud businesses began to slow in early 2022 as companies completed their migration to the cloud, but it has now picked up because companies need the infrastructure for AI, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday […]
October 24, 2024
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership between tech giant Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. It will launch...
August 02, 2024
Big Tech companies’ efforts around artificial intelligence (AI) are reportedly getting a largely negative reception on Wall Street. In the days since their most recent earnings reports, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet have seen their share...
July 10, 2024
Google parent Alphabet has reportedly ended its efforts to acquire customer relationship management (CRM) company HubSpot. While Alphabet communicated its interest in a potential deal with HubSpot earlier this year, the discussions didn’t progress...
