The danger for Google isn’t that it loses market share in search, but rather that search becomes subsumed within the broader category of AI. Just ask Microsoft about Windows PCs.

Investment management company Vulcan Value Partners recently released its fourth-quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In 2024, the US economy was stronger than expected;

Shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG), known for its Google subsidiary, are up an impressive 34% in the past year and currently trading just a few points from their all-time high. Despite facing heightened regulatory scrutiny and questions about whether its core search business is losing its relevancy in the age of artificial intelligence (AI),

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will buy carbon-removal credits based on projects using biochar that’s made by heating organic waste, one of the biggest such deals to date.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet ( GOOG -1.14%) ( GOOGL -0.98%) surged 35.5% in 2024, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . Alphabet entered 2024 under a cloud of skepticism regarding its competitiveness in the artificial intelligence (AI) races and amid pressure from antitrust authorities.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is attending Donald Trump's inauguration, a source familiar with the matter tells BI. He joins a list of Big Tech leaders.

A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google 8 billion roubles ($77.9 million) on Tuesday for not complying with previous penalty orders, the Moscow courts press service said on Telegram.

A D.C. federal judge appeared reluctant Friday to let Apple Inc. intervene in a US monopoly case against Alphabet Inc’s Google to defend its billion-dollar deals with the online search giant.

Wall Street anticipates Alphabet's Google to continue its innovation streak in 2025, with key growth drivers including generative AI and autonomous driving. JPMorgan analyst reiterates Overweight rating and sets $232 price target for both GOOG and GOOGL shares.

In December 2024, Google announced plans to integrate Gemini AI into its extended reality (XR) platform, Android XR, via Samsung's Project Moohan XR headset. "Alphabet’s Google TV to integrate Gemini AI" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock finished the month up 12%. As you can see from the chart below, the gains came largely following the quantum computing announcement on Dec. 9. Alphabet shares jumped 5.6% on Dec. 10 and then another 5.5% on Dec. 11 following the news about Willow.

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., but that may not be permanent. U.S. TikTok users lost access to the app late Saturday, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a bipartisan law that banned TikTok nationwide, provided it was still controlled by its Chinese parent company.