Google Parent Company Alphabet Just Proved Why Dividends Matter, Even for Growth Stocks Unlike a stodgy dividend-paying company with limited growth prospects, Alphabet is a high-margin business with an excellent balance sheet. It has plenty of avenues to expand existing cash cows like ... 05/4/2024 - 9:10 am | View Link
Billionaire fund manager bets big on Google-parent Alphabet Daniel Loeb, the 62-year-old chief executive of Third Point, represents one of his era's top hedge fund managers.Third Point, founded by Loeb in 1995, managed $11.5 billion as of March 31. He began ... 05/1/2024 - 12:33 pm | View Link
Amazon’s stock rises as cost-cutting measures and AI investment boost AWS profits “Advertising is growing and AWS has been strong,” said Amazon’s chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky on the earnings call. “A lot of that’s driven by cost controls and expanding revenue on the top ... 04/30/2024 - 1:26 pm | View Link
Analysts unveil Google parent Alphabet stock price targets after earnings JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth raised the firm's price target on Alphabet to $200 from $165 and kept an overweight rating on the shares. The company reported strong first-quarter results across the board, the ... 04/28/2024 - 5:07 am | View Link
Wall Street and Europe higher as Google owner crosses $2tn It came as US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters that US economic growth for the first quarter could be revised higher, and inflation will ease after a clutch of "peculiar" factors held the ... 04/26/2024 - 12:33 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."