Google just dodged the biggest bullet it has faced in years, and now the stock is popping off. The DOJ wanted to chop the company into little pieces of Chrome, Search, Cloud, Android, etc. but Judge Mehta just gave them a small slap on the wrist instead. The end result? Google still gets to funnel billions into Apple to remain as the iPhone's default search engine, which means the money printing machine keeps on printing. Challengers OpenAI and Perplexity are still in the running, but with Google's product lineup still fully intact, they still have plenty of time to figure out how the fuck to make money from Gemini.
RIP bears and any hope of anti-trust.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/alphabet-po...
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about GOOG
Alphabet is a multinational conglomerate that creates a vast array of products and services primarily through its Google subsidiary, including search, advertising, Android, YouTube, and cloud computing, while also developing innovative technologies in areas like autonomous driving (Waymo) and life sciences (Verily) through its "Other Bets" segments. GOOG represents Class C shares which do not have any voting rights.
| type | open | high | low |
market cap |
volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stock | $230.16 | $232.77 | $226.76 | $2.79T | 32.20M |
| eps |
price to earnings |
price to sales |
operating margin |
profit margin |
yield |
| +$2.33 | 25.42 | 29.36 | 32.43% | 29.24% | 0.36% |
Nothing screams "free market" like allowing Google to ensure nobody figures out how to change their default search engine...
As part of a company wide focus on efficiency, Google has reduced the number of managers overseeing small teams by 35% to decrease bureaucracy.
I mean, if you can cut 35% of your managers without repercussion, wtf were they doing day to day in the first place?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-exec...