Welcome to the TechMeBrand Home for Friday, April 25th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Alphabet earnings, Intel earnings. Apple is making moves to make sure all iPhones heading to the U.S. are no longer manufactured in China.

Zuck seems bound and determined to revive his original baby, sexy-looking new Motorola

razor phones, and of course the weekend long-read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Ah, tech earnings are back.

Alphabet reported Q1 revenue up 12% year-on-year, net income up 46%, services

revenue up 10% to $77.3 billion, and other bets revenue down 9% to just 450 million.

Google Cloud Q1 revenue was up 28% year-on-year to 12.26 billion, and they said AI Overviews now has 1.5 billion users per month,

up from 1 billion back in October. Quoting CNBC, Alphabet made its largest acquisition ever in

March when it agreed to buy Wiz for $32 billion in cash, almost $10 billion more than it offered

for the startup in 2024,

and said it expects the deal to close next year, subject to regulatory approvals.

With the acquisition, Google will seek to bolster its cloud division's security offerings.

We think this will help spur more multi-cloud computing, something our customers want,

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said about the acquisition on a call with analysts Thursday.

The company said its other bets segment, which includes its self-driving car unit Waymo and

Life Sciences Unit Verily, brought in 450 million, down 9% from 495 million a year earlier.

The unit lost $1.23 billion up from $1.02 billion the year prior, end quote.

Alphabet says it surpassed 270 million paid subscribers, driven largely by YouTube and Google One,

and reported YouTube Q1 ad revenue was up 10.3% year-on-year to 8.93 billion, quoting variety. YouTube, which turned 20

this year, released new stats as part of marking its launch in 2005, including touting more than

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