Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, April 23rd, 2018.

Today, Alphabet's Q1 earnings, Amazon's working on a domestic robot.

Alexander Kogan says he worked more closely with Facebook than has been reported, spies, like us, fear digital

tracking, and the state of the music industry.

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

Literally minutes ago, Google's parent company alphabet released their quarter one earnings numbers.

Quarter one revenue came in at 31.15 billion versus the 30.29 billion estimate.

This represents revenue growth of 26% year over year.

Earnings per share came in at $13.33

versus a $9.32 consensus, so that sounds like a huge beat, but in early analysis that appears

to be due to alphabet's stake in Uber.

Because of an accounting change, Alphabet is reporting the value of its Uber investment for the first time, and it appears that value is around $3 billion.

Earnings per share taking out the Uber stake appears to be $9.93 per share versus $9.28 per share

expected by consensus estimates. Some other nuggets from the press release

overall Google's non-ad revenue, Hardware Cloud and

App Store included, increased from 3.2 billion to 4.4 billion year over year. Alphabet also says that the Google Unit spent 7.6 billion on Cap X in the quarter.

Last year in the same quarter that number was 2.4 billion so that's quite an increase.

Revenues from the other bets category was 150 million up from 132 million last

year.

Immediately after the announcement,

alphabet shares jumped around 3%, but at the time of this recording,

4.30 PM Eastern time, investor response was more muted and Google shares were

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