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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Alphabet Revenue Surges

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Intel plans to cut management roles as its losses widen. And Huawei lobbyists are locked out of the European Commission. Katie Deighton hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash UK slash AI for people. Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Thursday, April 24th. I'm Katie

0:36.1

Dayton for the Wall Street Journal. Google Parent Alphabet

0:39.4

today posted quarterly revenue and profit that exceeded endless expectations. Despite facing new

0:45.3

tough competition from artificial intelligence upstarts, the company's search and advertising

0:50.0

unit saw strong growth, with revenue increasing 12% from a year ago to more than $90 billion.

0:56.9

The company also said it now counts 270 million paid subscriptions, driven by YouTube and Google

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1, its cloud storage service. Shares rose more than 3% in early after-hours trading.

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Intel, however, didn't fare so well. The chipmaker's shares fell more than 5% in early after-hours trading. Intel, however, didn't fare so well. The chipmaker's shares

1:13.5

fell more than 5% after hours, after the company posted wider quarterly losses of $821 million.

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Intel said it would increase its focus on engineering new products and streamline its business

1:26.4

by cutting management positions.

1:29.3

And the European Commission has banned officials from meeting with lobbyists for Huawei

1:33.8

technologies after Belgian authorities began investigating the company and its staff over corruption

1:39.5

allegations. The European Parliament had previously banned Huawei staff from its premises, with the Commission following suit last month.

1:47.5

Huawei didn't respond to a request for comment, but last month said that it has a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption.

1:54.4

For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Friday's Tech News Briefing podcast.

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