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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, February 4th. I'm Pierre Bien-Ame for the Wall Street Journal.

Google recorded a slowdown in revenue growth in its most recent quarter. Its parent company, Alphabet,

reported 96.5 billion dollars of revenue for the three months ending December. That's an increase of

12% from the same period a year earlier, but Alphabet hasn't reported a growth rate that low since 2023.

Shares in Alphabet were down roughly 7% in After Hours trading, pairing much of this year's

gains of about 8%.

Google's cloud computing division underperformed Wall Street analysts' expectations.

Executives have been hoping it can help make up for slowing growth in Google's

core advertising business. Alongside a money-making fourth quarter, Spotify reported its first

ever full year of profitability. Net income was equivalent to about $1.18 billion in 2024,

compared to the loss of roughly $552 million the previous year.

The Swedish company was fueled by record user growth and austerity measures after years of heavy spending on growth initiatives such as podcasts.

Shares in the company rose just over 13.2% and are up about 35% on the year.

Meanwhile, music publishers are asking Spotify to remove thousands of unlicensed songs from

podcasts on its platform. The National Music Publishers Association, a trade group, said today it sent

notice of more than 2,500 instances of infringement to the streaming service, alleging that songs

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