Google's cofounder was invited to speak to startup founders during a recent Y Combinator event.

Organizations backing Google in an antitrust case brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games should not be allowed to obscure their financial ties to the Alphabet unit, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard this week.

Google, the Mountain View-based search and digital advertising giant, is facing increasing scrutiny as the government has recommended it be broken up and its lucrative search index opened to rivals.

JMP Securities cited “the risk of antitrust penalties that could significantly impact Google’s U.S. distribution of search and search revenue.”

Analyst Justin Post of Bank of America Securities maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet Class A (GOOGL – Research Report), retaining the price

In December 2024, Google announced plans to integrate Gemini AI into its extended reality (XR) platform, Android XR, via Samsung's Project Moohan XR headset. "Alphabet’s Google TV to integrate Gemini AI" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock finished the month up 12%. As you can see from the chart below, the gains came largely following the quantum computing announcement on Dec. 9. Alphabet shares jumped 5.6% on Dec. 10 and then another 5.5% on Dec. 11 following the news about Willow.

Google is donating $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, joining Meta and other tech giants

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) had a solid 2024, with the stock up over 40% as of the time of writing. Furthermore, the stock is attractively priced, making Alphabet a great stock to consider heading into the new year.

Google stock posted a big gain in 2024 but AI-driven competition in the internet search business and DoJ antitrust cases still loom.

Alphabet's Google is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer of contract workers and must bargain with their union, the agency said on Monday. The complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board last week claims that Google is a "joint employer" of about 50 San Francisco-based content creation workers employed by IT firm Accenture Flex who voted to join the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023,