The Latest Breaking News from Alphabet Inc

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) reported fourth quarter and full fiscal year earnings after market close Tuesday. Here are the key details for investors.

Chrome OS — the operative system developed by Google's parent company Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) — is seeking to expand its targeted market segments even further with features aiming to enable

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube is exploring adding nonfungible token features for its video creators, Bloomberg reports.  Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) began letting users post NFTs as profile photos, and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Instagram is working on a similar offering. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told creators her company was looking to web3, an umbrella term for internet…

NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) on bleak prospects of winning approval for the $40 billion chip deal, Bloomberg reports. Nvidia expressed pessimism to its partners regarding the deal's success.  SoftBank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an Arm initial public offering…

Texas, Indiana and the District of Columbia sued Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users´ privacy. "Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the…

Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) sped up its global expansion from Mexico to Japan through tie-ups with wireless carriers and highlighting its popular augmented reality features, Reuters reports. Snap remained largely unscathed by global governments and regulators and has developed a playbook for attracting users in new markets that plays up the appeal of…

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) shook up the top ranks of its security team this week with the termination of the head of security and the exit of the chief information security officer, the New York Times reports. Peiter Zatko, the head of security, is no longer at the company. Rinki Sethi, the chief…

Alphabet Inc - Class A's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) short percent of float has fallen 5.48% since last its last report. The company recently reported that it has 2.06 million shares sold short, which is 0.69% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google hired former PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) executive Arnold Goldberg to run its payments division, Bloomberg reports. The hiring is a part of Google's broader strategy to team up with a broader range of financial services, including cryptocurrencies, the report quoted Bill Ready, Google's President of commerce.  Ready, PayPal's former…