This shows that the business is doing very well. The total turnover of Alphabet rose almost 18 percent to 21.3 billion dollars (over 19.5 billion) compared with a year earlier. Net income was $ 4.9 billion (nearly 4.5 billion euros).
At Google, by far the most important part of Alphabet, revenues from advertising increased by nearly 17 percent. Google under attack as the main search engine, the advertentietak, Android, Chrome and other consumer products.
The good results drive the share prices of the Internet giant to record levels. Therefore, the total value of Alphabet is now several billion above the roughly $ 535 billion, Apple is worth. That makes Alphabet according to TechCrunch at least for a moment the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.
Moon Shots
Alphabet divisional figures for the first time in numbers for Google and figures for ‘other bets, or things which are defined sometimes as “moon shots.
So objectives include the development of the autonomous car, the wifi balloon and investigating live forever under the moon shots of Alphabet. Google released previously never quite exactly what those activities cost.
A lot, it turns out. It is still not specifically address what several moon shots cost, but all ‘other bets together in 2015 cost the company $ 3.57 billion (euro 3.27 billion). Which earned dollars 448 million (411 million euros) in turnover, although a significant increase over the 327 million dollars (300 million euros) in revenues in 2014, but not nearly enough to cover the losses.
Users
The Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, went on to say that seven Google services, including Chrome, YouTube, Gmail and search, more than a billion active users. Gmail was the seventh and last service that broke through that line, which happened last quarter.
Also there is a lot more to Youtube watched in living rooms, according to Pichai. The time spent users watching YouTube videos in the living room, doubled in 2015. In addition, paid video service, which is also widely used to listen music, more than three billion dollars in royalties to music companies.
Alphabet
Google announced in August last year as a bolt from the blue is known to split itself into a new conglomerate. This conglomerate was named Alphabet and had to ensure that the individual projects from Google that had little to do with the main features of the company, would get more space
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