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Alphabet revenues decelerate and the securities sink to Wall Street, the place it involves lose over 7%. The holding holder who heads Google closes the fourth quarter with revenues for 96.5 billion, a rise of 12% in comparison with the identical interval of the earlier 12 months. However, development has been the bottom since 2023.

To disappoint is the Cloud division, which recorded revenues from 30.1% to 12 billion, in decisive slowdown in comparison with the earlier quarter. Analysts wished a greater efficiency for the cloud, capable of stability the braking of development in promoting assortment, the place Google is slowing down with the advance of Tiktok and Amazon. Mountain View has additionally introduced that the capital expenditure in 2025 might be 75 billion {dollars}, properly past the expectations of analysts.

For Google, the disappointing outcomes are added to the antitrust investigation launched towards him by China in retaliation to the duties imposed by Donald Trump. In the United States, alternatively, Google is getting ready to defend himself from the Spezzatino proposal of his actions put ahead by Joe Biden’s Justice Department to interrupt his monopoly in on-line analysis.

If Google falls to Wall Street following a disappointing quarterly, Snap runs as an alternative. The firm to which the Snapchat app is headed advances decisive within the Aphter Hours programs, the place it involves earn 9.05%. Snap closed the fourth quarter with revenues from 14% to 1.56 billion, above the expectations of analysts and a revenue of 9.1 million, in decisive enchancment in comparison with the lack of 248 million in the identical interval final 12 months. For the primary three months of the 12 months, Snap consists of revenues between 1,332 and 1.36 billion, above the expectations of Wall Street.