Alphabet stories

Crimson Education names former New Zealand prime minister Sir John Key chair as it accelerates global expansion and ramps up AI-driven growth.

Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet eye USD $650 billion AI splurge for 2026, stirring investor unease over margins and cloud growth.

Walmart to embed shopping in Google’s Gemini app, letting users browse and buy Walmart and Sam’s Club items directly via AI chats.

Apple will build its next-generation AI foundation models on Google’s Gemini cloud, promising a more personalised Siri later this year.

Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol to link AI shopping agents, retailers and payments in a new ‘agentic commerce’ push.

Google has invested in Emergent, giving the AI start-up early access to Gemini 3 to help millions of non-coders build production software.

After a bruising 2025, falling inflation, rate cuts and small-cap strength are teeing up 2026 as the widest market rally in years.

India scraps mandatory Sanchar Saathi app on new phones, easing privacy fears over deep-access government software on Apple and Samsung devices.

Google launches Gemini 3 AI with advanced multimodal and reasoning capabilities, enhancing tasks from research to complex coding across multiple platforms.

AI-driven investments will push annual data centre IT and facility spending to USD $1 trillion by 2030, up from USD $290 billion in 2024.

US tech stocks soar, with the S&P 500 up 14.5% versus NZX’s 3.2%, urging New Zealand investors to diversify internationally for better returns.

NVIDIA and Google's Alphabet have announced a significant collaboration to enhance AI accessibility in sectors like healthcare and energy, integrating cutting-edge technologies.

In its January Monthly Markets Insights, Binance Australia reported Bitcoin's rise to the 7th largest global asset, signalling strong growth in the crypto market.

Bitcoin has shattered the USD $100,000 barrier, reaching a market capitalisation of USD $2.03 trillion and joining the ranks of the world's top assets.

Google has declared a USD $1 billion investment to boost Thailand's digital infrastructure, bolstering cloud and data centres in Bangkok and Chonburi.

New research reveals the global unified communications market will soar from USD $48.1B in 2021 to USD $187.6B by 2031, driven by digital transformation and remote work trends.

DTEX Systems bolsters its insider risk management capabilities via a new partnership with Mandiant, a Google Cloud player, aimed at enhancing cyber defences and mitigating insider threats.

Alphabet's Q2 2021 financial results show significant growth, with revenue of $61.9bn and operating income of $19.4bn. Google's advertising revenue also soared.

Companies are racing to achieve 'quantum supremacy' WHERE id = with IBM and Alphabet among those leading the charge, according to research from GlobalData.

Alphabet's latest financial results show a 19% increase in revenue, reaching almost $39 billion, driven by Google Cloud's continual growth.