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Google has started sending out invites for its fall hardware event, which is set to take place on Thursday, October 6th, at 10AM ET
By: Stock Market News | September 6, 2022
• Google has started sending out invites for its fall hardware event, which is set to take place on Thursday, October 6th, at 10AM ET
"The event will launch the upcoming Pixel 7 phones, as well as the Pixel Watch" - The Verge $GOOGL $GOOG
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Market pulls look for it to fill down to 105 area
By: Options Mike | September 5, 2022
• $GOOGL Playing w/ it's earnings gap.
Market pulls look for it to fill down to 105 area.
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GOOG September is historically weak for tech stocks and Google is no exception
By: TrendSpider | September 3, 2022
• $GOOG September is historically weak for tech stocks and Google is no exception. So, what outperforms in Sept?
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Short Interest Update
By: MarketBeat | August 31, 2022
• Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating) was the recipient of a large growth in short interest during the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 54,020,000 shares, a growth of 13.4% from the July 31st total of 47,640,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 34,230,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days...
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GOOGL **SIZE** ~ 5.21 Million Shares at $108.94 #darkpool activity
By: Money Flow Mel | August 30, 2022
• $GOOGL **SIZE** #darkpool activity ~ 5.21 million shares at $108.94 ~ 17% of 30D Avg Vol
This one doesn't usually see the larger size -- biggest DP level we have post split.
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GOOGL $1.2 Million Call Strike: 112.5 Expiration: 10/21
By: Cheddar Flow | August 30, 2022
• $GOOGL $1.2M Call
Strike: 112.5
Expiration: 10/21
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Google Searches Show Consumers Still Getting Out and About
By: Bespoke Investment Group | August 29, 2022
More than two years ago during the summer of 2020, we used Google search trend data to build a US consumer activity index to gauge the strength of the re-opening of society after COVID lockdowns. The index is an aggregation of Google search trend activity for various terms like hotel, cruises, flights, bars, and restaurants, to name a few. When we first started looking at trends in searches for activities that get people out of the house and doing things again, we were trying to see how long it would take to get back to pre-COVID levels. As shown in the chart of the index below, it took until the summer of 2021 to get back to pre-COVID levels, but then activity receded again as we went into the fall last year as Omicron began to spread rapidly.
This summer we saw our Google Trend consumer activity index surge past 2021 highs as people have really started to go out and travel again. Recently, however, we've seen a dip in activity. As shown, this appears to be seasonal as we saw the same thing happen last year at this time. Even still, the activity index remains above the level it was at prior to the first COVID cases on US soil, so it's hard to argue that the consumer has pulled back much -- if any -- this year, even with inflation raging and some economic indicators flashing recession warnings signs.
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Earnings gap @ 108 is the next support and a huge spot
By: Options Mike | August 28, 2022
• $GOOGL That got ugly fast. Earnings gap @ 108 is the next support and a huge spot for this name.
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Contextualizing big data. $GOOGL tracks the most about its users, $TWTR and $AMZN are not far behind
By: Markets & Mayhem | August 26, 2022
• Contextualizing big data. $GOOGL tracks the most about its users, $TWTR and $AMZN are not far behind.
$AAPL, and surprisingly $META, are on the lower end of the list.
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GOOGL $1.3 Million OTM Call - Unusual Strike: 120 Expiration: 9/16
By: Cheddar Flow | August 24, 2022
• $GOOGL $1.3M OTM Call - Unusual
Strike: 120
Expiration: 9/16
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The Future Fund Has 9.25% Invested in Alphabet (GOOGL)
By: The Future Fund | August 22, 2022
• Here’s our FFND positions at the end of Friday, 8/19/2022. https://futurefundetf.com
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Alphabet This ~ $120 level continues to cause problems for Google
By: TrendSpider
| August 20, 2022
• $GOOG This ~$120 level continues to cause problems for Google.
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Google Cloud will shutter its IoT Core service next year
By: Ron Miller | August 17, 2022
Google Cloud announced this week that it’s shutting down its IoT Core service, giving customers a year to move to a partner to manage their IoT devices.
The announcement appeared at the top of the IoT Core web page this week with little fanfare. The company also sent an email to customers announcing the change.
It believes that having partners manage the process for customers is a better way to go. “Since launching IoT Core, it has become clear that our customers’ needs could be better served by our network of partners that specialize in IoT applications and services,” a Google spokesperson explained.
Google is also keenly aware of its reputation for suddenly shutting down services, and the Google Cloud spokesperson was careful to point out that they are trying to make the move as seamless as possible for customers. “We have worked extensively to provide customers with migration options and solution alternatives, and are providing a year-long runway before IoT Core is discontinued.”
That may be so, but it certainly didn't appease commenters on Hacker News, who were highly critical of the news, and questioned Google Cloud's commitment to its customers.
Competitors AWS and Microsoft offer similar services, which provide a way for customers to manage their IoT devices, while ingesting and making sense of all of the data coming in from those devices.
Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller found it intriguing that Google was shutting down this particular service after all the IoT hype we’ve been hearing in recent years. “It’s interesting. IoT was supposed to be this big driver for cloud loads for the cloud vendors,” he said.
Mueller said that the big three cloud vendors -- Amazon, Microsoft and Google -- haven't had much innovation on IoT services. “All three have been kind of standing still on their offerings, which has allowed the best-of-breed and specialized vendors to catch up. Now those specialized IoT vendors run on the big three cloud infrastructure, and they get those workloads anyway without the investment and maintenance of a software platform,” he said. But so far, only Google has announced it's deprecating its IoT core service.
Ultimately, this could have to do with the mounting losses that the company has been facing in the cloud division as it works to catch up with rivals Amazon and Microsoft. The investment seems to be working with the company reporting over $6 billion in revenue in its most recent earnings report last month, up from $4.6 billion the prior year. But the division also reported losses of $858 million, a much wider gap than the prior year's $591 million loss.
It's worth noting that the cloud infrastructure market more broadly is growing rapidly and Google could be investing heavily to get a bigger piece of that over time, while tolerating losses in the short term. Synergy Research reported last month that the market was worth almost $55 billion last quarter with Google accounting for 10% of that. That was good for third place behind Amazon with 34% and Microsoft with 21%. The market, which includes infrastructure as a service, platform as a service along with hosted private cloud services, grew 31% in Q2 2022. (Google Cloud's $6B figure includes additional services beyond the ones Synergy counts, hence the difference between Synergy's number, and what Alphabet reported for Google Cloud revenue.)
Google published a blog post last July outlining its core tenets when it comes to changing or shutting down a service. To that end, the company stated, "If a deprecation or breaking change is inevitable, then the burden is on us to make the migration as effortless as possible."
Regardless of the written policy, customers like the ones on Hacker News are feeling like they've been left in the lurch. To a large extent commenters see this as a trust issue, and Google Cloud will need to address that, especially as it tries to grow the division.
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I think it is holding pretty steady. 
Alphabet leads all public companies in crypto startup investments with $1.56 billion
By: Kitco | August 16, 2022
At a time when the majority of public-facing conversations about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies revolve around price and the latest government regulations, some of the world's largest companies are investing billions of dollars to develop future use cases.
Data published in a recent report by the blockchain intelligence firm Blockdata shows that 40 corporations invested in blockchain-related companies between September 2021 and June 2022.
Google's parent company Alphabet ranked at the top of the list in terms of the amount invested, with $1.56 billion invested in blockchain companies during the designated time period. BlackRock and Morgan Stanley rounded out the top three with $1.17 billion and $1.1 million invested, respectively.
Public companies that are most active in investing in blockchain companies. Source: Blockdata
Samsung was the most active investor during this period, investing $979 million in a total of 13 companies, followed by UOB with seven investments worth a total of $204 million. Financial giant Citigroup invested in six blockchain-related companies, while Goldman Sachs took a stake in five.
Overall, the top 40 publicly traded companies invested a total of $6 billion in 61 blockchain/crypto startups across 71 investment rounds between September 2021 and June 2022.
Notably absent from the above list is MasterCard, which was among the top three active investors based on the number of deals participated in prior to September 2021. Since that time, the company has "mainly conducted incubator and accelerator programs for four blockchain startups," according to Blockdata, along with acquiring the crypto intelligence company CipherTrace in September 2021 as a way to bolster its cybersecurity solutions.
Areas of interest for investment
There were more than 20 industries and 65 use cases represented by the blockchain startups covered in this report.
Nonfungible token (NFT) solutions were the most prominent, with a total of 19 companies from this sector represented, and many of these projects belonging to the gaming, arts & entertainment, and distributed ledger technology (DLT) fields.
Twelve of the companies are marketplaces, some of which support the buying and selling of NFTs, and 11 of the organizations provide gaming services. According to Blockdata, "There is considerable overlap among use cases for the companies that offer NFT solutions, marketplaces, and gaming."
"The popularity of NFTs can be mainly seen as an opportunistic move by corporations looking to capitalize on trends to meet where their customers are transacting. The startups raising capital are enabling commerce in decentralized worlds by developing platforms where users can buy and sell NFTs, including virtual land, clothing, and other branded items," Blockdata said.
Some of the other prominent use cases that are popular investments include blockchain services, infrastructure, development platforms, scaling solutions and custody solutions.
Custody solutions were some of the highest-grossing startups. Fireblocks signed a $550 million deal involving Alphabet, while Circle raised $550 million in an investment round with participation from BlackRock, and Anchorage Digital raised $350 million in a deal that included PayPal and BlackRock.
Samsung demonstrated the most wide-ranging investment strategy, investing in a total of 15 different use cases across some of the most popular sectors, including blockchain services, development platforms, NFT, and social networks.
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Hey catty-
No. I don't feel that way. I am actually ok with it. I think it is a great LT opportunity and because it has stayed in this tighter range, compared to AMZN - the other 20/1 split you mention - I might shift out of a few others and toss more into it while GOOGL is still hanging in this range.
Which one do you own? Googl or Goog? I have GOOGL
and compared to AMZN (Which I also Own) and their 20/1 split - I'm more disappointed in that huge gap. I don't like that.
I like this tightness of GOOGL's chart.
Alphabet Inc. $1.2 Million Call Sweep Strike: 120 Expiration: 1/20/23
By: Cheddar Flow | August 15, 2022
• $GOOG $1.2M Call Sweep
Strike: 120
Expiration: 1/20/23
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Receives Average Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from Brokerages
By: MarketBeat | August 14, 2022
• Shares of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating) have earned an average recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from the forty-one brokerages that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, thirty-one have assigned a buy recommendation and one has given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $147.36...
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Big Short's Burry Liquidates ~$200M in Long Stock Bets, Now Has Just One Stock
By: Investing.com | August 15, 2022
The recent bearish views expressed by Michael Burry, the investor made famous by the movie "The Big Short", is apparently not just lip service, according to the latest SEC filing from his Scion Asset Management. The filing, made Monday on form 13F, showed that the hedge fund completely liquidated all of the 12 positions it owned as of the end of the first quarter.
Positions the firm owned at the end of the first quarter included Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), and Cigna Corp . (NYSE:CI), among others. As of the end of the second quarter, which the new filing covers, the firm owned just one stock - The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO). This was a new position.
The value of the positions liquidated was worth about $200 million at the end of March. As of the end of June, his portfolio of long stocks was worth just over $3 million. Short positions are not required to be disclosed in 13Fs. It is unclear if Burry's firm has any current outstanding short bets.
Burry has expressed his very bearish views about the stock market on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) as of late. On August 4th, he said that the 'silliness is back' in markets, and on August 12th he cautioned about rising consumer credit.
“Net consumer credit balances are rising at record rates as consumers choose violence rather than cut back on spending in the face of inflation,” Burry tweeted at that time. “Remember the savings glut problem? No more. COVID helicopter cash taught people to spend again, and it’s addictive. Winter coming," Burry said the recent market rally is just a bear market rally and consistent with prior bear market rallies.
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Quietly breaking range 123 then 125 if it continues
By: Options Mike | August 14, 2022
• $GOOGL Quietly breaking range 123 then 125 if it continues.
Tough name.
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Google Executives Threaten Workers With Layoffs, Say 'There Will Be Blood On The Streets': Report
By: Benzinga | August 13, 2022
• Sundar Pichai shared his plans about hiring and investment slowdown through 2023.
• Senior executives in the Google cloud sales department are telling their employees to shape up.
Last month, Alphabet Inc announced a hiring freeze due to global economic uncertainty.
According to a new Business Insider report, the company doesn't seem to be rolling back the hiring freeze, and employees are jittery about the decision.
Senior executives in the Google cloud sales department are telling their employees to shape up, warning that layoffs may occur if results don't meet expectations, according to a Business Insider.
The leadership team has told them there will be an "overall examination of sales productivity and productivity in general."
Per the report, the warning says – if third-quarter results "don't look up, [then] there will be blood on the streets."
According to a CNBC report, Google has launched an effort called "Simplicity Sprint" to drive efficiency and improve employee focus amid macro uncertainties.
Last month, during an all-hands meeting, CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged that Google's productivity was nowhere close despite its headcount, reflecting a challenging macro environment with more uncertainty ahead.
He said he wanted to solicit his employees' ideas on getting "better results faster."
Recently, Pichai shared his plans about a hiring and investment slowdown through 2023, asking employees to work "with greater urgency" and "more hunger" than shown "on sunnier days."
It's not just Google that is facing the wrath of economic slowdown. Last month Meta Platform Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company plans to reduce its hiring target for engineers from 10,000 to between 6,000-7,000 amid the market downturn.
"Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here," Zuckerberg said.
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GOOG $1M+ Call Sweeps Strike: 120 Expiration: 9/16
By: Cheddar Flow | August 11, 2022
• $GOOG $1M+ Call Sweeps
Strike: 120
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