Amazon tops cloud expectations on strong AI demand, shares rise - Reuters

Amazon tops cloud expectations on strong AI demand, shares rise  Reuters

Alphabet’s first-quarter profit soars as Google’s big AI bets help push stock to new highs - AP News

Alphabet’s first-quarter profit soars as Google’s big AI bets help push stock to new highs  AP News

Big US tech stocks swing as investors probe AI spend

Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft all reported their financial performance at the same time on Wednesday

Google, Microsoft Earnings to Test Strength of AI Stock Boom - Bloomberg.com

Google, Microsoft Earnings to Test Strength of AI Stock Boom  Bloomberg.com

A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.

By Karen Weise

Amazon.com Posts Double-Digit Growth Anchored by Booming Web Services - WSJ

Amazon.com Posts Double-Digit Growth Anchored by Booming Web Services  WSJ

Big Tech’s earnings get ever bigger, and ever less useful

Meta, Alphabet and peers are growing smartly, but their value hinges on hard-to-answer questions about AI supremacy

Why Alphabet won the Big Tech earnings night

Alphabet's cloud business is accelerating relative to competitors, analysts say

Why Alphabet’s stock is the standout gainer on Big Tech’s monster earnings day

Alphabet’s earnings beat and strong cloud growth are helping to justify raised spending projections.

By Christine Ji

Google's subscriptions business is booming — and AI is a big reason

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Bloomberg/Getty Images Google's subscription business saw its strongest quarter yet. YouTube and AI features tied to Google One were the biggest drivers. Subscriptions are becoming an increasingly important business for Alphabet. Google said it now has 350 million paying subscribers across its services — another boost to what is becoming an increasingly important part of the search giant's business. The company's subscriptions business grew 19% year over year in th...

Amazon Posts $181.5 Billion in Revenue and Smashes Wall Street’s Q1 Earnings Expectations

Amazon reported its latest quarterly earnings results Wednesday, revealing sales at its cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were up 28% year over year to $37.6 billion from January to March. Wall Street forecast earnings per share (EPS) of $1.65 on $177.2 billion in revenue, according to analyst consensus data provided by LSEG. Amazon reported adjusted EPS of $2.78 […]

By Jennifer Maas

YouTube’s Ad Business Hit $9.88 Billion Last Quarter

The number of paid subscribers across YouTube premium as well as Google One, Alphabet’s storage business, have hit 340 million.

By Caitlin Huston

AI Worries Have Returned to Wall Street. Now Come Earnings.

A slide in artificial-intelligence stocks comes ahead of earnings from key tech giants.

YouTube Ad Revenue Rises 11% In Q1 To Near $10B Mark As Parent Alphabet Hits 350M Paid Subscriptions

YouTube ad revenue rose 11% in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025, flirting with the $10 billion mark. The ad revenue haul of $9.883 billion was one of many solid parts of parent company Alphabet’s overall quarter. YouTube was cited by the tech giant, along with Google One, as a key […]

By Dade Hayes

Hybe posts record Q1 on BTS comeback, rookie momentum

Hybe logged its strongest first-quarter performance on record, with consolidated revenue approaching 700 billion won ($490 million) driven by BTS's full-group return and accelerating sales from newer acts including Katseye and Cortis, the K-pop powerhouse said Wednesday. Revenue for the January-March period reached 698.3 billion won, up 40 percent from 500.6 billion won a year earlier. Adjusted operating profit — which strips out a one-time, non-cash accounting charge — came in at 58.5 billion w

By The Korea Herald

Amazon tops cloud expectations on strong AI demand, shares rise

Microsoft in charts: Intelligent cloud revenue rises 30%

Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars

Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars In our preview of Amazon's earnings, we summarized sentiment as "Bullish, But Concerns Remain" with JPM noting that client "conversations were heavily AWS-skewed with investor focus on degree of acceleration and cloud $ re-capture driven by core workloads, AI, & new partnerships. Still, some concerns remain on broader AI positioning/strategy, Trainium traction, & gap to Azure/Google Cloud growth. Strong Stores...

By Tyler Durden

Lagos public servants urged to embrace tech-driven governance

Lagos State is training senior public servants to embrace tech-driven governance, enhancing leadership skills for effective and modern service delivery. Read More: https://punchng.com/lagos-public-servants-urged-to-embrace-tech-driven-governance/

By Punch Newspapers