Explore Business Standard
Google's latest quarterly report provided further evidence that its internet empire is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup that's turning into another potential boon for the company. The numbers released on Wednesday marked Google's third consecutive quarter of digital ad growth of more than 10 per cent from the previous year, while also posting more than 30 per cent sales growth in its division that powers data centres for AI services. Those increases during the October-December period propelled Google's corporate parent Alphabet Inc well past the earnings forecasts of stock market analysts. Alphabet's fourth-quarter profit rose 30 per cent from the prior year to USD 34.5 billion, or USD 2.82 per share, while revenue climbed 18 per cent to USD 113.8 billion. The collective momentum of Google's main business in search and advertising and the still-nascent AI field indicates a company born during the late 1990s internet boom is becoming even stronger during another ...
Google India registered a flat standalone profit of Rs 1,436.9 crore in the financial year ended March 2025 due to lower revenue and higher employee and tax expenses, according to a regulatory document shared by market intelligence firm Tofler. The company logged a profit after tax of around Rs 1,425 crore in the preceding financial year. When contacted, a Google India spokesperson said that the financial numbers of 2025 were not comparable with those of 2024. "Profit of Rs 1,425 crore for 2024 includes profit from the IT division. The IT division was demerged into a separate company (Google IT Services), so the 2025 GIPL profit numbers do not reflect IT division profit," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson further said that the net revenue for 2024 includes adjustment (addition) of Rs 229 crore, which pertains to the revenue of fiscal years 2016-17 to 2022-23 but reflected in 2024 based on the BAPA agreement signed with the Indian government. A note in the company's financial
Google India has posted a flat profit of Rs 1,436.9 crore on standalone basis in the financial year 2025 due to decline in revenue and increase in employee and tax expenses, according to a regulatory document shared by market intelligence firm Tofler. The company had posted a total profit after tax of around Rs 1,425 crore a year ago. The revenue from operations of Google India declined by 3.2 per cent to Rs 5,340 crore during the reported fiscal from Rs 5,518 crore in FY24. Total revenue of Google India, however, increased by 3.2 per cent to Rs 6,116 crore from Rs 5,921 crore on YoY basis, an account of "other income" of around Rs 776 crore. Email query sent to Google India elicited no immediate response. According to the analysis done by Tofler, net margin of Google India also declined 23.49 per cent on year-over-year (YoY) basis from 24.06 per cent. "The company's total expenses for the fiscal were reported as Rs 4,136 crore," Tofler said. The company posted 7.8 per cent incr
Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews. It's part of a set of proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority aimed at loosening the US tech giant's stranglehold on the UK's online search market. The watchdog last year labelled Google a "strategic" player in online search advertising, using new digital powers to promote more competition by forcing changes to the company's business practices. The CMA's report noted that news publishers have suffered a drop in traffic since Google rolled out its AI Overviews - summaries that appear at the top of some search queries - because fewer users are clicking through to the original articles. The watchdog said Google should give publishers "meaningful choice" over how their content is used in AI-generated responses; be more transparent about the process; and properly cite content used in AI .