{
  "id": 16961739,
  "title": "Internet-Riese: Google-Mutter Alphabet verfehlt Umsatzerwartungen",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/internet-riese-google-mutter-alphabet-verfehlt-umsatzerwartungen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-28T20:50:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/internet-riese-google-mutter-alphabet-verfehlt-umsatzerwartungen/100265714.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Mountain View - In the previous quarter, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, fell short of Wall Street's earnings expectations, resulting in a nine percent drop in the company's stock during the post-market trading. Despite the decline, the company reported a 25 percent year-over-year increase in revenue to $127.6 billion. The earnings, however, fell by nearly a quarter to $26.2 billion.\n\nAlphabet's profit trajectory is now heavily reliant on the fluctuating valuations of investments, such as those in the space company SpaceX. Advertising revenue from Google's search, a key revenue source for the conglomerate, grew by 12 percent year-over-year to $63.35 billion, below analysts' expectations of around $65 billion. The revenue from cloud services, traditionally closely watched by the stock market, nearly doubled at $30.7 billion.\n\nLike other tech giants, Alphabet is heavily investing billions in the expansion of infrastructure for artificial intelligence. In the previous quarter, capital investments rose to nearly $51 billion, up from just $45 billion in the previous three months.",
  "summary": "Das Geschäft von Google wächst weiter - aber nicht mehr so schnell wie noch kürzlich. Anleger sind alarmiert und schicken die Aktie auf Talfahrt.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}