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At Google’s Alphabet, ‘S’ Is For Spending Discipline

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin assure investors their plan to break up the search leader’s wide-ranging operations into smaller, more focused pieces under a new parent called Alphabet will free them up to focus on the company’s “moonshot” efforts, while others nurture the company’s core search business. But what does this radically new approach mean for Google ‘s (GOOGL) newfound spending discipline? Good things, observers say. The

Ad Blocking Surges, Threatens Ad-Supported Web

The use of ad-blocking software is exploding and is projected to cost websites nearly $22 billion in lost advertising revenue worldwide this year, according to a new study. The biggest facilitator of ad-blocking software is Google ‘s (GOOGL) Chrome browser, according to a study released Monday by PageFair and Adobe Systems (ADBE). About 198 million Internet users worldwide in the second quarter used ad-blocking software, PageFair reported. That’s

Does Alphabet End With Zebra Tech? Stock’s Run Over

Google (GOOGL) and its Alphabet restructuring may be taking a lot of the spotlight in the stock market today, but there’s also some notable news happening at the end of the alphabet, with Zebra Technologies (ZBRA). Zebra makes printers and encoders that can be used to print bar-code labels and receipts and encode RFID smart labels and cards. The company reported better-than-expected Q2 revenue, but earnings came in well below analyst expectations.