Z is the last letter in the English alphabet.
Ｚ是英语字母表上最后一个字母。
The first letter in the English Alphabet is A.
英语字母表中的第一个字母是A。
the International Phonetic Alphabet
国际音标
Last week, Microsoft announced that it was laying off 10,000 people, and Google's parent company Alphabet said it would cut 12,000 jobs.
上周，微软宣布裁员1万人，谷歌母公司Alphabet表示将裁员1.2万人。
Microsoft, valued at $2.1 trillion, came in second place, followed by the $1.8-trillion e-retailer Amazon and Google's parent company Alphabet, which had a market value of $1.7 trillion.
Alphabet and Facebook took the fourth and fifth spots, with 11.21 trillion yuan and 6.26 trillion yuan in value, respectively.
Alphabet Inc, Google's parent company, on Tuesday reported its second-quarter revenue at $61.88 billion, up 62 percent from the same period last year.
Google's parent Alphabet was said to be in talks with ByteDance as a minority investor, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Wednesday that the company had no plans to buy TikTok.
Other tech giants as Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet also reached 1 trillion market cap.
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will replace Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, extending a long retreat from public roles and active management by Page and Sergey Brin at the company they co-founded 21 years ago.
Streamlining management could help Alphabet better respond to the challenges and focus on growing profits, investors said.
"This signals a shift away from the more fringy efforts – like Project Loon – and more towards a company focused on technology that makes money," said Kim Caughey Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, referring to Alphabet's internet-by-balloons business.
Alphabet, which owns more than a dozen companies including self-driving car technology business Waymo and health care software company Verily, emerged in 2015 as part of a restructuring of Google.
He left Alphabet's biggest and most profitable unit, Google, to the similarly soft-spoken Pichai, who heavily delegates to direct reports to manage various product lines.
Brin had stayed on as Alphabet's president, spending some time on robotics and other research projects.
Meanwhile, Page's oversight job has largely fallen to Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat for the startup businesses and Alphabet Chief Legal Officer David Drummond for the company's two big investment funds.
Page and Brin will remain directors, but will cede their CEO and president titles, respectively, immediately, Alphabet said.
Page's voice has been impaired for years because of a chronic condition, but his health did not play a role in the decision to step aside, Alphabet said.
"With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it's the natural time to simplify our management structure," the co-founders said.
"We are deeply committed to Google and Alphabet for the long term.
As of April, Page held 26.1 percent of Alphabet's total voting power, Brin 25.25 percent and Pichai less than 1 percent.
Alphabet shares rose 0.64 percent following the after-hours announcement to $1,303.
It contended that publicly reported financial results were in line with what Page reviewed as Alphabet CEO.
Alphabet declined to comment on whether public financial reporting would change with Pichai assuming both CEO positions.
I asked several Western friends and they agreed these names are generally difficult to pronounce in countries that use the Latin alphabet.
Alphabet Inc-owned Google will buy wearable device maker Fitbit Inc for $2.1 billion, as the search giant looks to enter the fast-growing market for fitness trackers and smartwatches.
Facebook's (FB) Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's (GOOGLE) Larry Page remain on the list despite widespread criticism for their market dominance and handling of user data, mainly because growth at their companies is still explosive, according to Barron's.
In 2018, Huawei spent $15.3 billion on technology R&D, ranking in fourth place following Samsung, Google's parent Alphabet and Amazon.
Data also showed the company took 14 percent of its annual sales on research last year, the second-highest after Alphabet.
Ries pointed out that one critical barrier for Chinese companies to make a genuine global takeoff is their names, which are generally difficult to pronounce in countries that use the Latin alphabet.
"Today about 2.7 billion people, or 36 percent of the world's population, use the Latin alphabet.
But most Chinese companies use pinyin, or the official system for translating Chinese words into the Latin alphabet.
Shares of Apple and Alphabet both fell over 3 percent.
com Inc, Alphabet Inc and Microsoft in the rapidly growing cloud business.
The third-quarter results were the second time running that billionaire Jeff Bezos' firm had fallen short of sales targets and, allied to a similar disappointment from Google-owner Alphabet, they sent a shockwave through stock markets.
Shares in Alphabet dropped about 2 percent after it fell short on sales after beating estimates for the past eight quarters.
Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft all continued growth in cloud services but with signs of deceleration.
Google's parent company Alphabet Monday announced a remarkable second quarter earnings of $32.7 billion that beat market expectations in Wall Street, which pushed its shares to an all time-high with a growth of 5 percent in the after-hours trading.
Alphabet's market cap has increased to about $875 billion, which brought the tech giant one step closer to a $1 trillion company.
"We delivered another quarter of very strong performance, with revenues of $32.7 billion, up 26 percent versus the second quarter of 2017 and 23 percent on a constant currency basis," Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet and Google, said of the financial results of the quarter ended on June 30, 2018.
Alphabet's profits from its cloud business and hardware sales, plus other revenues, increased 36.5 percent year-on-year to hit $4.4 billion.
Including a massive $5.1 billion fine slapped on the firm by the EU that it has vowed to appeal, Alphabet's earnings per share stood at $4.54.
Alphabet's capital expenditures jumped to $5.5 billion, almost two times more than the figure of $2.8 billion last year.
Google’s parent, Alphabet, must change its business practices in 90 days or face further penalties, of up to 5 percent of its average daily turnover.
The top-ranked company is US-based Alphabet Inc, parent of Google.
"AT&T in a six-week trial argued that the purchase of Time Warner would allow it to gain information about viewers needed to target digital advertising, much like Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google already do.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos with $133 billion topped the list, followed by Larry Page, the CEO of Google's parent, Alphabet, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
Amazon's Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, Alphabet's Google Cloud platforms and Alibaba are together forecast to make up about 89 percent of the global cloud market share in 2019, Heather Bellini, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a research note.
This came after the Shenzhen-based company beat rival Alibaba Group to break through the $500 billion (425.4 billion euros; ￡377.1 billion) market capitalization barrier on Nov 20 - the first to do so on the Chinese mainland and across Asia, rubbing shoulders with industry titans Apple, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.
The number of Global 500 companies was 10 in the San Francisco Bay Area, with Apple and Alphabet as leading companies.
American retail giant Amazon, phone manufacturer Apple Inc, tech firms Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook made the top 15.
With 16.71 billion euros in R&D, Huawei won third place in the ranking, following Alphabet and Microsoft.
Chen's mother Qin Liu, in her late 30s, an engineer with a Beijing-based internet company, said her son is still learning the English alphabet at the kindergarten, but can assemble Lego-like kits into a beetle, a cat and a frog in a jiffy.
Apple has so far held back from any big moves in AI and even avoided mentioning the buzzword at its developer conference in June - in stark contrast to other tech giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft which have made bold moves to incorporate the breakthrough technology.
Shares of Microsoft, Nvidia and Alphabet dropped more than 1 percent after the report.
The new investment plan is part of a broader push by Microsoft, which already put $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 and invested an undisclosed amount again in 2021, to compete with Alphabet Inc, Amazon.
The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Tuesday over allegations that the company abused its dominance of the digital advertising business, according to a court document.
US tech giants, including Google's owner Alphabet and Apple, are drawing increasing attention from competition regulators in Brussels, London and elsewhere.
Earlier this year, Geely Auto's electric brand Zeekr partnered with Waymo to develop an electric vehicle model for the Alphabet subsidiary's robotaxi fleet in the United States.
Zeekr has partnered with Waymo to develop an electric vehicle model for the Alphabet subsidiary's robotaxi fleet in the United States.
Zeekr's partnership with Mobileye came one week after its deal with Waymo to develop an electric vehicle model for the Alphabet subsidiary's robotaxi fleet in the United States.
Chinese conglomerate Geely Holding Group said on Wednesday that its premium electric vehicle brand, Zeekr, has partnered with Waymo to develop an electric vehicle model for the Alphabet subsidiary's robotaxi fleet in the United States.
Alphabet Inc's Waymo risks losing its lead in the US race to prove robotaxis are a viable business as it sticks to a limited service and rivals backed by automakers near their own launches.
Some analysts viewed the resignations this year of former CEO John Krafcik and other executives as a sign of Alphabet management's disappointment in the slow progress, a charge Waymo denies.
Waymo, a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc, is hoping to eventually expand the service into California, where it already has a permit to run without human backups.
Lynk & Co is also the first Chinese carmaker to partner with Waymo, as part of the deal Volvo struck with Alphabet's autonomous driving unit in June.
Volvo Car Group, owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is partnering with Alphabet's autonomous driving unit Waymo to develop highly automated electric robotaxis for the Swedish carmaker as well as its affiliate Polestar and Chinese joint venture Lynk& Co.
ai, a relationship with Toyota is a vote of confidence as it seeks to take on US rivals such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Uber.
"Waymo is a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc. Krafcik said that the company's cars have traveled 8 million miles on public roads, which is roughly 25,000 miles every day.
GM Cruise and Alphabet Inc's Waymo are often described as leading the pack of technology and auto companies competing to create self-driving cars and integrate them into ride services fleets.
Alphabet, which plans to launch a robo-taxi service later this year, underscored its own ambitions on Thursday, announcing a deal to buy up to 62,000 minivans from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for its self-driving fleet.
The platform signals a move to compete with Waymo, a self-driving car development company spun off from Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet's Waymo, which started an experimental service ferrying people around in its self-driving cars in Phoenix earlier this year, has been using Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans.
Since August, Tesla, Uber Technologies and Alphabet's Waymo have each lost executives who led their respective self-driving efforts.
Uber last month fired self-driving car executive Anthony Levandowski, yielding to mounting pressure in its court fight with Waymo after a judge concluded he took thousands of confidential files from the Alphabet unit.
Alphabet Inc's YouTube is rolling out its version of social media rival TikTok, a new short-form video service called Shorts, enabled within its video-sharing platform.
The four CEOs－Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai of Google's parent Alphabet, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook－were asked on Wednesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing investigating the practices of major US technology companies whether they believed the Chinese government was stealing intellectual property from US companies.
Facebook lost 7 percent, Google's parent company Alphabet was down by 5 percent and Twitter slid more than 5.5 percent.
Alphabet, Google's parent, said it plans to slow hiring, an indication that the strongest companies are cautious in the downturn.
Such structures are more often seen in technology companies such as Facebook, Alphabet and Alibaba.
com Inc, Netflix Inc and Alphabet Inc sliding between 1.3 percent and 4 percent.
The index mainly measures the performance of 20 stocks in internet-related businesses, including the top 10 publicly traded Chinese internet companies, such as Alibaba and Tencent, as well as their 10 largest listed United States counterparts, such as Amazon and Google's parent company Alphabet.
On Monday, Facebook was down 2.7 percent, Amazon off 3.1 percent, Netflix 6.5 percent lower and Google parent Alphabet off 2.6 percent.
com Inc, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc all saw declines.