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<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Its fiscal fourth-quarter sales and profits performance is attributed to growth in its cloud computing and office software businesses. File picture: Sean Gallup/Getty</p>

companies

Alphabet and Microsoft results beat Wall Street expectations

Alphabet's second-quarter profit exceeded forecasts, while Microsoft beat estimates for its fiscal fourth-quarter sales and profits

business

Google parent company see revenue rise

business

Google parent company Alphabet reports 'terrific quarter'

business

Google's parent company Alphabet records 'terrific start' to year

business

Google and Microsoft shares in fresh slump

business

Pay of Google CEO Sundar Pichai now tops $100m

Innovation will see Apple pull through

If ever the peculiarity of stock markets was ever illustrated, it may have been this week when, fresh from posting the highest quarterly profits of any company in history, Apple slipped from its perch as the world’s most valuable company.

Wed, 03 Feb, 2016

Google and Amazon grappling happily with maturity

Alphabet and Amazon are grappling happily with maturity. The $450bn (€399bn) holding firm for Google is returning lots more cash to shareholders.

Sat, 24 Oct, 2015

Angela Merkel tops power list for fifth year

Angela Merkel is the most powerful woman in the world in the annual Forbes’ 100 list for the fifth year in a row.

Thu, 28 May, 2015