Meta Platforms has outperformed the S&P 500 massively, due to cost-cutting and a growing activity on the family of apps. Alphabet got hit badly and is underperforming, due to the release of ChatGPT.

The Company Formerly Known as Google is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate. But at heart, it’s the same world-changing cash machine. Follow-Up Friday is our attempt to put the news into ...

Alphabet is much cheaper than it appears. A ton of cash and investments. Other bets - Moonshots and Unicorns. Google - the cash machine. I've probably never seen such a wide moat. Last month, I posed ...

University of Illinois linguistics professor Ryan Shosted remembers how his grandmother spoke while he was growing up in Salt Lake City. She pronounced “or” words as “ar,” he said. “Fork” became “fark ...

What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...