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Alphabet (GOOGL) has several branches, and Google is the branch that looks after its smart speaker business.

Alibaba (BABA) has returned -2.02% in the last month, 20.2% in the last 12 months, and 5.9% in the last five days.

Sonos, which went public earlier this month, uses Amazon’s Alexa digital agent in its smart speaker products.

Goldman Sachs (GS) believes Yandex (YNDX) will show a strong performance in the near future.

This article considers the prospects for China’s Baidu versus Google in the U.S. and Yandex in Russia.

Yandex (YNDX) recently rolled out its cloud computing service across Russia, following a limited launch in September.

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The U.S. and Europen Union are making good recovery The below graph reflects on going trends in the Gross domestic Product (GDP) growth rates in the U.S. and European Union, the major destinations of Chinese exports. With slow economic growth in the U.S., and the European Union gross domestic product (GDP) finally hitting positive territory […]

Facebook now shares Huawei’s ambition to challenge the dominance of Google’s Android, creating a huge risk for Google’s advertising business.

Alphabet stock has outperformed Baidu stock this year, but trails it this month. Yandex stock charged ahead of peers this year but is struggling this month.

Google was fined over Android, missed Huawei’s Mate 30 app distribution opportunity, and risks an Oracle penalty. And its challenges aren’t over.

Google and Fitbit stocks have moved in opposite directions since the companies’ merger deal, whose value isn’t affected by stock movements.

Google Fiber (GOOG) (GOOGL) announced this week that it has discontinued the 100Mbps plan and will now sell only the gigabit plan at $70/month.

Google’s (GOOGL) Nest Mini smart speaker makes its debut in India in time for holiday sales as Google hunts for non-advertising revenue.

Coach shares fell in June after the company said it will close 70 out of its 351 North American full-price stores by the end of the first half of 2015.

Wages in China are simply growing much faster than the overall economy, which fuels inflation and real estate bubbles when banks are willing lenders.

For Chinese banks, their exporting borrowers are seeing capacity utilization levels decline as the yuan rises.

The rich price earnings ratios of Baidu and Google of around 30 times versus Yandex at closer to 20 times, may suggest that they are vulnerable to shorter-term profit taking and multiple deflation in the case of further soft economic data.

The sharp rise in wages in China prompted some fairly aggressive forward-looking estimates regarding China’s wages in manufacturing and its ability to compete as a low-cost manufacturer in the future.

This article considers the growing wage level in China and its effect on Baidu and other Asian equities.

Given the declining gap between nominal and real interest rates, it may seem that China has cooled inflation, and perhaps cooled speculative investment as well.

This series examines the associated consumption growth trends in China, and considers the implications for Chinese companies like Baidu.

As the yuan rises, Chinese companies like Baidu may be on firmer earnings ground than many Chinese manufacturing firms and banks.

This article considers the prospects for the main Asian ETFs to break out of the doldrums in 2014.

This article considers the prospects for companies like Apple, Google, and Baidu in light of China’s headline PPI data, which don’t look so great.

Why the Russian crisis could escalate: Volatility spiked for the Russian stock market after February 22, 2014, when protesters ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and seized control of Kiev. This situation quickly worsened after March 18, 2014, when Putin annexed Crimea, sending the ruble from 34:1 to the dollar in June to 40:1 this week. […]

Google (GOOGL) seems uncomfortable with experts and critics’ involvement in the ongoing state-led antitrust problem of its business practices.

The Netherlands-headquartered Yandex is presenting tough competition to Google Inc. (GOOG) in Russia, as search engine yandex.ru is the largest Internet search service in Russia.

Russia has hit Google (GOOGL) with another fine. The latest fine adds to the many fines Russia has imposed on the search engine giant recently.

On September 23, Google introduced a subscription service for games and apps called Google Play Pass. A Play Pass subscription will cost $4.99 per month.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Waymo wants to bring its autonomous driving technology to the freight trucking industry. Waymo is one of Alphabet’s Other Bets.

Facebook’s planned digital currency, Libra, has elicited strong reactions. Some think it poses a serious risk to the global financial system.

Facebook is quietly building a messaging app called Threads, a companion app to Instagram. Instagram is FB’s photo-sharing app that competes with Snapchat.

Yesterday, federal prosecutors charged Anthony Levandowski with multiple counts of trade secret theft. Levandowski was previously an engineer at Waymo.

According to Canalys’s latest report, Baidu beat Google to become the world’s second-largest speaker company by market cap in the quarter.

Bernie Sanders said that if he becomes president, he wants to tax Google and Facebook’s ad revenues to pay for the revival of a new media industry.

Last Friday, Google made a move that looks like an attempt to call its troops to order, releasing new guidelines on debates about non-work topics.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google dominates the global search engine market.

The Russian government is demanding that Google immediately stop what it calls the advertising of illegal events in the country.

Google sees a huge commercial opportunity in Indonesia’s Internet economy. In this series, we’ll discuss these developments and others in the Internet space.

Baidu (BIDU) recently led an $87 million investment round in Chinese smart lock startup YunDing Network Technology.

Russia’s big tech companies such as Yandex (YNDX) have been shaken after a Russian lawmaker drafted a law to limit foreign ownership of these firms.

Google (GOOGL) has started taking preorders for its Stadia games subscription service that is scheduled to launch in November.

Alibaba’s (BABA) e-commerce joint venture with Russian entities MegaFon, Mail.ru Group, and Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF escalates its rivalry with Russia’s top Internet services company (YNDX).

This month could bring reconciliation for two technology powerhouses.

Yandex’s first-quarter earnings results will be the company’s first full-quarter financial results since it opened its cloud platform to everyone.

Baidu, China’s top Internet search engine company and a leader in AI research, sees AI technology changing how people use their smartphones.

Baidu (BIDU) will launch its self-driving taxi service in China before the end of 2019, according to a report from Xinhua News Agency.

Google (GOOGL) has suddenly disbanded the council it formed to advise it on ethical issues related to AI.

Facebook’s (FB) social apps suffered a worldwide outage that lasted for several hours in March.

Yandex (YNDX) appears to be struggling to keep its lead in Russia’s Internet search engine market.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is introducing a new feature designed to expand monetization options for Android developers.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google operations in Europe have been in the spotlight. France’s top competition watchdog has ordered Google to review its policies for certain advertisements following a complaint by French directory service company Amadeus.

Baidu’s (BIDU) reputation in the search business has been scrutinized. There was outrage about the quality of Baidu’s news search results.

The antitrust regulator in France recently ordered Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google to review its advertising policies.

Baidu’s (BIDU) Internet search service came under fire recently after an outspoken Chinese journalist complained about its news aggregating service, Baijiahao.

In addition to leveraging AI technologies to strengthen its core Internet search engine business, Baidu is also betting on AI to help it break into new markets.

Baidu’s technology has been adopted to power the driverless vans that will be used to deliver groceries to Walmart customers.

Twitter expects its capex to be in the range of $60 million–$85 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.

An adviser to the European Union’s top court has recommended that search engines shouldn’t be forced to apply the bloc’s so-called “right to be forgotten” principle globally.

Egypt isn’t happy with certain terms in Apple’s (AAPL) contract agreements with iPhone distributors in the country.

At a recent conference, PayPal (PYPL) CEO Dan Schulman said that the company’s platform strategy wasn’t just mobile-first but mobile-only.

PayPal (PYPL) has introduced its international money transfer service, Xoom, in Canada.

A prediction by RBC Capital Markets said the Alexa digital voice agent could bring $10 billion in revenues for Amazon by 2020.

Google’s regulatory filings cited by 9to5Google suggest the company may be preparing to release a smart speaker with a display.

Earlier this month, Yandex (YNDX) acquired on-demand fuel delivery startup Toplivo v Bak.

Facebook has $43.9 billion of cash on hand. The company’s price-to-cash-flow multiple is 21.7x, and its price-to-free-cash-flow multiple is 31.3x.

Facebook’s (FB) price-to-sales multiple was 12.5x in 2017, and its estimated price-to-sales multiple for 2018 is 9.8x.

The worldwide smart speaker market is projected to grow to $11.8 billion by the end of 2023 from an estimated $2.7 billion this year.

Yandex’s attempts to break into new markets beyond its core business of providing online search engine services are starting to make it look more like Amazon.

Snap (SNAP) has generated investor returns of 14.2% in the trailing-one-month period and -41.6% in the trailing-12-month period.

Alibaba (BABA) has returned 14.0% in the last month, 60.7% in the last year, and 0.69% in the last five days.

Twitter boasts a total economic or enterprise value (or EV) of $21.8 billion.

Yelp (YELP) boasted an enterprise value (or EV) of $2.9 billion in 2017.

Amazon (AMZN) has generated investor returns of -9.6% in the last month, 58.2% in the last 12 months, and 1.2% in the last five days.

Uber has folded its businesses in China and Russia, leaving these markets to Didi Chuxina and Yandex (YNDX), respectively.

Yandex (YNDX) and Google’s parent, Alphabet (GOOGL), have been reporting increasing costs and expenses quarter after quarter recently.

As an Internet search engine company, Yandex (YNDX) draws the vast majority of its revenues from online advertising services, a business that contributes about 90% of the company’s quarterly revenues.

Yandex (YNDX) and Sberbank are forming a joint venture based on Yandex’s e-commerce platform, Yandex.Market.

Yandex NV (YNDX) boasts an enterprise value (or EV) of $13.3 billion for 2017.

Internet search engine services are Yandex’s (YNDX) largest business and the foundation of its advertising business.

Yandex’s foreign earnings and liabilities denominated in other currencies are affected by fluctuations in the ruble’s value.

Uber’s Russian operation and Yandex to join hands Uber and Yandex (YNDX) have entered a deal to combine their Russian ride-sharing businesses. Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet company, will hold 59.3% of the joint venture, while San Francisco-based Uber will own 36.6%. Employees of the newly formed entity will own the remaining stake. Shares in the […]

While Uber operates in 633 cities around the world, it faces stiff competition from local companies like Careem in the Middle East, Grab in Southeast Asia, and Ola in India.

Although the broader market and tech sector were down yesterday, Internet stocks suffered a far steeper decline.

We’ve compared Yandex with other search engine stocks, such as Google (GOOG), Baidu (BIDU), Yahoo (YHOO), and Microsoft (MSFT).