News Corp vs Alphabet Inc.
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New York media and information (NASDAQ: NWSA); FY2025 $8.5B revenue, EBITDA record $1.4B+ (+14%), Foxtel sold to DAZN $2.1B (Dec 2024), WSJ 5.2M+ digital subs competing with Bloomberg for premium journalism and professional info.
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News Corporation is a New York City, New York-based global media and information services company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NWSA/NWS) — operating The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, HarperCollins Publishers, the New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, REA Group digital real estate, and realtor.com through Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and CEO Robert Thomson, reporting FY2025 revenues of approximately $8.5 billion with net income from continuing operations improving 71% to $648 million and Total Segment EBITDA increasing 14% to a record $1.4 billion+. News Corp emerged in its current form on June 28, 2013, when Rupert Murdoch separated the print, publishing, and information assets from the entertainment assets that became 21st Century Fox (now Fox Corporation). The company operates through five primary segments: Digital Real Estate Services (REA Group — the dominant Australian property portal — and Move, which operates realtor.com in the US), Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Factiva — $2.3 billion revenue in FY2024, up 14% YoY, with 5.2+ million digital-only subscriptions growing 16% YoY), Book Publishing (HarperCollins, one of the world's largest trade publishers), News Media (newspapers in the US, UK, and Australia), and Subscription Video Services (Foxtel sold to DAZN in December 2024 for $2.1 billion, completing the divestiture). In FY2024, News Corp reported $9.88 billion in revenue, with digital revenues accounting for approximately 36% of total.
Mountain View AI and digital advertising conglomerate (NASDAQ: GOOGL) $350B FY2024 revenue (+15%); Google Search 90%+ share, Google Cloud $43.2B (+30%), Gemini AI, DOJ monopoly ruling 2024.
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Alphabet Inc. is a Mountain View, California-based technology conglomerate — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component — operating as the holding company for Google (Search, YouTube, Google Ads, Gmail, Google Cloud, Android, Chrome, Maps, Play Store, Workspace), and Other Bets (Waymo autonomous vehicles, DeepMind AI research, Verily life sciences, Wing drone delivery, Google Fiber) through approximately 183,000 full-time employees. In fiscal year 2024, Alphabet reported revenues of $350 billion (+15% year-over-year), with Google Services (Search, YouTube, Google Play, subscriptions) generating $307 billion, Google Cloud generating $43.2 billion (+30%), and Other Bets $2.0 billion, while generating $100 billion in net income — reflecting Alphabet's position as one of the highest-profit companies in history, funded by Google Search's advertising monopoly (processing 8.5+ billion searches daily, commanding 90%+ global search market share). CEO Sundar Pichai has prioritized Alphabet's AI-first transformation: the 2024 launch of Gemini Ultra 1.0, Gemini 1.5 Pro (1 million token context window — largest at launch), and Gemini 2.0 Flash positioned Google as a competitive AI frontier model lab alongside OpenAI, following the ChatGPT disruption that temporarily threatened Google's search advertising dominance in 2023. Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform (enterprise AI model deployment with Gemini, Llama, and third-party models) and Google Distributed Cloud (air-gapped government cloud) compete directly with Microsoft Azure AI and AWS SageMaker for enterprise AI workload contracts. Waymo's commercial robotaxi operations in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (Waymo One — fully driverless rides, generating revenue and operational data) represent Alphabet's highest-upside long-duration investment.
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