Google parent Alphabet sees record profit, plans $50-billion buyback

Microsoft profit soars amid surging cloud demand

Google’s results, showing a surge in ad sales related to travel and retail, offered a glimpse of online spending in a post-pandemic world: Businesses are boosting digital marketing to capture a public eager to resume something resembling normal life again.
 
Net profit jumped by 162 per cent to a record $17.9 billion in the three months to March as advertising revenue swelled by a third.
 
Google parent Alphabet said first-quarter revenue, excluding payments to distribution partners, came in at $45.6 billion, pummeling Wall Street estimates. The company also unveiled a $50-billion share share buyback, sending the stock up