Welcome to episode 292 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Jonathan are a dynamic duo, bringing you all the latest in news – and sound effects – because it’s earnings time! Plus we’ve got new from VS Code, Azure Data Studio, CodeBuild and more.
Titles we almost went with this week:
- ☁️The Cloud Pod Renames Cloud Earnings to ‘The Gulf of Capex’
- Sorry Elon, OpenAI Doesn’t Want Your Pocket Change
- MacOS gets into the Fastlane for Oil Changes
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General News
It’s earnings time!
01:29 Alphabet is planning to spend big on AI again this year, sending shares down
- Alphabet earnings were a bit of a let down with cloud revenue missing and their announcement of spending $75 Billion in CapEx (DeepSeek who?)
- Consolidated revenue rose 12% in the period to 96.5 billion.
- Capex investments of $75b shocked analysts who expected $57.9 billion.
- EPS was 2.15 vs 2.13.
- Revenue of 96.5 billion vs 96.62 expected.
- Ad revenue rose to 72.46 billion vs 71.3, Youtube advertising revenue was 10.47 billion vs 10.22 billion.
- Google Cloud was 12.0 billion vs expectation of 12.19 billion.
02:09 Jonathan – “I’m guessing ad revenue is gonna be down again, Q1, Q2 because I think a lot of ad revenue is driven by the election season. So that’s not looking too good for them.”
03:13 Microsoft GAAP EPS of $3.23 beats by $0.13, revenue of $69.6B beats by $790M
- Microsoft followed up with also weak growth in its Azure cloud computing unit.
- EPS was 3.23 beating expectations by 0.13
- Revenue of 69.6B beating by 780M
- Intelligent clo...
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