Alphabet, a holding company that owns the American IT giant Google, announced on the 26th its financial results for the three months from January to March last month.
According to it, sales increased by 22% compared to the same period of the previous year to 68,011 million dollars, or about 8.6 trillion yen in Japanese yen.
On the other hand, the final profit decreased by 8% to 16,436 million dollars, or about 2.8 trillion yen in Japanese yen, resulting in an increase in sales and a decrease in profit.
Regarding this, Alphabet has a small increase in revenue from Internet advertising such as YouTube, a video posting site that has been driving business performance due to Corona, due to the full resumption of economic activities and intensifying competition with other companies such as "TikTok". It is said that the main factor is that it stayed at.
In addition, Microsoft, a major US IT company, announced its financial results for the three months up to last month on the 26th, with sales of 49.36 billion dollars, about 6.26 trillion yen in Japanese yen, at the same time of the previous year. Compared to that, it increased by 18%.
The final profit also increased by 8% to 16.728 billion dollars, or 2.1 trillion yen in Japanese yen, resulting in higher sales and profits.
In the background, after the Corona disaster, a hybrid work style that combines attendance and telecommuting has become established, and the cloud business for companies has been strong.