{"id":38312,"date":"2020-01-26T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=38312"},"modified":"2020-01-27T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:12:00","slug":"infographic-google-market-value-reaches-1t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=38312","title":{"rendered":"Infographic &#8211; Google Market Value Reaches $1T"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38313\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38313\" src=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista.jpg\" alt=\"Alphabet market cap\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista.jpg 640w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlphabetMarketCap_Statista-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Statista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>26 Jan. 2020. Earlier in January, the market value of Alphabet, parent company of Google, reached $1 trillion, the fourth technology company to reach that level. Business data research company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/15326\/google---alphabet-market-capitalization\/\">Statista<\/a> charts the rise of the company&#8217;s market value since 2004, when Google began trading its shares on the Nasdaq exchange, our bonus infographic this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc. was founded in 1998, and issued its initial public stock offering six years later. At the time of its IPO in August 2004, Google had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/m\/marketcapitalization.asp\">market capitalization<\/a> &#8212; computed as the total number of shares multiplied by share price &#8212; of $20 billion. On 16 January 2020, Alphabet&#8217;s shares closed at $1,450.16 a share bringing the company&#8217;s total market value to an even $1 trillion. On Friday, 24 January, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/GOOGL?p=GOOGL\">Alphabet&#8217;s shares<\/a> closed at $1,466.17.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet now joins Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft in the $1 trillion market cap club.<\/p>\n<p>More on Science &amp; Enterprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=38250\">Women Founders Again Raise Small Share of Venture Funds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=38140\">New Biotech Aims to Bring Down Drug Prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=37324\">Gene-Editing Biotech Gains $34M in Early Funds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business data research company Statista charts the rise of the company&#8217;s market value since 2004, when Google began trading its shares on the Nasdaq exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,86,23,24,78,19],"class_list":["post-38312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-software","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38314,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38312\/revisions\/38314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}