Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001652044-25-000043
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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Certain costs are not allocated to our segments because they represent Alphabet-level activities. These costs primarily include certain AI-focused shared R&D activities, including development costs of our general AI models; corporate initiatives such as our philanthropic activities; corporate shared costs such as certain finance, human resource, and legal costs, including certain fines and settlements. Charges associated with employee severance and office space reductions are also not allocated to our segments. Additionally, hedging gains (losses) related to revenue are not allocated to our segments.Our Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) is our Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai. Our CODM uses segment operating income (loss) to allocate resources to our segments in our annual planning process and to assess the performance of our segments, primarily by monitoring actual results versus the annual plan. Our operating segments are not evaluated using asset information.The following table presents revenue, profitability, and expense information about our segments (in millions): Three Months EndedMarch 31, 20242025Revenues:Google Services$70,398 $77,264 Google Cloud9,574 12,260 Other Bets495 450 Hedging gains (losses)72 260 Total revenues$80,539 $90,234 Operating income (loss):Google Services$27,897 $32,682 Google Cloud900 2,177 Other Bets(1,020)(1,226)Alphabet-level activities(2,305)(3,027)Total income from operations$25,472 $30,606 Supplemental information about segment expenses:Google Services:Employee compensation expenses$11,511 $11,337 Other costs and expenses30,990 33,245 Total Google Services costs and expenses$42,501 $44,582 Google Cloud:Employee compensation expenses$5,157 $5,412 Other costs and expenses3,517 4,671 Total Google Cloud costs and expenses$8,674 $10,083 Google Services and Google Cloud employee compensation expenses include the costs associated with direct and allocated employees. Google Services and Google Cloud other costs and expenses primarily include direct costs, such as advertising and promotional activities and third party services fees as well as allocated costs, such as technical infrastructure and office facilities usage costs. Additionally, Google Services other costs and expenses include content and traffic acquisition costs and device costs.See Note 2 for information relating to revenues