Google owner Alphabet becomes trillion-dollar company
by Kalyeena Makortoff from Technology | The Guardian on (#4Y1SJ)
Tech giant is the fourth US firm to achieve the valuation - after Microsoft, Apple and Amazon
Google's owner Alphabet has become a trillion-dollar company for the first time, making it only the fourth US firm to reach the bumper valuation.
Alphabet's value, based on the price of its Wall Street-listed shares, passed $1tn (776bn) in the final minutes of trading on Thursday night, with shares closing at a record high of $1,450.16 each.
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