{"id":1023293,"date":"2026-07-24T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023293"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:33:58","slug":"google-earnings-fine-print-record-profit-on-paper-first-ever-cash-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/google-earnings-fine-print-record-profit-on-paper-first-ever-cash-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Google earnings fine print: Record profit on paper, first-ever cash burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet burnt cash for the first time since it went public more than two decades ago, even as net income quadrupled to $112.1 billion, profiting not by search or cloud but by a paper windfall on minority stakes in Anthropic and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>The Google parent posted negative free cash flow of $5.86 billion for the three months to June, the first negative quarterly free cash flow in its history as a listed company, and lifted its capital spending guidance for the year to between $195 billion and $205 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Its shares fell about 3% in after-hours trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet burnt cash for the first time since it went public more than two decades ago, even as net income quadrupled to $112.1 billion, profiting not by search or cloud but by a paper windfall on minority stakes in Anthropic and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX. The Google parent posted negative free cash flow of $5.86 billion for the three months to June, the first negative quarterly free cash flow in its history as a listed company, and lifted its capital spending guidance for the year to between $195 billion and $205 billion. Its shares fell about 3% in after-hours trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023327,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023293\/revisions\/1023327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}