Alphabet’s profit more than doubled last quarter as Google’s advertising business rebounded.
Alphabet posted revenue of $55.31 billion, up 34 percent from a year earlier, and net profit more than doubled to $17.93 billion in the first quarter. https://nyti.ms/2R5KKG2
The Orion capsule’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean moved NASA into the next stages of the Artemis program, which will rely on Elon Musk’s rocket company to build a moon lander for astronauts. https://nyti.ms/3YcuUYn
A committee took its first vote in the early afternoon, advancing a bill that would increase the money companies pay government agencies when getting some mergers approved. https://nyti.ms/3d7WhN7
Some of the industry’s critics are skeptical, however, about a new flexibility to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. https://nyti.ms/34ey2si
